All-Star Comics #3 (Winter 1940):
1)I expect that if you've only read one Golden Age adventure of the JSA, this is the one. It's not bad, but this first issue is more like an anthology than a team book, per se.
2)Line-Up: The Atom (Al Pratt), Doct
Read more…Happy birthday to Don Rickles, born May 8, 1926 · age 87 years today! Of course, he's best known for his two appearances in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen during the Jack Kirby days of the early 1970s.
Or was that Goody Rickels?
Read more…It's been a while since I've listed future Showcase Presentses from Amazon and other sources, and there have been a lot of changes, mostly delays, since the last one I posted in December 2012. Here's the latest I can find as of this date, 5/6/13:
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So normally my pal Hoy posts these birthday tributes to our standard-bearer, the highly esteemed Mr. Silver Age, Craig Shutt, but as the day has almost drawn to a close and I just now remembered, I guess I'd better get this up on the board soon befor
Read more…Issue #122 of Alter Ego in December will be devoted to CBG, including some of the columns (including mine) that had been prepared for CBG #1700.
So mark your calendars, get your orders in early and start saving your shekels, effendi!
Read more…Well of course you do. You're reading this. But does everyone who claims it?
A front-page A&E (Lifestyle) article in today's Chicago Tribune, "It's A Nerd World," notes that a lot of people are claiming to be nerds because it's become trendy. And, wi
Read more…Recently on another board, a silver age fan posted a cover of the JLA issue where the Red Tornado debuted.
From somewhere back in the recesses of my memory banks, I dredged up that there had been a controversey or at least a discussion about The Vis
Read more…In honor of Star Trek Into Darkness, I wish to discuss Gold Key's Star Trek #1 (Jl'67) which I read as part of Golden Press' Star Trek: The Enterprise Logs (1976). There are three criteria that I want to examine:
Why was this? Possibly Marvel split books had equally popular heroes thereby more democratic than Detective's Batman and Martian Manhunter or Batman and Elongated Man? I think I've answered my own question here, errr ... Okay: which format did you p
Read more…In response to overwhelming fan demand (hi, Kirk!), here are the questions for the 2013 Pro/Fan Trivia Challenge as presented at the Chicago Comics & Entertainment Exposition (aka C2E2).
The answers follow in the first response, because you’re on th
Read more…For an article on the 75th anniversary of Superman, Mike Sangiacomo of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland created this simple graphic to chart Superman's timeline. Piece of cake:
Here's the main article he wrote on the topic: http://www.cleveland.com/com
Read more…It seems a pity that this forum has gone so dead since Monday...I must conclude that you are all preparing for your role as the Easter Bunny in this weekend's egg hunts and hidden baskets!
Several years ago (more than 2 decades) there was a single cl
Carmine Infantino's passing away hits me the same way that Julie Schwartz's or Curt Swan's passing away hit me. These were giants among comic book creators, men who shaped my very childhood with their wonderful stories for DC Comics, and nobody has e
Read more…I was just talking with co-workers about the stark black and white photos of the Achorage, Alaskan earthquake that happened just at Easter Time in 1964, I was 8 and can recall all the stark photos from the Associate Press plastered across all the ne
Read more…http://news.yahoo.com/black-hole-caught-snacking-super-jupiter-planet-221409133.html
This showed up on the newsfeeds today...and my first thought was Galactus is hungry again!
Read more…While flipping through a couple of the "One-Minute Later" varieties of covers done by various artists, I paused on one that showed the Sentinels... and a co-worker walked up behind me and said, "Sentinels, eh?"
He had the X-men Sega game at one time
Read more…We've been talking several times about Lex Luthor, his origin, his hatred towards Superman and his bald head. He has been the Man of Steel's arch-nemesis since the Golden Age and has travelled with him in every incarnation through every possible medi
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IDW Publishing’s Library of American Comics is partnering with DC Entertainment to reprint rare newspaper strips starring Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. The archival collections will debut in July with Superman: The Silver Age Newspaper Dailies,
Read more…From our previous discussion(s), the most recent in the 12 Questions thread, the Dobie Gillis DVD is being released on July 2. It's a mere $97.99 for 3600 minutes on TWENTY disks!
http://www.amazon.com/Many-Loves-Dobie-Gillis-Complete/dp/B00C7A8WWO/r
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