Jack Cole Archives

It also debuts the acrobatic speedster character Quicksilver by Chuck Mazoujian and Jack Cole of Plastic Man fame This Golden Age Quicksilver would be renamed Max Mercury at DC Comics over 50 years later, and become an important part of the DC Comics speedster pantheon There's a Billy Wright Pedigree CGC VF 8.0 White pages[...]

Silver Streak was a foundational early Golden Age title, and issue #3 featured the origin and first appearance of that title's namesake hero, the speedster Silver Streak.  In a wonderfully bizarre 10-page origin story by Jack Cole, "The Mystery of the Monstrous Fly" a race car driver is killed in a crash orchestrated by a[...]

Silver Streak Comics is a rarity among Golden Age titles in that it was launched with a villain as the cover feature.  That villain, The Claw, was both an obvious example of war-era propaganda and based on a blatant racial stereotype.  Publisher Lev Gleason was so intent on focusing on this wartime enemies theme that[...]

Featuring a noteworthy group of creative talent, including formative work from Jack Cole, Mort Meskin, and Irv Novick, the comic is also a fascinating reflection of the global anxieties of its time A surprisingly difficult-to-find Golden Age superhero comic, there's a solid Top-Notch Comics #3 (MLJ, 1940) CGC VG+ 4.5 copy up for auction in[...]

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[...]

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[...]