Comic publishers were ever alert for the latest trends among adolescent boys. When the secret agent craze hit in the mid-1960s with James Bond and his many imitators the comics were not far behind. Marvel made a terrific [...]
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Number 282Burke and Hare"To burke" is to kill by smothering or suffocation. The verb comes from this pair of miscreants, Burke and Hare, immoralized…heh-heh, I mean immortalized, in "Ghoul's Gold" from 1946 in Crime Does [...]
Stanhope's Libraries
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Most of DC's teen heroes showed some signs of aging, although obviously at nothing like the calendar's pace. In Action #270, (November 1960), Supergirl celebrated her 16th birthday. Four years later, in Action #318 (November [...]
Jimmy Olsen's Ape Girlfriend
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DC played lots of tricks on Jimmy Olsen, but this certainly takes the cake:And on the splash panel for the story it's played for comedy, but there's a disturbing subtext:It may seem hard to believe the CCA let this stuff [...]
The Fortress of Stalkertude
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Mark Engblom has been covering Superman's rather creepy Fortress of Solitude in a series of entertaining (and revealing) posts. Highly recommend [...]
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Number 281The Starving GhoulThis is a screwball story from Eerie Publications' Terror Tales #7, March 1969. The title, "Gravestone for Gratis" has nothing to do with the story. Neither does the splash. They look like they've [...]
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Number 280Sexy John StanleyBesides strips about little kids, Little Lulu and Nancy, in the early '60s John Stanley did some teenage books, including Around The Block with Dunc & Loo and Thirteen Going On Eighteen.This [...]
Slightly Off Topic, But
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I had to comment on this comic:The Incredible Hulk #141 is dated August 1971, so it's just outside my normal focus, but it's such a gas that I couldn't resist talking about it anyway. Done as an homage to Tom Wolfe's Radical [...]
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Number 279The Twisted Mr. TwistoThere's no secret to Charles Biro's approach to comic book writing. Focus on the bad guys. Villains are intrinsically more interesting that goody two-shoes good guys. The last time I showed [...]
#010. Epic Illustrated Comics
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Epic Illustrated was a comics-magazine anthology published in the United States by Marvel Comics. The series lasted for 34 issues, from Spring 1980 to February 1986. Similar to the US-licensed graphic-story [...]
