Wonderworld Comics #22 features the Flame, Black Lion and much more in a classic WWII-era issue from Fox Feature Syndicate.
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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.
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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[...]
Sometimes the desirability of comic books to collectors is not about a first appearance, origin, first issue, or pivotal events in the story. Sometimes, it's more about an important moment in time, and the earliest-days collaboration of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby is one such moment. The legendary pair are among the most famous creative[...]
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,[...]
Señorita Rio was one of the premiere female spy thrillers of the Golden Age of comic books, drawn by a historically important artist Lily Renée and running through most issues of Fight Comics #19-71 The Fight Comics Señorita Rio feature appeared from 1942 to 1950 starring the titular character fighting Axis agents conducting espionage throughout[...]
Among the icons of the Golden Age, Basil Wolverton is unique A creator who had a knack for imagining the unimaginable in comic books and beyond, Wolverton left an indelible mark on Golden Age history with one of his most memorable creations: Spacehawk This superhuman science fiction enforcer made his debut in Target Comics #5,[...]
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.
Peterson relates the story of Paul Massilotti, the leader of a ring of check forgers who was captured and convicted in 1937.
Jack Cole was a wildly creative and important Golden Age artist whose most famous creation is the character Plastic Man for Quality Comics He was also a regular cartoonist for Playboy magazine later in[...]
Mel Keefer's cover for the 1953 Toby Press release Tales of Horror #8 features a giant monster rampaging in New York City.
Crime Does Not Pay #33 is one of the most-collected issues of the most notorious series in comic book history.
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.
Many of the comic books of the early Golden Age were a response to the rising chaos of a world at war, but sometimes, those comic books were not a direct reaction to the war itself. For example, the Daredevil story written and illustrated by Charles Biro in Daredevil Comics #5 took inspiration from the[...]
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.
Spy Smasher remembers the Battle of Wake Island on the cover of Fawcetts's Spy Smasher #8 shortly after that history took place.
Greene is best remembered as the creator of Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, a science fiction novel, radio, comic strip, and comic book franchise that also ran on television 1950-1955, and is one of a handful of series to appear on all four networks of that era (CBS, ABC, NBC and Dumont). There's a backup feature[...]
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.
The short-lived Major Victory Comics series contains a range of great examples of the Chesler line. Even the superheroes and adventure characters are off-beat and weird, and tend to be viewed through a horror-tinged lens at times. Patriotic character Major Victory's origin moment is sparked by a character called Father Patriot, "a spirit born in[...]
Leslie Charteris gave Avon Publications detailed feedback on the look he wanted for The Saint comic book series in the late 1940s.