Jack Cole Archives

It features the real-life saga of Stella Mae and Bennie Dickson, a Bonnie and Clyde-style husband and wife team who went on a multi-state crime spree in 1938-1939, adapted into a comic story and cover by legendary comic book creator Jack Cole A key crime comic book from an important series and by a noteworthy[...]

National Comics #5 is known for its stand-out Lou Fine cover and for its interior story featuring the expanded origin of the Quality Comics version of Uncle Sam.  In addition to work by Fine and Will Eisner, the issue features Golden Age greats like Blue Beetle creator Charles Nicholas Wojtkoski, Toni Blum, George Tuska,  Dan[...]

1950 was a turning point of sorts for publisher Quality Comics.  Everett "Busy" Arnold bought out his longtime partners in the business John Cowles, Sr and Gardner Cowles, Jr not too long after the comic book industry had shifted from a focus on superheroes to a variety of other material.  Long-running Golden Age titles like Smash[...]