Jack Binder Archives

The Black Owl saga here turns this historic center of American broadcasting into a wartime target less than a year later. Prize Comics #22 (Prize, 1942) Radio City at War "The Black Owl Outwits the Fox" drawn by Jack Binder begins during a popular radio broadcast Guns concealed inside microphones kill performers while the Fox moves through the[...]

A lead Captain Battle story about "Dollar-a-Year" defense executives under attack and a Daredevil crime tale child kidnappings anchor the issue, but 13-year-old Harold Curtis might have been just as interested in the Cloud Curtis aviation saga about a Japanese strike on Alaska. Silver Streak Comics #15 (Lev Gleason, 1941) The Captain Battle cover feature by Jack[...]

Captain Battle debuted in Lev Gleason Publications' Silver Streak Comics #10, the creation of Carl Formes and Jack Binder.  Binder is well known as the founder of a major comics production studio active throughout the Golden Age and somewhat beyond, as well as being the older brother of Earl and Otto Binder.  Formes is far[...]

Captain Battle debuted in Lev Gleason Publications' Silver Streak Comics #10, the creation of Carl Formes and Jack Binder.  He was the youngest combatant in World War I and lost his left eye fighting in that war.  He subsequently gave his life over to "the scientific perfection of inventions which he uses to overcome evil[...]