Monday Monster Madness DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN, and "WEREWOLF"...as SUPERHEROES???

we warned you...

Our "brother" RetroBlog, Hero Histories, has the complete runs of the swinging Sixties superhero incarnations of Frankenstein, Dracula, and WolfMan, (which was retitled "Werewolf" due to trademark conflicts).

Did you know writer/editor DJ Arneson and artist Tony Tallarico put Universal Monster SuperHero Universe references within the three series?
Was a crossover team-up or battle planned...but not published?

If that doesn't scare your pants off, nothing will!

Click on the links...
Frankenstein
Dracula
WereWolf
It's Up to You to Decide if this is our Treat to you...or a Trick!!!

Read THE SHADOW: DESTINATION MOON

The never-reprinted, final Maxwell Grant Shadow novel from 1967,

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

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The Shadow: Destination Moon

by

Maxwell Grant

(Dennis Lynds)
Out of print for over a half-century!

It's the FINAL COUNTDOWN...

...as The Master of Darkness faces off against CYPHER in final combat...

..in the final, never-reprinted "Maxwell Grant" novel!
Start the week with Chapter 13 on Monday at...

HERO HISTORIES

...then follow the links at the end of each chapter!

You're ENJOYING The Shadow: Destination Moon SO Much...

...that we're increasing the re-presentation of this never-reprinted final "Maxwell Grant" novel...

 ...from three entries per week to six, with two posts each on Hero Histories, Atomic Kommie Comics, and Crime and Punishment during the two remaining weeks before Labor Day!

Start the week on Monday with Chapter 7 at...

HERO HISTORIES

...then follow the links at the end of each chapter!

Monday Madness RIOT "The Shadower"

"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?"

Not this guy...

...as demonstrated in this never-reprinted tale from Atlas Comics' MAD clone, Riot #1 (1954)!

Though the writer of this satire of The Shadow radio show is unknown, odds are it was Stan Lee, who was writing almost everything at this point.

The illustrator is extremely well-known...Gene Colan!

This was not the first time The Shadow had been spoofed, since EC's MAD ran their own take on the character in #4 (1953) as shown HERE.

(It was even the cover feature!)

You'll note in this tale "The Shadower" doesn't have the usual cloak, slouch hat, and aquiline nose we associate with the character...

Art by Frank Robbins

In fact, he looks a lot like the Archie Comics version from a decade later...1964...

Art by John Rosenberger

...who, at least initially, was primarily-based on the radio show, but updated to the spy-oriented Sixties!

BTW, if you want more The Shadow stuff, have a look at our current Summer RetroBlog Blogathon participants...

CRIME & PUNISHMENT

...where we're re-presenting the Dark Avenger's never-reprinted 1970s-created, but 1940s-set adventures featuring art by Frank Robbins and E R Cruz.

AND

HERO HISTORIES

...where we began the re-presentation of the never-reprinted, final "Maxwell Grant" Shadow novel from the Swinging Sixties!

What is the Startling, Sinister Secret of THE SHADOW: DESTINATION MOON?

Only You Know Who Knows!

Here's a tantalizing taste of what's to come...

Begin the never-reprinted Swinging (and spy-filled) Sixties Adventure...

TODAY

at

HERO HISTORIES!

And
Witness the final, never-reprinted chapter of The Shadow's 1970s adventures by Golden/Silver/Bronze Age great Frank Robbins on Monday at...

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT!
Plus:

Also on Monday, a never-reprinted tale of

BRUCE LEE

...in a world where he lived to the present-day, at...

POP ART MARTIAL ARTS!

Now is this a Summer Blogathon, or what???

RetroBlogs' Summer Blogathon Welcomes...the Memory of Bruce Lee!

With the 50th Anniversary of Bruce Lee's passing last week...

...we began a re-presentation of an almost half-century old graphic novel about his life!

And that story continues, tomorrow, at...

POP ART MARTIAL ARTS!

Meanwhile, the never-reprinted Silver Age tales of The Shadow continue with our last contribution to the re-presentation of his blue/green spandex adventures at

HERO HISTORIES

...followed by another never-reprinted tale of the Bronze Age stories of the classic Pulp/radio version at

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

There's no summer break for our RetroBlogs Summer Blogathon!

Double Your Summer Fun with Double The Shadows!

What's better than an adventure of The Shadow unseen for half a century?

How about TWO adventures?

First, the guy with the gadgets and blue/green spandex faces off against the evil descendants of both Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun on Monday at

HERO HISTORIES

...then, the "classic" 1940s pulp/radio version faces off against a bootlegger mob led by an an acrobatic, athletic mastermind in a fight to the death over Niagara Falls on Thursday in

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

The heat is on for crime this summer!

Friday Fun RICHIE RICH "Military Mix-Up"

The Dreaded Deadline Doom caught us this week...

...so enjoy this carry-over from our brother RetroBlog, Hero Histories, featuring The Poor Little Rich Boy kicking Russkie butt in this tale from Harvey's Richie Rich #51 (1966)!

