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Cover price $0.10. Joe Doolin is fast becoming one of my favorite golden age cover artists from writing about these auctions these last few months He just does an excellent job of breathing life into what could really easily be a static cover There's a Rangers Comics #39 (Fiction House, 1948) Condition: VG/FN is up for[...]

The Fiction House story can't be told without distribution pioneer, anti-Prohibition activist, and champion swimmer John W. Glenister.

Today, DC Comics reprints last year's New Golden Age Special by Geoff Johns, Mikel Janin and more, as well as Justice Society Of America #1-3 ahead of the new Golden Age titles launching next week with Wesley Dodd's The Sandman But this rewriting of continuity did expose a little something that the rest of the[...]

However, that did lead to the long-running Sandman Mystery Theatre starring the gas-masked superhero from DC Comics' Vertigo line, and gave DC two ongoing, if very different, Sandman comic books at the time.   It's one of a number of new titles that will be under The New Golden Age banner showrun by writer and former DC[...]

The company was also a relatively early entrant in comics' Golden Age with Jumbo Comics, which came about five months after Action Comics #1 debuted Superman for the publisher we now know as DC Comics Based on how Fiction House reacted once the rest of the comic book industry became aware that Superman in Action[...]

The tough-to-get Kaanga Comics series features some spectacular art and covers from the likes of Maurice Whitman and Jack Kamen.

New Golden Age Special Edition #1, an upcoming DC Comic scheduled for a grand debut on October 3rd Oh, we can't wait. From the Justice Society of America to the Legion of Super-Heroes, The New Golden Age will unlock DC's epic and secret-ridden history of heroism, launching a new group of titles set firmly in the[...]

One of the most notorious comic book publishers of the Golden Age, Victor Fox, appropriately enough, was also one of the most crafty.  Unlike most other comic book publishers of his era, Fox had no prior experience publishing pulps,  comic strips, or anything else before his unlikely entry into the publishing field in 1937 with[...]

Shortly after the Jack Kamen era of Blue Beetle began in 1947, the title showed up on comic book ban lists in cities around the country.

Anyone who's been reading comic books and/or watching comic book movies for any length of time knows that superhero origins are subject to change.  This has been going on since the Golden Age We discussed some early Blue Beetle origin revisions recently, and a similar situation developed with another Fox Features Syndicate hero named Green[...]

1940 marked a significant level-up for the character Blue Beetle, especially with the launch of Blue Beetle #1, an important series debut that hit the newsstands alongside the character's own newspaper strip starting in January of the same year.  The character had initially made his debut in June 1939 through Mystery Men Comics #1 as[...]

The first appearance of the original Blue Beetle, Mystery Men Comics #1 remains one of the most overlooked key comic books of the golden age.  Hitting newsstands around June 15, 1939, this series was launched very near the beginning of the super-hero wavefront that ultimately transformed pop culture Mystery Men Comics #1 hit the newsstand in the[...]

Will Eisner was enamored with calling characters "The Flame."  In 1935, he created samples for an (unpublished) detective comic strip featuring a character of that name as part of his early attempts to break into syndicated newspaper strips.  In 1936, a feature called The Flame, better known by its retitled name Hawks of the Seas,[...]

Detective Comics v Bruns Publications is one of the defining historical moments of American comic books.  In a judgment handed initially handed down on April 7, 1939, and affirmed on appeal on April 29, 1940 the court ruled that Victor Fox's Wonderman character in Wonder Comics infringed on DC's Superman copyrights.  In a lesser-known but[...]

In the Golden Age, comic book superheroes often didn't spring onto the comic page fully formed.  Sometimes, changes from issue to issue were due to a lack of attention to detail as publishers tasked creators to just get the stories out quickly to try to take advantage of the comic book superhero boom of the[...]

Weird Comics #18 features one of the strangest and fun covers from a golden age book, featuring the Eagle and his sidekick Buddy.

Wonderworld Comics #22 features the Flame, Black Lion and much more in a classic WWII-era issue from Fox Feature Syndicate.

Debuting in the appropriately titled Weird Comics from Fox Feature Syndicate, the Dart certainly qualifies as a weird superhero even by the standards of the Golden Age.  As his origin in Weird Comics #5 explains, Caius Martius was a citizen of the ancient Rome of "2200 years ago" who fought the racketeers and extortionists of[...]

PrintWatch: DC Comics' New Golden Age line expands this October with the launches of Wesley Dodds: The Sandman, Jay Garrick: The Flash, and Alan Scott: Green Lantern and to help readers catch up with this world, DC Comics is rush-soliciting offers two key reprints, also now going on sale in October. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float:[...]

1940 was the Blue Beetle's year.  After launching in June 1939 in Mystery Men Comics #1, Dan Garrett, the Golden Age Blue Beetle would get a newspaper strip starting in January 1940, and his own series which hit newsstands around the same time A radio show started in May 1940 Like a lot of superheroes,[...]

The Folio Society has teamed up with DC Comics to publish DC Comics: The Golden Age (1938-1956), a collection of eighteen stories from the formative age of American superhero comic books, including the debut adventures of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and more. The edition is the first in a series of DC "Ages" collections which[...]

Victor Fox's important early Golden Age title Science Comics chronicles how Timely/Marvel beat him to the name Electro.

Given Victor Fox's reputation, it is often assumed that the Flame is little more than a Human Torch rip-off, but the answer is more complicated than it seems.  The founder of Fox Feature Syndicate was one of the most notorious publishers of the Golden Age of comic books, and navigated the Golden Age via lawsuits[...]

It may be late, but the JSA is bringing the Golden Age right back up to date As no matter what the world throws at you, at Bleeding Cool, you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the[...]

But the JSA, the Justice Society Of America,, is reuniting the Golden Age characters that were introduced as having been deleted from canon – even more than those who actually were with the New 52 And this week's Justice Society Of America #6 runs some reunions for Dawn Of DC, with the hope that they[...]

The Eagle first appeared in the venerable Fox Feature Syndicate early 1940 release Science Comics #1.  As the series name implies, the origin of his powers was based in science: "Bill Powers, young scientist, discovers an anti-gravitation fluid which, when placed on his specially designed wings, enables him to fly like a bird."  But Fox[...]

Anyone who's been reading comic books and/or watching comic book movies for any length of time knows that superhero origins are subject to change.  This has been going on since the Golden Age We discussed some early Blue Beetle origin revisions recently, and a similar situation developed with another Fox Features Syndicate hero named Green[...]

Printwatch: DC Comics' New Golden Age expands this October with the launches of Wesley Dodds: The Sandman, Jay Garrick: The Flash, and Alan Scott: Green Lantern and to help readers catch up, DC will offer two reprints, on sale this October. Justice Society of America: Gold Edition will reprint the sold-out Justice Society of America issues #1, #2, and[...]

If you've ever wanted a convention-style experience that was just about vintage paper, Collectors Summit sounds like the event for you.  Their upcoming event will be held at Heritage Auction headquarters in Dallas on November 4-5, 2023, and it's geared towards serious collectors of Golden Age to Bronze Age comic books, pulp magazines, original artwork,[...]

In which the elusive Liberty Comics #14 gives us a hook into understanding the sometimes murky world of the comic book industry of its era.