Monday Madness ATOM-AGE COMBAT "Hungry Moss"

Here's a story from the 1950s that might've inspired the 1960s cult flick The Green Slime!

This tale from the fifth (and final) issue of the 1952-53 comic book Atom-Age Combat is one of only three stories in the entire series with actual sci-fi or alien elements!
Most of the tales were of the World War III / Atomic War type showing a long-feared "US vs the Russian and/or Chinese Commies" war using advanced technology and limited nuclear weaponry.

While the writer is unknown, the art is by longtime war comics artist Dick Ayers, best-known for Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos.

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Friday Fun ATOM-AGE COMBAT "Three Rocketeers"

No, not this Jack Kirby-created team...

...but another trio with a slightly-different take on living "la vida stellar"!

(St John's Atom-Age Combat V1N2 [1952])

(St John's Atom-Age Combat V1N3 [1952])

Illustrated (and probably written) by Vic Martin, these never-reprinted strips featuring Dr Gastro, Rhonda, and Torpo appeared in the otherwise deadly-serious title Atom-Age Combat, one of several comics of the early 1950s that featured a near-future USA involved in atomic warfare with Commies...in this case, Asian (presumably Chinese) Communists!

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Reading Room ATOM-AGE COMBAT "Puzzle"

Besides tales of the US and USSR fighting World War III...

...Atom-Age Combat featured tales of combat versus aliens on other worlds, as well!

Note: the last page was the inside back cover of the comic, so it's just black-and-white.

Illustrated by Dick Ayers, this tale from Fago's Atom-Age Combat #3 (1959) touches on an interesting idea.

Someone's keeping us from leaving Earth...but they're also keeping others from approaching Earth!

Were they protecting us from them...or them from us?

Since this was the final tale in the final issue of the series, we'll never know the answer...

BTW, this was the second series called "Atom-Age Combat"!

The first was published by St John Comics with five issues in 1952-53 and a one-shot in 1958.

Fago Publications bought the title when St John dropped it's comic line, continuing the numbering from the one-shot and producing two issues.

Fago itself only lasted from 1958-59.

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Design of the Week: Atom-Age Combat!

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another.
This week: Relations with Russia are becoming frosty again, so let's celebrate with a classic comic book cover from the 1950s, when the Cold War was about to go nuclear-hot!

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Reading Room: ATOM-AGE COMBAT "Science Assaults the Death Sphere"

Normally, we'd post an Atom-Age Combat story in our "brother" blog...

...War: Past, Present & Future™, but this tale is derived from a story we posted earlier this month, as seen HERE!

This is actually the third publication of this story!

The first one, shown HERE, was in Dynamic's Scoop Comics #1 (1941).

The second was a reprint in Dynamic's Dynamic Comics #11 (1944).

But this version, rewritten, relettered, and recolored, appeared in St John's Atom-Age Combat #2 (1952).

Publisher/comic book packager Harry Chester was an extremely-frugal man, able to squeeze every last penny out of anything he paid for, and such reuse of existing artwork wasn't unusual in the comics industry, where a packager could re-sell the same art to two (or more) publishers, and no one would be the wiser.

In fact, Chester could re-do the same story several times, as shown with a tale that used the same artwork with three seperate stories and characters HERE, HERE, and HERE!

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