#atomic knights

[wanderingmind867]

So, Superman accidentally busts a STAR Labs Conspiracy where they left a man inside a suspended animation apocalyptic simulation. I initially came to this comic just to start on reading Ambush Bug, but now i'm finishing some stuff in DC Comics Presents and The Brave and The Bold. (DC Comics Presents #57):

[cantsayidont]

Sometimes, I think about the huge number of DC properties that will never see media adaptations beyond the Easter eggy variety (like the DC SHOWCASE animated shorts or guest appearances on something like BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD) due to corporate dysfunction — not the big-name superhero stuff, but things like:

KAMANDI, which could make a magnificent animated series.

ATOMIC KNIGHTS, which is less stupid than FALLOUT and has giant mutant Dalmatians the characters ride as steeds.

SILVERBLADE, a charming mid-80s "Maxi-Series" by Cary Bates and Gene Colan about a retired movie star who gains the supernatural power to transform himself into any character he's ever played.

STANLEY AND HIS MONSTER, a delightful kids' comic about a boy who adopts a huge red shaggy monster that his parents (who never actually see the monster) patiently assume is his imaginary friend.

CAMELOT 3000, a sci-fi spin on the Knights of the Round Table with King Arthur reincarnated in a high-tech 31st century world and transgender Sir Tristan.

Then I remind myself that at best, they'd just be reduced to the same hackish nerd show pablum as the various Arrowverse shows (probably by the same hacks), and that, as with STAR WARS and STAR TREK, an abundance of crap can very easily make something too infuriating to even bother hate-watching. So, maybe it's for the best.

[splooosh]

The Knight Atomic

Murphy Anderson

[browsethestacks]

Original Art - Strange Tales (1971)

Art by Murphy Anderson / Neal Adams

[dailydccomics]

the Atomic Knights in Outsiders #27

[tothesolarium]

Nightinggale’s Knight - Nor

[burakku-jakku]

Osamu Tezuka year of the dragon greeting card (1976)

Happy new year!

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[vincentvega0721]

The AllStar Squadron / Pin Ups Dc Comics

[evilhorse]

Justice Society of America house ad from August 1992

[evanzzz3]

did u guys see that new pv omg.. we're eating good in 2024

[felis-rach]

Astro boy fanweek day 3 - Lonely | different | starlight

You placed me at the end of your sword, but I am not your enemy. Let us fight for this world together.

[craniozito]

How about I start the side blog with this post? If you are a fan of Osamu Tezuka you must know that he was friends with one of the greatest Brazilian comic artists, Mauricio de Sousa.

I didn't see anywhere other than Brazilian sources commenting on this.

A few years ago MSP (Mauricio de Sousa Produções) was going to finish a story about the Amazon rainforest that Tezuka was writing but with his passing the manga is incomplete, but MSP never touched in the subject since, the project will probably never be completed, I believe it is in limbo.

The only project with the Amazon rainforest that actually happened is the crossover between Turma da Mônica and the Tezuka characters.

The editions I have:

Source about the amazon rainforest manga: JBOX

[cantsayidont]

Here are some older comics that DC easily could and really should put back into print, and yet doesn't because they have a dismissive and contemptuous attitude toward their own vast catalog. In no particular order:

The Silver Age Hawkman stories by Gardner Fox, Joe Kubert, and Murphy Anderson from THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD, MYSTERY IN SPACE, and the first 20 issues of HAWKMAN. Everyone agrees that Joe Kubert's Silver Age stories in THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD are really the defining Hawkman run, and DC remastered all of this stuff for the old HAWKMAN ARCHIVES. They could very easily repackage the stories from the first two Archives as a single HAWKMAN: THE SILVER AGE volume, and I'm astonished they didn't do that to coincide with the terrible BLACK ADAM movie.

The contents of Crisis on Multiple Earths: The Crossovers, two TPBs released in the late '00s to go along with the JLA/JSA crossovers in CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS (which DC has recently repackaged and reissued), featuring early crossovers between Earth-1 and Earth-2 characters like the Flash, the Atom, and Green Lantern.

Jack Kirby's The Losers from OUR FIGHTING FORCES, an interesting run that drew on Kirby's own experience in the Army during WW2. DC remastered and reprinted these issues in HC in 2009 (along with almost everything else Kirby ever did for DC, including his Manhunter, Boy Commandos, and Newsboy Legion stories of the '40s with Joe Simon) and then immediately let it fall out of print. They could easily do another printing, ideally omitting the 2009 volume's introduction by a certain English sex pest.

The Atomic Knights stories by John Broome and Murphy Anderson, a weirdly chipper, very imaginative, beautifully drawn post-apocalyptic sci-fi series from STRANGE ADVENTURES. DC reprinted this in 2008 in a color HC, and then in B&W in SHOWCASE PRESENTS THE GREAT DISASTER, but then let it fall back into obscurity.

