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Jordan, the grandson, killed 75 years before his time by celestial mistake, is brought back to sort-of life as Kid Eternity, with the power to summon heroes from history.  It's a unique origin story that combines brutal reality with cinematic fantasy. Hit Comics #25 (Quality, 1942) The creation of Otto Binder and Sheldon Moldoff, Kid Eternity is[...]

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[...]

(DC Comics, 1955) The Krypto story in Adventure Comics #210 was written by Otto Binder and drawn by Curt Swan.  As eventually discovered during the course of the story, like baby Superman himself, Krypto arrived on Earth in a rocket from Krypton.  But Krypto's rocket was launched for a different purpose, as explained in a letter[...]

Issues #2 and #3 returned to the Binder shop, mostly Jack Binder and Otto Binder.  The first two issues of Captain Battle Comics were published by known Lev Gleason publishing company New Friday (no doubt named after the left-wing tabloid magazine Friday that Gleason was associated with).  Issue #3 contains reprints of Silver Streak material but[...]

Marvel/Timely's Miss America debuted in Marvel Mystery Comics #49, cover-dated November 1943.  Created by Otto Binder and Al Gabriele, that issue told the story of Madeline Joyce, the teenage ward of radio tycoon James Bennet.  Bennet was funding the experiments of scientist Professor Lawson, who developed an electrically-charged apparatus that gave him superpowers.  Madeline quickly[...]

Fawcett's Wow Comics is such an underappreciated Golden Age series.  The title, which debuted in winter 1940 and ran for 69 issues through August 1948, featured work by the likes of CC Beck, Otto Binder, Dave Berg, and even Jack Kirby among countless others.  But the series really started to shine with the arrival of[...]

Accompanying him is Randy Cox, notable comic book curator and vintage art collector, author of A Baby Boomer's Guide to Collecting Comic Books and Baseball Cards. And then there is also the teenage Frank Miller In Otto Binder: The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary by Bill Schelly, who died two years ago, he talks of the Miller[...]

Rorschach #1 opens with a man dressed up as Rorschach getting shot in the face. Later, it turns out the man is a stand-in for real-life cartoonist Steve

Beck and Otto Binder, Black Adam is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (The Shallows) with Adam Sztykiel (Scoob!, Rampage) providing the screenplay The film is a spinoff of the superhero action-comedy Shazam! (2019). "Black Adam" Origins Black Adam first appeared in Fawcett Comics in 1945 before his reintroduction DC Comics in 1973 Whereas Shazam gets his powers from[...]

You'll see his full, 16-page origin story from his first-ever appearance in 1941 Writers : Ed Cronin, Robert Turner, Ed Herron, Richard Hughes, Otto Binder, Bill Woolfolk, Dick Wood and others uncredited. Artists: Reed Crandall, Fred Kida, William Overgaard, Ogden Whitney, Phil Bard, Kin Platt, Elmer Wexler, Ernie Schroeder, Leonard Starr, Augie Froehlich and George Appel . Cover[...]

Supergirl was created as a female counterpart to Superman in 1959 by writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino in 1959, and first appeared in Action Comics. She now has a TV series and, although she doesn't have her own comic right now (both a digital and a print version are in production I'm told), a version of her[...]