The normally jovial Gilligan over at RETROSPACE takes a real-world look at the 1951 self-help comic book, IF AN A BOMB FALLS and concludes that, contrary to what the book says, if an A Bomb falls, we are all toast!

http://my-retrospace.blogspot.com/2010/01/ten-cent-education-4-if-a-bomb-falls.html

By coincidence (?), TEN CENT DREAMS reprints that whole comic, IF AN A BOMB FALLS and includes the follow-up. THE H BOMB AND YOU for more pointless, placating suggestions on how not to get sizzled.

http://tencentdreams.blogspot.com/2010/01/saturday-matinee-ahhhhhhh.html

From real word horrors to more traditional ones, over at THE HORRORS OF IT ALL, we find the creepy story, “The Murderous Mimics” from a 1950’s issue of BEWARE and credited to artist Paul Cooper, a gentleman whose work I don’t recall ever having seen before.

http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2010/01/murderous-mimics.html

Finally, today, the horrors of war. Unlike DC’s traditional Kubert and Kubert-esque war stories, here’s the late, great Alfredo Alcala from a 1974 issue of WEIRD WAR TALES with insanely detailed art on John Albano’s “The Bird of Death.”

http://www.comicbookwar.com/2010/01/weird-war-tales-bird-of-death.html