During the comic industry's boom time of the early 1950s, L.B. Cole covers were designed to stand out on the crowded newsstands.
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Dell is remembered as the publisher of comics featuring licensed Disney characters, but they had a superhero line including Martan the Marvel Man.
In the midst of a torrent of studio presentations, CinemaCon 2023 unfolded with enthusiasm & a renewed optimism for the theater experience.
Dive into the Red Band trailer for The Equalizer 3, as Denzel Washington as former govt assassin Robert McCall takes on the Italian mafia.
Super science hero Captain Battle was created by Jack Binder and former opera star Carl Formes, and has a weird publishing history.
Likely the most famous Marvel character outside of its superhero universe, Millie the Model debuted in 1945, created by Ruth Atkinson.
Rarity can be an elusive concept for some vintage Marvel, and the Marvel/Atlas humor line contains a number of undiscovered gems.
In Georgie Comics #1, Marvel publisher Martin Goodman as "Captain Goodman" helped Georgie in a scheme to impress Hedy Lamarr.
The "newest, biggest, solidest, keenest" comic of 1947 was Marvel's Junior Miss, featuring Cindy Smith, Sandra Lake and residents of Oakdale.
Marvel is infamous for reusing names, and Lana Comics and Frankie & Lana featured different characters running at the same time.
Accomplished artist Louise Altson painted portraits for numerous important 20th century figures, and also did some Marvel covers.
Wendy Parker Comics was a different sort of romantic comedy at Marvel during its brief 1953-1954 run by artist Christopher Rule.
Not to be confused with Patsy Walker's frenemy Hedy Wolfe, Hedy De Vine was a movie star who had her own Marvel series.
Marvel's Meet Miss Bliss, inspired by the Our Miss Brooks tv franchise & Kubert's Meet Miss Pepper, was created by Stan Lee & Al Hartley.
Arguably Marvel's first female star character since her early Joker Comics appearances, Tessie got her own series with Tessie the Typist #1
Not only did Tessie become Marvel's first female cover star in Joker Comics, she also carried three titles at once in the mid-1940s.
Weeks before the introduction of Louise Grant and her alter ego the Blonde Phantom, Millie Collins assumed a different Blonde Phantom identity
Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's crime comics run in the Headline Comics series featured the likes of John Dillinger and Stella Mae Dickson.
Created by Dan DeCarlo and Stan Lee, was My Girl Pearl's Mrs. Lumpkin the mother of Fantastic Four mailman Willie Lumpkin?
Perhaps the first superhero of the Atomic Age, Charles A. Vought's inventive Atomic Man had a brief run in Prize's Headline Comics.
Patsy Walker & other humor characters presided over a changing of the guard after WW2, as All Winners Comics transformed into All Teen Comics.
Dan DeCarlo is best remembered for his work on Archie Comics, but he played a significant role in 1950s Marvel like Millie the Model as well.
The incredibly obscure Star Studded Comics from Cambridge House Publishers features Ghost Woman plus work by Carmine Infantino.
Alex Schomburg transformed this 1944 Wonder Comics #3 cover from Standard/Better/Nedor into a war-era classic.
Kaanga Comics #8 appears to be one of the toughest Fiction House comics in high grade, and features a spectacular cover by Maurice Whitman.
Golden Age Captain Marvel is often considered the kinder, gentler superhero saga, but but early Whiz Comics could have a savage side.
One of the biggest characters in the Golden Age, Captain Marvel was also featured in some of the biggest comics published in the era as well.
Charles Quinlan worked on characters such as Blue Beetle and Cat-Man, but static electricity-powered Volton deserves a footnote in his career
One of the low-key best science fiction titles of the Cold War era, Charlton's Space Adventures contains many underappreciated gems.
Master Comics was a long-running Golden Age series from Fawcett Pubications that came to feature the character Captain Marvel Jr.