The entire run of Adam Strange stories from SHOWCASE and MYSTERY IN SPACE. DC reprinted all of the Gardner Fox/Carmine Infantino stories in color in three volumes of ADAM STRANGE ARCHIVES, and then in a single hugely expensive ($150) rare hardcover that also included the subsequent Lee Elias stories (some of which were written by Jerry Siegel). The Infantino stories have some of Infantino's finest artwork and design from the height of his artistic abilities, and it would be nice to have them available without needing a bank loan to buy or a forklift certification to handle the compilation.

All the Silver and Bronze Age Legion of Super-Heroes stories. DC has already remastered ALL of the Silver Age and Bronze Age Legion stories, which previously appeared in a record 13 volumes of the HC Archives, and then let most of it fall out of print for upwards of 15 years. For a while, it looked like they were going to start reprinting the Archives on a two-for-one basis as LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: THE SILVER AGE, but they did one volume and gave up. The early Jerry Siegel/Edmond Hamilton stories are admittedly an acquired taste, but the Jim Shooter/Curt Swan run are among the best-ever superhero comics, and that those stories (which remain foundational to every subsequent iteration of the Legion) have now been out of print for longer than some Tumblr users have been alive is positively shameful.

There are (many) other things I think they also ought to properly reprint, but the above material has already been retouched and recolored, and, barring some accident in the intervening years, DC almost certainly still has the digital assets lying around somewhere. They just don't have a strategy or any apparent interest in most of their own library.

[splooosh]

“Days of future past”

Dick Giordano - Alex Savuik

[dcdreamblog]

Ok top 5 hottest mystery men, and don't deny you have preference! We've seen your posts!!!

This is entrapment. I'm calling my lawyer... ... ...Ground rules. I'm taking mystery men to mean men and women here, because I'm not making two lists. I'm also only putting in the running people as they existed during the Squadron's heyday. I'm not going to come out here and simp for a bunch of heroes who are still active and nominally in my dating bracket because that is WEIRD

Yes that means Sandy is not on this list, which is why you asked. My revenge is petty but final. 5. Sandra Knight AKA The Phantom Lady.

(A popular war bond pinup of Knight)

YES ITS CLICHE BUT WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT FROM ME? Sandra Knight is a woman who is known for 2 things. Being stubborn as a mule and for wearing the kind of costume that caused spontaneous nosebleeds in a mile radius around her. She's confidently flirtatious, fiery in her conviction and if she was wearing any less she'd be on a list. You look at her legs in this picture and I dare you. I DARE YOU to judge me. Sometimes the obvious answer is obvious for a reason.

4. Al Pratt AKA The Atom.

(A photograph of Pratt taken during a JSA address in Washington DC)

He is 5'1" and every single millimeter of it is home grown BEEF. He is the Charles Atlas story made manifest. Kind, polite and well meaning but with the heart of lion. He's the kind of guy who would bring you out to the lake and ask you to go steady after knocking your bully flat on his ass with one punch. If you like the Archie type of carrying your books for you and laying his jacket in a mud puddle chivalry AND you want the kind of man who looks like he could bend a motorcycle in half with his thighs. He is the WHOLE package.

3. Susan Barr nee Kent AKA Bulletgirl

(An image of Kent from the cover a war bond comic) This is probably my most "hear me out" answer if only because she's much less well known unless you happen to be from Fawcett City. Is it the legs (pardon me "gams") that go all the way up? Yes.

Is it the classy, wavy chocolate brown hair that seems to shimmer like running water? Yes.

Is it the kind of classic silver screen movie star pretty that leaves your heart thumping visibly out of your chest like Bugs Bunny? Yes.

I've had a crush on Bulletgirl since I was a child, my first deep dive into any Golden Ager was a report I wrote in middle school about her just so I could devour every ounce of information that was publically available at this time. This one is an innocent school boy puppy crush which makes me feel better about putting a woman who was publically married during the war on this list. But only barely.

2. Greg Saunders AKA Vigilante

(A photograph of Saunders taken during a 7 Soldiers parade, 1945)

Hand me a puffy pink fan, paint a beauty mark on my left cheek and hold me up because I am now a fainting southern belle being swept off her feet by the handsome stranger and his mysterious ways.

He's got a motorcycle, he's good with kids, he has his own rope. And lest we not forget he's also an internationally famous, genre redefining country western singer. I know its before the time of most of you but have you HEARD this man? That accent, that harmony, every single thing about his voice feels like melting into a crackling south western bonfire

Oh lordy I am coming down with a case of the vapors.

Jonathan Chambers AKA Johnny Quick

(A rendering of Chambers from the poster of "The Squadron" motion picture, 1970) ...listen. LISTEN. ...I have this thing about bitchy men. Not mean men, not abusive men. No, just bitchy men. A man who will make a snide comment in my ear, or giggle with me in the back of some blowhard's speech, or come up with a little pet name he trots out a little too casually in front of my colleagues and then sweeps me off of my feet and treats me to rose petals and candles. I want a man who will make me steam like a clam bake and then right when I'm about to break a chair over his head he gets down on one knee and breaks out an absurd bouquet of roses. I want a man who I want to strangle and then who I want to marry inside the space of an hour. I have a THING. About bitchy men

[dailyjsa]

JSA #1 cover by Alan Davis and Mark Farmer