Russkie-Smashers CAPTAIN ATOM II "An Ageless Weapon"

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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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Russkie-Smashers ATOMIC ATTACK! "Tomorrow's War!"

RUSSKIES!

In 1953, we thought we'd still be fighting them in the not-so-distant future...

... of 1972!

Now that's scary!

This wild tale was from the first issue of a "future war" title from the 1950s called Atomic Attack!

(It was called simply Attack for it's first four issues and added "Atomic" to the title as of the fifth issue, so the first issue of Atomic Attack was #5!)

Oddly, only the lead story in each issue was future-based!

The other tales were set in contemporary (Korean War) times!
Sadly, because the publisher, Youthful Publications, is long defunct and left no successor company, there are no records of the writer or artist(s) for this story!

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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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