Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Coming In May--A Celebration of Superman

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Not only is May the 70th anniversary of Superman, but it's also the 50th anniversary of the Silver Age Superman. In 1958, Mort Weissing...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

50 Years Ago--Action Comics #239

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This is one of those goofy covers that you have to laugh at. "No comment?" That's what Mafia members were saying to reporter...
Friday, April 18, 2008

More World's Finest Weirdness

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I'm working my way through the early Weissinger issues and I have to admit, I didn't realize how odd it gets. Batman exposing his s...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Worst Mistake Ever?

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Well, a pretty bad one, anyway. In 1964, DC decided to team up their two biggest teenage characters, Robin and Jimmy Olsen. So in World...
Friday, April 11, 2008

Random Cover of the Day: Showcase #20

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Not too hard to guess who the editor was for this issue; if there's a monster, a dinosaur or an alien on the cover, odds are it's a ...
Sunday, April 06, 2008

Silly Stuff

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In Superman #145 (May 1961), Clark and Lois attend "The Interplanetary Circus", which has mysteriously arrived on the outskirts of...
Saturday, April 05, 2008

A Little Tribute to Murphy Anderson

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Murph is probably my favorite artist of the Silver Age, since Dick Sprang was only around for the first half of the era. And among inkers, ...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Sockamagee!

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This was a post I had been planning to do for some time, but given the passing of Jim Mooney , it's especially apt. Mooney was a terrifi...
Monday, March 31, 2008

The Secret Agent Wore a Bowtie

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Comic publishers were ever alert for the latest trends among adolescent boys. When the secret agent craze hit in the mid-1960s with James B...
Sunday, March 30, 2008

Stanhope's Libraries

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Most of DC's teen heroes showed some signs of aging, although obviously at nothing like the calendar's pace. In Action #270, (Novem...