#atomic knights

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The Knight Atomic

Murphy Anderson

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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.

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Original Art - Strange Tales (1971)

Art by Murphy Anderson / Neal Adams

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the Atomic Knights in Outsiders #27

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Another tally in my “supervillains are just weird incels” book. Creating an entire post apocalyptic fantasy because you fell in love with your therapist and made it so she and her husband were siblings in your mind to explain away their matching surnames. Some dudes just cannot take a hint.

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Nightinggale’s Knight - Nor

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Osamu Tezuka year of the dragon greeting card (1976)

Happy new year!

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The AllStar Squadron / Pin Ups Dc Comics

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

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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.

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Justice Society of America house ad from August 1992

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“Days of future past”

Dick Giordano - Alex Savuik

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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.

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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

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JSA #2 cover by Alan Davis and Mark Farmer

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Superman calling out the ridiculousness of the Atomic Knights. Not only that, calling out the entire idea of idealistic post apocalypse fiction. If the bombs drop, nobody is going to be having any fun.