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A Cover A Day: Nominations, Themes and Statistics

This thread is a companion to the "A Cover A Day" discussion.  Click here to visit that discussion.  It is intended for the discussion of potential new themes and topics for "A Cover A Day", voting on these themes, and the gathering and reporting of

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Ann-Margret's birthday

Today, April 28, is Ann-Margret's birthday. I ran across this pre-Bye Bye Birdie screen test I thought might be of interest.

https://fb.watch/kc79OM897R/?mibextid=Nif5oz 

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Happy birthday, Craig!

I'm not online much these days, but I do want to come to the Ask Mr. Silver Age website long enough to wish our best pal Craig Shutt the happiest of birthdays!. Try not to collide with too many skyscrapers today.

--Your pal, Hoy Murphy

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Celebrate May 26, 1971 -- you hockey puck!

According to Mike's Amazing World of Comics, it was 50 years ago on this date that this wonderful issue of Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen was released! Oh, Goody! Happy Anniversary!

Hoy

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Happy Birthday Mr. Age!

Every year on this date, no matter where I am, no matter what I'm doing, I always find a way to pause in my hectic schedule to pay tribute to the man who put the Silver in Silver Age. Yes, once again it's time to wish a very Happy Birthday to Mr. Age

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Silver Sightings: The Three Wives of Superman!

Though I didn't know it at the time, Superman Family #164 (My'74) was its first issue as, due to a paper shortage and falling sales, DC combined Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane and Superman's Cousin Supergirl into a bi-mon

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Happy Birthday to Mr. Age -- That's "Silver" to His Friends

Wow, the planets have all lined up again in their cosmic collaborative conglomerations to acknowledge and yes, revel in the birthday of our old pal and fearless leader, Craig A. Shutt, aka Mr. Silver Age himself. While some buffoonish wags have sugge

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More media consolidation/decline

I've seen little written about a recent decision by the Justice Department. They have decided to stop end or ing/declare no longer valid what's clad the Paramount Decision, an agreement reached in 1948 that ended an anti-trust lawsuit against eight m

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Batman/Catwoman/Huntress Questions AKA I Was Wondering #32

With the recent news about a big change in the status quo of the rather bumpy relationship between Batman and Catwoman, I thought about their eighty year history and, well, wondered about a few things. Changes in continuity have played havoc with DC'

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Sketching silver-age Covers

One of my hobbies (well my main hobby actually) is re-drawing covers from the silver-age and trying to make them as close as I can to the originals.  I draw by eye only - no tracing allowed. One of the ways I make sure not to cheat is that I draw my

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Happy birthday Mr. Silver Age 2019

How about that! Craig made it through another year, with hardly any sign of (silver) aging! 

Your pal, Hoy

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Three of a Kind

I was looking through some old comics when I thought of a new game. I call it Three of a Kind. Here's my first entry. 

Hoy

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DC / Marvel Crossover - Bob Hope

I was reading Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos #43 this evening and ran across this crossover appearance by DC Comics' 1950s and 1960s superstar Bob Hope. 

Hoy

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Need help from the experts! Does anyone know a site or blog about Superheroes actual Birthdays?

 I'm doing research for my volume three of Comic Book Trivia Facts and was wondering if you know of any websites that list the actual Birthday's of Superheroes? .

 DC Comics 1976 Calendar does llst many, but Mavel Heroes are not to be found anywhere,

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Silver Sightings: Batman's Silver Age: What Took So Long?

Beyond Commander Benson's examination of Batman's "New Look" period which began in 1964, I was always puzzled that the Caped Crusader was so behind the times as far as his Silver Age "entry" in Detective Comics #327 (Ju'64). View the cover of Detecti

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Entertainment Weekly's Stan Lee Tribute

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Scooby-Doo Team-up 36 - A tribute to Silver Age DC comedy

I bought this issue because it had Angel and the Ape on the cover. I was surprised that they weren't the only Silver Age DC comedy characters to show up inside. I've posted a few panels. See if you can recognize or remember them. There may be some I

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Black Panther Questions AKA I Was Wondering #31

With the Black Panther movie doing so well, I thought that I would reread his Epic Collection "Panther's Rage!". I had forgotten that it also included his first appearance in Fantastic Four #52-53 (Jl-Au'66) and those got me all a'wondering again!

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What's In a Name?

It occurred to me randomly the other day that most of the all-time greatest comic book people (U.S.-based, anyway) have first names that start with the same letter. I started jotting down some names, and the list kept getting longer and longer, to th

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The World's Strangest Heroes... The Doom Patrol!

A few random Doom Patrol thoughts that occurred to me:

1) People sometimes comment on Elasti-Girl getting the shaft as the distaff member of the group. Not outwardly a freak and the only one who "never" got revived even though she eventually did aft

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