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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
When it comes to vigilante justice, why should millionaire playboys, off-duty cops and crackpot scientists have all the fun? In HIT Comics #1, beekeeper Richard Raleigh gets into the act…
Things have been kind of slow around here, so I thought I’d start a series of posts on some of the weirder superhero comics I’ve come across. In recent years,…
Recently, Laura and the kids decided we needed a(n until then unannounced) “movie night,” but no one had any idea what to watch. I suggested a Bond film, which normally…
Not sure I have much to add on the subject of William Shatner venturing into space for real, but I figured I couldn’t let it go entirely unmentioned. I don’t…
