Upon Reflection - Helmets!

Here are nearly two dozen covers featuring the reflective helmet motif.

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Fin Fang Farce!

Above is the splash pages to the classic Atlas monster tale "Fin Fang Foom" by Stan "The Man" Lee, Jack "King" Kirby, and "Darin'" Dick Ayers.


Here is that splash page as reworked by Jim (Priest) Owsley, and with John Tartaglione inking over "King" Kirby's pencils. This version of the tale appeared in Crazy magazine.


I was planning to link to the story, but some of it seems to have gone away into the internet mists. Fortunately I saved it to my computer a while back and here it is in its entirety. I have little to say about this gem, but that even the mighty fall victim to satire. It's a hoot!














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Captain Zero!

The three covers for Captain Zero are arresting images. I like the way the hands are different from the rest of the painted image. It really serves to make the covers pop. These are the only three issues of Captain Zero. Here's a link with more on the enigmatic hero and also some reprints.

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Introducing Radioactive Man!

Radioactive Man if Sturdy Steve Ditko had imagined him.

Steve Ditko
Bill Morrison
I really like how Morrison copies the texture of the original Captain Atom costume.

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Introducing Captain Atom!

1960








That's one of the neatest origin stories in all of comics. And yes the outfit was blue in that first tale. Steve Ditko and Joe Gill were at the top of their games when they created this iconic Atom-Age hero in Space Adventures #33 from 1960.

1965
The story was reprinted later in Strange Suspense Stories #75 which after three issues of Captain Atom reprints became Cap's own magazine in the 1960's.

1978
It was reprinted by Charlton again in the late 1970's in a revived run of Space Adventures.

2004
Prototype Cover
DC Comics reprinted the story in its first Action Hero Archives some years ago in this decade.



Above are a some reprints of the classic cover image.


This story would take at least six months and as many issues of a full comic to tell today and it would still lack the power of this Charlton gem.


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