Dick Briefer Archives

Daredevil fights a bell-tower phantom, the Claw builds an impossible war machine, and Dick Briefer sends the Bronze Terror off on a movie-industry plot But the issue has an edge that wasn't necessarily there at the beginning of the series, as it repeatedly turns outlandish threats and punishment into spectacle Biro's cover makes it clear[...]

The cover, tentatively attributed to Charles Nicholas Wojtkoski, is a seemingly unrelated Blue Beetle image. Dick Briefer's Rex Dexter story is even more unusual "Curse of Stratobird" announces on its opening page that it is based on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Briefer transforms the poem's fatal shooting of the albatross, supernatural[...]

The Battle of the Coral Sea had taken place on May 7 and 8, preventing an operation intended to cut communications between Australia and the United States. Dick Briefer provides one of the highlights of the issue, with a Frankenstein story in which Doctor Devil grants the monster three wishes and tries to turn him against[...]

Fox Feature Syndicate publisher Victor Fox had high hopes for Dick Briefer's Rex Dexter of Mars from early on.  A few months after his debut in Mystery Men Comics #1, Rex was part of Fox's push via the Mitchell J Hamilburg Agency to get Fox properties into film, radio, merchandise, and syndicated newspaper strips.  A[...]

Dick Briefer's Frankenstein has a complicated history in the context of comic book horror.  The debut of Briefer's take on the Frankenstein monster mythos began in Prize Comics #7, December 1940, which has come to be considered an important milestone in the context of comic book horror.  Early on, this version of the character was[...]