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Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Commie-Clobbering Kaiju GORGO "Deadlier Than Man" Conclusion

...well the scene in this Bill Montes-penciled and Ernie Bache-inked art doesn't actually, occur, but it's the perfect symbolic cover to visualize what's going on!

The Soviet Union is arming fellow Communist country Cuba with nuclear missiles.

However, an American trapped on the island manages to radio a warning to the American military, which results in the US warning the Russkies to stop what they're doing!
The Russkies refuse and things get tense!

Meanwhile two large kaiju, just minding their own business, are attracted to all the activity going on in the sea over them..

Did Gorgo and son stop the Cuban Missile Crisis from escalating?

Only these three (along with writer Joe Gill and artist Steve Ditko) know...and they ain't talking!

Next Week:
Another Marvel kaiju takes a crack at Commies!

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Monday, October 21, 2024

Commie-Clobbering Kaiju GORGO "Deadlier Than Man" Part 1

Besides Konga, another cinematic kaiju who battled Commies in comic pages was...

...who was also published by Charlton, and who was often illustrated by the legendary Steve Ditko!
Let's look in on the mother and son who frightened the world for 26 issues during the 1960s!

Don't worry, the kaiju cavalry is coming!

Good thing JFK didn't have to deal with kaiju along with the Cubans and Russians during the real-world Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, eh?

Writer Joe Gill and artist Steve Ditko continue their interpretation of those events from Charlton's Gorgo #14 (1963)...

TOMORROW!

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Monday, October 17, 2022

He's Coming...

...to theaters this Friday!

But, before that, we're doing a special four-day presentation of his origin (and only Golden Age appearance)...and his Bronze Age revival!
Be Here Tomorrow!!!
(because you really don't want to piss him off!)

Thursday, March 3, 2022

After You Go See THE BATMAN...

...you might want to check out these rarely-seen, amazingly-kool earlier versions of the Caped Crusader...

Batman vs 3 Villains of Doom!

...plus numerous other never-reprinted tales...
The Batman Meets The Shadow!

The Batman Meets The Shadow...Again!

Batman Meets Jerry Lewis!

Batman Returns to Being The Batman!

(Technically, this has been reprinted...but only in black-and-white!)

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

THE SHADOW "Who He Is and How He Came to Be!" Chapter 8

To Be Continued...?

Radio Comics' The Shadow was canceled as of this issue (#8 [1965]).

Whatever conclusion the anonymous writer had in mind will never be revealed.

In the early 1980s, I worked for JC Comics (which was based at the Archie Comics offices) and also assisted on a couple of the Red Circle superhero comics as needed.

I enquired of editor Victor Gorlick, whose career at Archie spanned decades, from the Golden Age up to his retirement in the early 2010s, if there was any unpublished Shadow material.

He said there once was, but it had "disappeared", and he didn't remember who had written the text pieces!

To Be Continued
TOMORROW

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