In an unusual introduction to what will prove to be a very unusual “superhero,” we first meet the celebrated Dr Hormone in Dell’s Popular Comics #54 as an old man at death’s door. It’s unclear whether “Hormone” is a family…
I’ve written here before about the joys of virtually “thumbing through” old Christmas catalogs on the Wishbookweb.com site, and while the holidays are behind us for a while, there’s still plenty of time-traveling fun to be had from perusing those…
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Volume 2 of “The Steranko History of Comics,” a work that it’s fair to say blew my mind as a kid. I call it a “work” because I never know how to classify…
Returning to our retrospective on the kookiest superheroes of all time, I give you the short but spectacular career of Hip Knox, raised from birth to be a master of the art of hypnotism. Obviously he wasn’t raised to be…
Christmas is, incredibly, just days away and in an effort to get in the proper mood, I’ve returned to the Wishbook Web site to page through the old catalogs that fueled my imagination as a lad. In 1976, I was eleven…
Since the last post here, we’ve had a few things going on. We spent an unconventional Thanksgiving in a hotel in Charlotte, NC so Jason could compete in the US Masters chess tournament. It was good to have a change…