Whatta guy!

And he didn't even have to become Super-Richie/Rippy...

...to do it!

(If you think there's a lot of Spider-Man or Batman titles out now...and there are quite a few...it's nothing compared to Richie Rich at his peak, when there were...take a deep breath...

32 simultaneous monthly, bi-monthly and quarterly Richie Rich Universe titles!
And that's not including Casper, Sad Sack, and all the other non-Richie Rich Harvey titles! 

You read that right, True Believer!
By the way, they were all selling better than almost everything Marvel and DC has out there now!

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Richie Rich

The RetroBlog Summer Blogathon Continues with TWICE the Shadows in ONE Week!

First, the campy costumed crusader from the Swinging Sixties..

...takes on a glowing goniff (that's Yidddish for "criminal") Monday thru Wednesday at

HERO HISTORIES!

Then, on Thursday and Friday...

...the cloaked crimebuster from the Film Noir Forties take on a family of homicidal lunatics at

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT!

Dare you miss such unbridled excitement???

The RetroBlog Summer Blogathon Begins with Tales of TWO Shadows!

When You Think of The Shadow...

...this is how you envision him, right?

Well, in the 1960s, Jerry (Superman) Siegel re-envisioned him for Archie Comics!

Oddly enough, this was a year before the campy Batman TV series debuted, so it wasn't done in response to the ensuing "Bat-Mania", as many today believe!

And, for heavens sake, who came up with the blue/purple and green color scheme?

Note: the first two issues of the comic...

...written by Robert Bernstein and illustrated by John Rosenberger, hewed much closer to the then-new Shadow paperback novels put out by Belmont Books which the guys who owned Archie Comics also owned (talk about "corporate synergy")...

...and put him squarely in the world of secret agents/spies popularized by James Bond books and movies!
But the book took an abrupt turnabout with the third issue, as Jerry Siegel and artist Paul Reinman took over the title for the remainder of the run!
Note: Siegel and Reinman also assumed creative duties on the entire Archie superhero line which included Adventures of the Fly/Fly-Man/Mighty Comics and Mighty Crusaders!
Join us tomorrow at...

Hero Histories

...as we begin our weekly re-presentation of these never-reprinted comic (and comical) curiosities!

But wait!

There's more!
Each week, the day after the conclusion of the 1960s Shadow story, go to...
Crime and Punishment
...to see never-reprinted tales from The Shadow's 1970s DC run!

Compare and contrast, True Believer!

The RetroBlogs Summer Blogathons Return with TWO Themes...

First up is

The Summer of...The Shadow!

We're re-presenting not one, not two, but three never-reprinted decades-old series featuring He Who Knows...you know the rest!

The remainder of the never-reprinted non-Mike Kaluta-illustrated issues of the 1970s Shadow comic series (we already ran one HERE) written by Denny O'Neil and Michael Uslan, featuring art by Frank Robbins and ER Cruz in
Crime & Punishment!
 

The remainder of the never-reprinted, campy,1960s Shadow "costumed superhero" series written by Jerry Siegel and illustrated by Paul Reinman. (and, yes, we already ran several of them HERE, HERE, and HERE) published by Archie Comics, in

Hero Histories

And, because the response to our previous prose novel presentations was so positive, we're going to run the last original novel under the "Maxwell Grant" pseudonym (though it was really genre novelist Dennis Lynds, not Shadow creator Walter Gibson) through three RetroBlogs...
Hero Histories
Crime and Punishment
and here at
Atomic Kommie Comics!
Plus, we're returning to a blog we've inadvertently-neglected this past year with a festival featuring the greatest martial arts performer of all time...

at

Pop Art Martial Arts!

Plus:

We've been doing "theme months" at

True Love Comics Tales!

July will of the month of...

...with re-presentations of never-reprinted tales from both the 1960s Dell comic (above), and the 1980s Marvel/Star comic!

And, the final July post (after the Barbie movie opens on July 21st) will be about a 1960s comic created to tie-in with a competitor's line of fashion dolls!

If we weren't doing these re-presentations, we'd be the first in line to read them!
The Summer Fun begins
July 3rd!

Before Aquaman! Before Sub-Mariner! The FIRST Aquatic Super-Hero...THE SHARK!

For Discovery Channel's Shark Week, we're presenting...

...(awww, you guessed) at our "brother" RetroBlog, Hero Histories!

Monday Military Madness D-DAY with Blackhawk, Sgt Fury and Sgt Rock!

It was damned crowded at Normandy Beach on June 6, 1944!

Blackhawk and his team were there, battling (what else?) giant Nazi war machines and revealing their secret origin!

Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos were there (although the cover was a "cheat", since they swam in using SCUBA gear a couple of nights before, knocked out Nazi defenses and communications, then proceeded to the invasion site)!

And Sgt Rock was there, leading Easy Company into the thick of it!

Click on the links to enjoy!