tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post2459098494394071992..comments2024-03-29T13:59:18.269+00:00Comments on Steve Does Comics: Atlas Comics - Planet of Vampires #1.Steve W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-75361787926601812002019-09-02T19:40:58.697+01:002019-09-02T19:40:58.697+01:00The 70's weren't bleak and depressing. Th...The 70's weren't bleak and depressing. The present decade is though. Sooner its over the better,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-94997349999590602014-07-01T22:23:56.710+01:002014-07-01T22:23:56.710+01:00Lovers if the PA genre should appreciate it for wh...Lovers if the PA genre should appreciate it for what it typifies- bleak and depressing 1970's science first. The domed city,the plague ravaged world and the futility (even when you win, you lose) ending, the only thing missing is black turtleneck sweaters. Btw, it takes place 5 years after what must have been a very limited nuclear war- but even a very limited nuclear war would ruin your whole decade. I always made the rationalization that the nuclear war was mild, but it was the mutated disease plagues that really wrecked things.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-78998994938087002602012-08-26T23:31:13.441+01:002012-08-26T23:31:13.441+01:00I loved some of Atlas' stuff so bad it was goo...I loved some of Atlas' stuff so bad it was good (some so bad it was awful) But I did like !Planet of the Vampires!! it had some nice art with issue 3 being drawn by Russ Heath and the Broderick/Adams cover in issue 1 is still a favourite of mine - although issue 2's cover looks like it has Dracula on the cover its not him but rather one of the stories vampires (made to look like Dracula it has to be said) - McScottyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com