Number 241John Stanley chills usIt seems right to show this chilling tale on a day when in my neighborhood the thermometer peaks around 0 degrees F. It's from the 1962 Dell Giant, Tales From The Tomb, written by John Stanley, [...]
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Sáu, 28 tháng 12, 2007
Number 240Who's Yehudi?Irv Novick was an artist who produced a staggering amount of work for comics in his lifetime. I didn't appreciate him as much as I should have because he always seemed to be published in comics along [...]
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Tư, 26 tháng 12, 2007
Number 239"Can I choose waterboarding instead?"I read that the Clock is considered the first masked character to appear in comic books. There were costumed and disguised characters in the pulps; the Shadow and Zorro spring [...]
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Hai, 24 tháng 12, 2007
Number 238How Santa Got His Red SuitIt's Christmas Eve! Hope you boys and girls have been good this year, so Santa will give you what you want.What Pappy wants is to give you are some good comics for Christmas, and here's [...]
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Sáu, 21 tháng 12, 2007
Number 237Ghost Rider and the League of the Living Dead!Oboy! Zombies! Voodoo! Corpses coming out of graves! Dead men shooting down living men, turning them into other dead men! It's all from ME Comics' Ghost Rider #7, 1952, [...]
The Silver Age Superman
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Tư, 19 tháng 12, 2007
The Silver Age Superman was dramatically different from the Golden Age Superman. Aside from the very early stories, the Golden Age Superman tales tended to be more of a whimsical series. Perhaps sensing that Superman was [...]
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Number 236Rat Fink ChristmasI was reminded of something the other day when I got my friend Dave Miller's annual Christmas CD. To compile his yearly CD, Dave takes some of the most obscure and oddball Christmas music he can [...]
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Number 235"H-He didn't even kill me!"This raggedy looking "Bombshell, Son Of War," is from a box of golden age comic book stories given to me 25 years ago, collected by a man who liked certain artists. In the 1940s he bought [...]
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Hai, 17 tháng 12, 2007
Number 234"'Twas the night before…"Boody Rogers does a Christmas story that isn't a Christmas story. It's from Big Shot Comics #84, December 1947. "'Twas the night before Christmas…" features Slap Happy, the ex-boxer with [...]
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Bảy, 15 tháng 12, 2007
Number 233The Terrible TrunkFrom Atlas' Adventures Into Weird Worlds #5, April 1952, "The Terrible Trunk," drawn by Joe Sinnott, begs the question. Who would you throw into that trunk, if you had it, and could make someone--anyone-- [...]
