Russkie-Smashers CAPTAIN ATOM II "An Ageless Weapon"

When You Need Vitally-Important Defense Plans Safely-Delivered...

...Only One Man Can Do the Job...Guaranteed!

Written by Joe Gill and illustrated by Steve Ditko, this is a short-but-sweet tale from Charlton's Space Adventures #39 (1961) about beating the Commies at their own game of deceit and deception by utilizing something...or rather someone...they don't expect!

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Russkie-Smashers SPACE ADVENTURES "Captain Atom II '...on Planet X' "

Despite the misleading title, Our Russkie-Smashing Hero never leaves Earth orbit...

...as you'll see in this tale from Charlton's Space Adventures #36 (1960)!

WOW!

Writer Joe Gill and illustrator Steve Ditko jammed a lot into just five pages!

These days, that'd be a whole issue, if not a two-parter!

As you saw, "Planet X" was, in fact, an artificial satellite, not another planet!
But the code-name made for a catchy title for an extremely-action-packed tale, eh?

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Reading Room THE SHADOW "Showdown on Gargoyle Island!"

The Shadow is Losing to the One Foe He Can't Defeat...

...an artificially-enhanced man equipped by Shiwan Khan to resist the Shadow's ability to "cloud men's minds"!

There was one more camp-classic issue of The Shadow, and we  presented it several years ago HERE, HERE, and HERE.
It's the only issue of the series without Shiwan Khan!

You can also read the somewhat less-campy first issue (by writer Robert Bernstein and artist John Rosenberger) on this blog by clicking HERE, HERE, and HERE!
We haven't done #2 yet, but we'll get to it soon!

PLUS: You can read the text feature revamping The Shadow's origin that ran through all eight issues of the comic series by clicking HERE....which leads us into...

...our presentation of the never-reprinted final "Maxwell Grant" Shadow novel from the 1960s which begins...

MONDAY!

But, before that...

Thursday, head to...

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

for another never-reprinted comic tale featuring the pulp/radio, slouch-hatted, twin .45 automatic-wielding Shadow we know and love!

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Reading Room THE SHADOW "The Shadow's Amazing New Weapons!"

We Have Already Seen...

You gotta admit, scripter Jerry Siegel does know how to recap a story!

Should I point out that a radioactive power source sitting near someone's genitals for hours at a time could render that person sterile?

Nah...

To Be Concluded...

TOMORROW!

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Reading Room THE SHADOW "The Shadow Battles...the Brute!

How so you stop a foe who's unaffected by your weapons or super-powers?

That's the question our campy cloaked crusader has to answer...before it's too late!

Since Shiwan Khan can't find worthy (aka people who won't turn against him) allies, he decides to go the "do it yourself" route and build one in this never-reprinted tale from Archie's The Shadow #7 (1965)! 

To Be Continued...

TOMORROW!

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Reading Room THE SHADOW "The Shadow vs The Shadow"

When Last We Left The Shadow...

I'm going to let writer Jerry Siegel fill you in on what's going on...with the minor point he leaves out that Lamont Cranston is presently a prisoner of the villainous descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun...

And the baddies get away...again!

THURSDAY...

Visit Our "Brother" RetroBlog

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

for a never-reprinted tale of the cloaked 1940s pulp/radio Shadow created in the 1970s!

Then, return here on MONDAY as our campy cloaked crusader takes on another weird foe...and, of course, Shiwan Khan!

(Doesn't Khan have anybody else he can bug for an issue or two?)

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