Jack Kamen Archives

Navy ship, and it was soon discovered she had amnesia.  The ship's cook suggested the name "Claire Voyant" by paging through a dictionary, cleverly reasoning that a name suggesting knowing the future is the very opposite of not knowing your past.  After the war, more of her backstory was revealed as she discovered that she[...]

Best remembered for his work at EC Comics across a range of genres including science fiction, horror, and crime, Jack Kamen also made noteworthy late-1940s contributions to publishers like Fiction House and Fox Feature Syndicate, where his good girl artwork on titles like Phantom Lady among others is also highly sought after by collectors[...]

1 Hero,"  but with no apparent editorial changes — yet.  More importantly, Zoot Comics #7 featured a radical change from kid's humor comic to Good Girl title, with the debut of Rulah, Jungle Goddess by Matt Baker in an interior story, and a Jack Kamen Rulah cover. My Life #4 (Fox Features Syndicate, 1948 Within five months,[...]

Robert Webb wrote and drew the lead strip, Viper Gods of Vengeance Veldt, as well as Hawk strip, The Return of Captain Claw, with Sky Girl from Matt Baker and Diogenes from Jack Kamen Heritage Auctions has a copy of Jumbo Comics #102 up for auction right now Take a look and see how high[...]

Today's Heritage Auctions' Sunday & Monday Comic Books Select Auction #122250 has twelve issues of Kaanga Comics, featuring spectacular art and covers from the likes of Maurice Whitman and Jack Kamen. Kaanga Comics (Fiction House). After nine years of headlining Jungle Stories, Kaanga received his own comic book series from Fiction House, which ran from 1949 to[...]

1 Hero,"  but with no apparent editorial changes — yet.  More importantly, Zoot Comics #7 featured a radical change from kid's humor comic to Good Girl title, with the debut of Rulah, Jungle Goddess by Matt Baker in an interior story, and a Jack Kamen Rulah cover. Within five months, Fox transformed a line entirely composed[...]

It means bringing to the ground an untamed steer from a herd grazing on the prairie, and having secured him, shipping him to market or reserving him on the ranch to be converted into beef or other purposes when required." Cow Puncher Comics #2 (Avon, 1947) Avon Periodicals' Cow Puncher Comics may not have much cow punching[...]

Navy ship, and it was soon discovered she had amnesia.  The ship's cook suggested the name "Claire Voyant" by paging through a dictionary, cleverly reasoning that a name suggesting knowing the future is the very opposite of not knowing your past.  After the war, more of her backstory was revealed as she discovered that she[...]

Simon Templar, better known as the Saint, was the creation of author Leslie Charteris, who wrote numerous novels and short stories featuring his signature character 1928-1963.  Charteris collaborated with other authors for some time afterward.  The Saint has also been a multimedia star over a number of decades, inspiring film, television, radio, comic strips, and[...]

Best remembered for his work at EC Comics across a range of genres including science fiction, horror, and crime, Jack Kamen also made noteworthy contributions to publishers like Fiction House and Fox Feature Syndicate, where his good girl artwork on titles like Phantom Lady among others is also highly sought after by collectors.  We've mentioned[...]

Best remembered for his work at EC Comics across a range of genres including science fiction, horror, and crime, Jack Kamen also made noteworthy contributions to publishers like Fiction House and Fox Feature Syndicate, where his good girl artwork on titles like Phantom Lady among others is also highly sought after by collectors.  But the[...]