COLLECTION NAME:
Malcolm Ater Collection
Record
Title:
Grenada : Rescued From Rape and Slavery
Description:
"GRENADA--RESCUED FROM RAPE AND SLAVERY" in nearly perfect NM condition! The United States Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) produced this cloak-and-dagger comic in 1983, and it became the most famous--and important--comic of the "Cold War." My father, Malcolm Ater, Sr., President of Commercial Comics, was secretly contacted by our own C.I.A. and commissioned to write this anti-Communist comic that WAS AIR-DROPPED OVER GRENADA AFTER THE U.S. LED- INVASION OF THE COMMUNIST-LEANING COUNTRY.
So secret was this comic book that my father was told to keep no written records; (all meetings between my father and the agents were in non-descript places), with the only people knowing about it were my father and his artist (my uncle, celebrated artist Jack Sparling.) After the front cover was already finished, the C.I.A. insisted on adding "Rescued From Rape and Slavery" to the bottom of the page to show the ruthlessness of the Communist regime that had taken over the island country of Grenada. All information used in this comic came from the C.I.A.!
When it was time to pay my father for his work, an agent picked up my father in a taxi cab in front of his Washington, D.C. office on Massachusetts Avenue. As they drove down Embassy Row and then around Dupont Circle, the agent handed my father a briefcase containing $35,000 in cash and
whispered, "You know Nothing About This." True Story that came directly from my father.
This comic vividly portrays the gruesome acts of violence that the Communists leveled on the people of Grenada--including rape and forced labor after stripping away all their freedoms. It's pretty frightening art and was done with complete compliance of our government! And after the U.S. led the invasion of Grenada, this comic was air-dropped over the country by our own government! Again, true story!
Now, you ask yourself, how did this guy end up with this comic in NM condition? My father had saved a "set" of these comics after the other copies were air-dropped over Grenada. My father passed away in 1992, and these comics have sat in an Ater House for 35 years. Untouched.
How important was this comic produced directly for the C.I.A.? Last month the University of Iowa Press just released a copy of the 300-page scholarly-research book, "Neocolonial fictions of the Global Cold War." And what did they use for the cover of such an important and scholarly book? The cover used for their book was the EXACT SAME COVER of this comic book (except for the title, of course.) Yes, you get the idea of the impact this comic had! It's a comic book that every serious comic collector should own, whether you're a collector of super heroes or villains or whatever, this is the book that collectors have heard about! And now you can get it directly from the writer's estate along with a card certifying that it came from my father's personal collection! And you will never see it so cheaply or in this beautiful condition from anyone else--ANYWHERE. Get this book while you can, because when they're gone, they're gone!
I also have the vivid ORIGINAL ART for this book by Jack Sparling. Very serious collectors are invited to inquire!
Note: First class shipping and tracking is $4.50 for the first copy and 1.00 each for up to 4 additional copies in the same mailer. We cannot ship more than five copies per mailer, but you may reorder in sets of five.)
So secret was this comic book that my father was told to keep no written records; (all meetings between my father and the agents were in non-descript places), with the only people knowing about it were my father and his artist (my uncle, celebrated artist Jack Sparling.) After the front cover was already finished, the C.I.A. insisted on adding "Rescued From Rape and Slavery" to the bottom of the page to show the ruthlessness of the Communist regime that had taken over the island country of Grenada. All information used in this comic came from the C.I.A.!
When it was time to pay my father for his work, an agent picked up my father in a taxi cab in front of his Washington, D.C. office on Massachusetts Avenue. As they drove down Embassy Row and then around Dupont Circle, the agent handed my father a briefcase containing $35,000 in cash and
whispered, "You know Nothing About This." True Story that came directly from my father.
This comic vividly portrays the gruesome acts of violence that the Communists leveled on the people of Grenada--including rape and forced labor after stripping away all their freedoms. It's pretty frightening art and was done with complete compliance of our government! And after the U.S. led the invasion of Grenada, this comic was air-dropped over the country by our own government! Again, true story!
Now, you ask yourself, how did this guy end up with this comic in NM condition? My father had saved a "set" of these comics after the other copies were air-dropped over Grenada. My father passed away in 1992, and these comics have sat in an Ater House for 35 years. Untouched.
How important was this comic produced directly for the C.I.A.? Last month the University of Iowa Press just released a copy of the 300-page scholarly-research book, "Neocolonial fictions of the Global Cold War." And what did they use for the cover of such an important and scholarly book? The cover used for their book was the EXACT SAME COVER of this comic book (except for the title, of course.) Yes, you get the idea of the impact this comic had! It's a comic book that every serious comic collector should own, whether you're a collector of super heroes or villains or whatever, this is the book that collectors have heard about! And now you can get it directly from the writer's estate along with a card certifying that it came from my father's personal collection! And you will never see it so cheaply or in this beautiful condition from anyone else--ANYWHERE. Get this book while you can, because when they're gone, they're gone!
I also have the vivid ORIGINAL ART for this book by Jack Sparling. Very serious collectors are invited to inquire!
Note: First class shipping and tracking is $4.50 for the first copy and 1.00 each for up to 4 additional copies in the same mailer. We cannot ship more than five copies per mailer, but you may reorder in sets of five.)
Artist:
Sparling, Jack
Writer:
Ater, Malcolm
Publisher:
Commercial Comics, Inc.
Date:
1984
Collection Information:
Malcolm Ater Collection is a collaboration between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and West Virginia University
Collection:
Malcolm Ater Collection