Post Your Anti-Communist Comics! 8 8

[TakinShotsToQuit]

Sorry, no gold...1968

 

 

 

 

 

[ciorac]

Thanks for the interior shots on that one "shots", cool stuff!

[selegue]

Holy Fudd -- fantastic.

The slavering commie spider is over the top!

From "American Security Council Press" -- any idea who was behind them? John Birch Society?

I'll have to watch for this book. Apparently there was an earlier edition (according to Overstreet).

 

Thanks,

Jack

 

Sorry, no gold...1968

[Silver Surfer]

[bluechip]

Here's a new addition. This one looks like a more obscure addition to an "atomic" collection but it fits in the anti-commie realm as well because it's foreign mad scientist is clearly modelled after Nikita Kruschev -- who was well known at the time, 1950, even though he would not take over the USSR until he finally managed to kill Stalin a few years later.

 

Story ends up with the weapon overloading and causing an atomic explosion. kir Durango throws the weapon into a pool of quick sand saying he just hopes we never develop something like this again in the future.

 

 

Edited November 20, 2006 by bluechip

[esquirecomics]

But this is probably the creme de la creme of them all, as far as I know. I won it recently on e-bay for $385.

 

 

The e-bay seller wrote the following in his description:

 

You are seeing a comic book that many thought did not exist. This is the cover of IF AN A-BOMB FALLS. This COLD WAR CIVIL DEFENSE COMIC BOOK was produced in 1951, at the height of ATOMIC PARANOIA.

 

The rarity of this comic book cannot be overstated. This comic book is not even supposed to exist. According to an authoritative article about this publisher:

 

If an A-Bomb Falls (U S Government, 1951, 8 pages) Rare. Designed as a brochure, but only published as a color strip on the front page of the Washington Post in July 1951. Only a few hand bound copies of the brochure were made. 2 copies are believed to exist.

 

Well, here is another copy of this rare comic book. Perhaps this copy was hand-bound and assembled and distributed by the Civil Defense Directors of RALEIGH COUNTY, West Virginia whose names are stamped on the back cover - HAROLD SOPHER and PAUL FOURNEY

 

Does anyone know anything about this book?

 

I was able to upgrade my copy. So, there would appear to be at least about 6 copies known to exist. I have two. HarveyDude has one. I think there is one in the CGC census too. And I don't know if the two referenced in the article are among the ones we know about.

 

[esquirecomics]

To top it off I have a copy of the price list that accompanied the book. It could be purchased with or without an organization's imprint from between $0.04 and $0.06.

 

[esquirecomics]

This is an amazing complete B/W reprint set of some of the key anti-communist books of the day and includes Blood is the Harvest, How Stalin Hopes We Will Destroy America, If the Devil Would Talk and The Red Iceberg. All but Stalin were issued by the Catechetical Guild. The set includes the original certificate identifying this as Portfolio #39 which was issued to Robert Dane.

[ft88]

Also from the 60's this is more a Pro-Communist "comic"

 

How to Shoot an Airplane.

 

Printed in China in the 1960's.

 

BTW if anyone knows much about shooting, the odds of actually hitting a plane with a rifle where it would actually do any damage to a military fighter or bomber are pretty much zero.

 

Link

 

Here's the front pic.

 

[Harvey Dude]

I was able to upgrade my copy. So, there would appear to be at least about 6 copies known to exist. I have two. HarveyDude has one. I think there is one in the CGC census too. And I don't know if the two referenced in the article are among the ones we know about.

 

Correction. I was trying to obtain a copy but the deal fell through so I am still without a copy

[Harvey Dude]

This is an amazing complete B/W reprint set of some of the key anti-communist books of the day and includes Blood is the Harvest, How Stalin Hopes We Will Destroy America, If the Devil Would Talk and The Red Iceberg. All but Stalin were issued by the Catechetical Guild. The set includes the original certificate identifying this as Portfolio #39 which was issued to Robert Dane.

 

Hard to believe that book portfolio is already over 25 years old. Seems like yesterday when it was released.

[Harvey Dude]

1953 was a very productive year for anti-Communist and Atomic bomb themed covers. Just acquired this book.

 

 

[adamstrange]

Love it -- and not an easy book to find either!

[maxstuf]

Finally found this one as I was packing up some of my boxes......

 

[Harvey Dude]

Nice book. I think I saw four different variations for the pricing of the book. The red 10 cents in circle variety is not as common as the blank circle version.

[esquirecomics]

Now these books are, well lets say, unique. I purchased them in the last Hakes auction and actually thought I had mistakenly thrown them out with the box but was pleasantly surprised to find them tonight!

 

The Hakes description stated these were from 1948-1953. The Chambers/Hiss story is replete with homosexual scenes and the Coplon and Stalin books contain various sexual exploits. Alleged to be scarce.

 

Anyone ever see them before?

 

 

 

 

[selegue]

Now these books are, well lets say, unique. I purchased them in the last Hakes auction and actually thought I had mistakenly thrown them out with the box but was pleasantly surprised to find them tonight!

 

The Hakes description stated these were from 1948-1953. The Chambers/Hiss story is replete with homosexual scenes and the Coplon and Stalin books contain various sexual exploits.

 

Wow. What are they, political progaganda Tijuana Bibles? From the staple size, they're maybe 2" x 3"?

 

Alleged to be scarce.

 

I'd say that's a safe bet.

Anyone ever see them before?

 

Not a chance!

 

Jack

[esquirecomics]

4" long x 3" wide

 

I would post some of the interior pages but that would turn the boards into a comic book version of Hustler. The images are that graphic!

[esquirecomics]

Took me longer than I thought to finally snag this book. It shows up but always some fierce bidding.

 

[Harvey Dude]

Nice pickup Esquire. I would have thought you would have already procured a copy of

this book as it is a tad more common than most of your previous postings.

Edited July 15, 2007 by Harvey Dude