The Propeller-Head Monster by Gus Ricca for Chesler's Dynamic Comics #18 is one of the artist's strangest covers of the Golden Age.
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Lou Fine's classic early covers for Quality Comics' Hit Comics make the early issues of the series highly sought after by collectors.
Eastern Color Printing's 1934 debut of Famous Funnies launched one of the most important series in American comic book history.
Best remembered as the album cover of Molly Hatchet’s 1979 Flirtin’ With Disaster, Frank Frazetta's painting Dark Kingdom has sold for $6M.
Published in 1952, Farrell Publications' Voodoo Annual #1 is a 100 page squarebound Pre-Code Horror rarity containing Matt Baker art and more
Legendary and influential comic book artist John Romita Sr. has passed away at the age of 93, according to his son John Romita Jr.
During the Pre-Code era, the New York Legislature had issues with a Pre-Code Horror story drawn by Don Rico in Marvel Tales #97 in 1951.
Lev Gleason editor/creator Charles Biro sometimes seemed to use Daredevil Comics as an excuse to create a series of bizarre villains.
Bang-Up Comics #1's Lady Fairplay, had "unlimited energetic powers" making her "goddess of chastisement and dreaded foe of the underworld."
Daredevil Comics #5 was inspired by the FBI's Q1 1941 release of its regular Uniform Crime Reports, debuting the bizarre character Sniffer.
Before the X-Men, Professor X was a criminology professor in Captain Flight Comics who knew everything there was to know about crime.
Inspired by World War II, the Korean War, and the looming Cold War, the war comics of the 1940s and 1950s have a strange history behind them.
Fiction House changed Rangers Comics from what was essentially a superhero title into a long-running war comic book series.
Best remembered for his creation of the Human Torch and other Golden Age work, Carl Burgos did hundreds of Marvel covers in the 1950s.
"The Island that Disappeared" in Atomic Attack #8 from Youthful Publications was inspired by Operation Ivy.
Spy Smasher remembers the Battle of Wake Island on the cover of Fawcetts's Spy Smasher #8 shortly after that history took place.
In what seems to have been a franchise reboot attempt, Captain Battle's son completed an important mission and saved his dad in the process.
Aviation-themed covers were a large part of the early era of L.B. Cole's career as a comic book cover artist.
Fiction House's Ranger Comics launched featuring the Rangers of Freedom, a costumed hero-centric group who faced the villain SuperBrain.
Created by Chesler art director Charles Sultan, Punch Comics #1's Sky Chief, was a reflection of the aviation history of the era.
Chesler's Major Victory Comics series from 1944-1945 is largely composed of reprints, with a notable exception: the debut of Spider-Woman.
Leslie Charteris gave Avon Publications detailed feedback on the look he wanted for The Saint comic book series in the late 1940s.
In 1951, the New York Legislature had issues with a Pre-Code Horror story drawn by Don Rico in Marvel Tales #97.
Discover the haunting fusion of supernatural and superhero themes in Dynamic Comics #1, a cherished Chesler classic from 1941.
MLJ heroes like Black Hood, Shield, and Hangman have been living in Archie's shadow in recent years, but that may be changing for collectors.
MLJ's the Black Hood had a fascinating journey through the Golden Age, including Top-Notch Comics, Jackpot, Pep and his own series.
Steel Sterling was the other Man of Steel of the Golden Age, and his origin moment by Charles Biro and Abner Sundell explains why.
Marvel Mystery Comics #8-10 is an historic crossover event, but Top-Notch Comics #5-7 with Wizard & Shield hit newsstands at the same time.
John Cassone's the Web used his criminology skills to show that criminals can always be caught up in the web of the details of his own crimes.
The saga of the Black Hood during the WW2 era and beyond makes the character a historically unique part of the Golden Age.