Commander Benson's News posts – September 2009 Archive (1)

Deck Log Entry # 90 Death in the Silver Age: Mark Merlin, R.I.P.

If you lived in the DC universe in the 1950’s and were a greedy relative or unscrupulous lawyer trying to swindle someone out of his fortune by posing as a ghost or a space alien or a time-traveller, you didn’t stand a chance. Not with all the DC sleuths who made a living out of exposing the fantastic as simply larcenous fellows wearing sheets or bizarre masks.



There was the self-styled “Ghost Breaker”, Doctor… Continue

Added by Commander Benson on September 14, 2009 at 4:00pm — 7 Comments

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