Archie Andrews and his Riverdale friends hit the big time a year after his Pep Comics #22 debut, getting his own series with Archie Comics #1
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Bill Everett's The Conqueror debuted in Victory Comics from Hillman Periodicals as a superhero transformed by cosmic rays.
A big fan of Hal Foster's Tarzan growing up, young Harvey Kurtzman entered a Tip Top Comics cartooning contest and was published in issue #36.
Newspaper comic strip syndicate United Feature had an extensive presence in the comic book industry since the early days of the Golden Age. They published their flagship Tip Top Comics for 188 issues from 1936-1954 before licensing the title to St John, featuring a variety of their comic strip characters reprinted in comic book format. [...]
During the boom years of 1939 and the early 1940s of the Golden Age of American comic books, most new entrants in the field naturally had little or no experience in comics publishing. Such was not the case for Columbia Comics Corporation, which entered the field in April 1940 with Big Shot Comics #1, a[...]
Even without being Wonder Woman's first appearance, Sensation Comics #1 is undeniably a major Golden Age comic book key. Hitting the newsstands just two weeks after the character's first appearance and origin in All-Star Comics #8, Sensation Comics #1 features iconic and now-famous Wonder Woman artwork by H.G Peter on its cover, and much more. [...]
1" from the cover of that first issue has gone for $7,101. What's an ordinary collector to do when brittle flakes from the interior pages of this historic first issue have gone for hundreds of dollars? The traditional route to addressing this situation is to go for the so-called "poor man's Action Comics #1", which[...]
Marines taking part in more traditional war stories. While the title became perhaps best known for its covers which were a combination of war themes and damsels in distress, the interior stories came to encompass a much wider range of stories during the WWII era and beyond. Features like Werewolf Hunter by Lily Renée, Glory[...]
Demand is also inextricably linked to rarity, in practice. A desirable comic book that becomes widely known as rare tends to become less rare over time — usually. With all this said, 20+ years into the era during which we have CGC census and public sales data available, Fox Feature Syndicate as a line is[...]
With the industry exploding in Superman's wake in the second half of 1939, no Golden Age publisher had built up an entire line of ostensibly popular superhero-centric titles until then. While DC Comics had published New York World's Fair 1939 in conjunction with the debut of that event, it didn't even feature its superhero characters[...]
Like a few other Golden Age publishers, Fox Feature Syndicate titles sometimes verged into horror well before the late-1940s era which is generally considered to mark the beginning of the Pre-Code Horror era. Such issues, particularly ones with good horror covers, can have crossover appeal among both Pre-Code Horror and superhero collectors. Mystery Men Comics[...]
Overall, the idea that a then 11-year-old Blatty who lived in a specific neighborhood of East 35th Street and went on to a successful career as an author and screenwriter might be the same William Blatty who was a seemingly avid Mystery Men Comics reader in the same neighborhood in 1939 is convincing. It's hard[...]
and its accompanying court testimony is a goldmine of historical information about the formative moments of the Golden Age comic book boom. Filed by the company that would become known as DC Comics and asserting similarities between Superman and Fox's Wonderman, DC v Bruns is perhaps my favorite comic book history historical document, and a[...]
Dick Briefer's Rex Dexter of Mars may draw inspiration from a pair of All-American Comics sagas, which he takes in weird directions.
Argentine-born comic book artist Louis Cazeneuve is perhaps best known for his DC Comics work in the Golden Age on a number of titles including Detective Comics, Action Comics, More Fun Comics, Star Spangled Comics, Adventure Comics, and others on characters such as Aquaman and Shining Knight. He also co-created the Timely Comics character Red[...]
Including the likes of New Golden Age #1 and Dark Crisis #6 And amongst them all, themes seem to emerge And a big one concerns parents and children, something that has risen to the fore as more of DC's mainstays have gotten married and had kids – and more characters have discovered hidden histories regarding[...]
