ATOMIC WAR! "Arctic Assault"

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We return to a potential near future (the 1960s as seen in 1952)...

 ...where the Cold War became hot when Russia launched a sneak attack on the US and NATO with nuclear weapons!

Could Draft-dodger and current National Security Advisor candidate John Bolton have been inspired by this never-reprinted tale of aerial atomic action in the Arctic from Ace's Atomic War #4 (1953)?

Bolton would've been 5 or older when he read this issue at home or at the local barber shop, or in his friends' collections (presuming he had any friends)

The writer is unknown, but the illustrator was Ken Rice who rendered the bulk of the stories in both Atomic War! and World War III!

See you soon...

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 ...for all your radiation-proof 
uniform and equipment needs!

SPACE BUSTERS "Charge of the Battle Women"

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Space is the place for battle...

It's a fascinating look at male-female relationships as shown in comic books of the 1950s, proving those Lois Lane comics and their attitudes towards women weren't an aberration.

BTW, you'll notice the Amazons on the comic's cover (shown above) are wearing considerably less...armor! ;-)

Until next time...

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 SpaceBusters

Supply Depot!

which also features SpaceMan Jet!

SPACE BUSTERS "Empress of Belzar"

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Think Don the John was the first to consider militarizing "Space, the Final Frontier"?

SpaceBusters was a war comic set in the future.
Think of it as a less-sophisticated version of Starship Troopers, sorta "Sgt Fury or Sgt Rock in Space" with "spacebusters" being slang for front-line soldiers, much like "dogface" or "leatherneck"!
Interestingly, it featured a woman (albeit noncombatant) as part of the front-line team.
As to the plot...Belzar has invaded our Solar System, managing to conquer Mars, with Earth next in line.
However, Earth's military is about to launch a counter-attack...

The art for this tale from Ziff-Davis' Space Busters #1 (1952) was by Bernie Krigstein, who went on to do astounding work at EC Comics before leaving the business for commercial art and teaching at New York's High School of Art & Design.
We're re-presenting this entire never-reprinted series every Wednesday...including a couple of stories that ran in other titles after the book was cancelled!
Don't miss them!

Until next time...

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Check out the

SpaceBusters

Supply Depot!

which also features SpaceMan Jet!

Long Before Don the John's "Space Force", There Were SPACE BUSTERS!

Was Don (the John) Trump inspired by this comic about "space Marines" from his childhood?

Find out next Wednesday, when we begin a digitally-remastered, complete, weekly re-presentation of this never-reprinted series from the 1950s!