Fifty years ago this month, Superman #284 appeared on newsstands, and young me was happy to get it. In something of a homecoming for the Man of Steel, the story sees Clark Kent reuniting with two cherished childhood friends to…
Well once again this blog has sat dormant for a long stretch, but having just gone through the trouble of picking the whole thing up and moving it to a new web host, I figure I might as well generate…
Ten years ago I did a series of posts here looking back at the year 1974, and now that that year is officially a half century in the past, I find myself thinking about it again. In particular, I was…
The lead feature in Fox Feature Syndicate’s Weird Comics #5 (Aug. 1940) takes us back to the days of ancient Rome, when men and swords were made of sterner stuff. Here we meet one Caius Martius, the “terror of Roman…
Crime-fighting attire is all about style. You wouldn’t dress in your finest raiments for Derby Day or the Easter parade without including awesome headgear, so neither should you don a brightly-colored spandex super-suit while neglecting a senses-shattering chapeau. The only…
Jasper Rasper is a mean man! So begins Action Comics #105 (Feb. 1947), and rather accurately, too, since we first glimpse the wealthy sourpuss in the act of firing his long-term, loyal employee “Cartwright” despite the man’s advanced years and…