The Huntress character at DC Comics has (mostly) been divided by two identities, Helena Bertinelli and Helena Wayne, though there have been others and the Huntress of the Golden Age, Paula Brooks, was a supervillain The use of the character has been complicated by DC Crisis on continuity, and the current New Golden Age and[...]
This week's DC New Golden Age one-shot by Geoff Johns, Steve Lieber, Jerry Ordway, and Diego Olortegui is bringing us new Golden Age Heroes for the DC Universe Characters who did not previously exist in the DC Universe because they were removed from it and now are being returned with DC continuity retconning around them[...]
Captain Aero Comics featured an eclectic mix of characters including Miss Victory, Flagman, Alias X, and a magician named Solar.
The solicitation for the DC New Golden Age one-shot this week by Geoff Johns, Steve Lieber, Jerry Ordway, and Diego Olortegui is bringing us new Golden Age Heroes for the DC Universe It looks like these are characters who did not previously exist in the DC Universe because they were removed from it and now are being returned under the[...]
It's John Henry Jr time! The solicitation for the DC New Golden Age one-shot this week by Geoff Johns, Steve Lieber, Jerry Ordway, and Diego Olortegui is bringing us new Golden Age Heroes for the DC Universe It looks like these are characters who did not previously exist in the DC Universe because they were removed from it and now[...]
It's Ladybug time! The solicitation for the DC New Golden Age one-shot this week by Geoff Johns, Steve Lieber, Jerry Ordway, and Diego Olortegui is bringing us new Golden Age Heroes for the DC Universe It looks like these are characters who did not previously exist in the DC Universe because they were removed from it and now are being[...]
Judy Garrick is The Boom! The solicitation for the DC New Golden Age one-shot this week by Geoff Johns, Steve Lieber, Jerry Ordway, and Diego Olortegui is bringing us new Golden Age Heroes for the DC Universe It looks like these are characters who did not previously exist in the DC Universe because they were removed from it and now[...]
The solicitation for the DC New Golden Age one-shot this week by Geoff Johns, Steve Lieber, Jerry Ordway, and Diego Olortegui is bringing us new Golden Age Heroes for the DC Universe It looks like these are characters who did not previously exist in the DC Universe because they were removed from it and now are being returned under the[...]
Silver Streak Comics #23 was an issue that should never have happened. After publisher Lev Gleason's apparently expensive plans to launch the Saint into comic books in Silver Streak Comics fizzled, the series ended with issue #21. The numbering on the title was then taken over by the now-legendary Crime Does Not Pay series with[...]
So who is The Quiz Kid? The solicitation for the DC New Golden Age one-shot this week by Geoff Johns, Steve Lieber, Jerry Ordway, and Diego Olortegui is bringing us new Golden Age Heroes for the DC Universe It looks like these are characters who did not previously exist in the DC Universe because they were removed from it and[...]
So who is The Harlequin's Son? The solicitation for the DC New Golden Age one-shot this week by Geoff Johns, Steve Lieber, Jerry Ordway, and Diego Olortegui is bringing us new Golden Age Heroes for the DC Universe It looks like these are characters who did not previously exist in the DC Universe because they were removed from it[...]
She's the sidekick of the Golden Age character The Human Bomb, who first appeared in Police Comics #1 in 1941 by Quality Comics Roy Lincoln, a scientist, working on an explosive chemical with his father, who eats it rather than let the Nazis get it, and gains the power to explode anything he touches.
The solicitation[...]
This week's DC New Golden Age one-shot this week by Geoff Johns, Steve Lieber, Jerry Ordway, and Diego Olortegui is bringing back "new" Golden Age Heroes for the DC Universe, known as The Thirteen Use this tag to keep up with details on them as they roll out on Bleeding Cool over the weekend[...]
Golden Age Mister Miracle, you ask? The solicitation for the DC New Golden Age one-shot this week by Geoff Johns, Steve Lieber, Jerry Ordway, and Diego Olortegui is bringing us new Golden Age Heroes for the DC Universe It looks like these are characters who did not previously exist in the DC Universe because they[...]