Just before this issue of BRAVE AND THE BOLD came out, the second of the two prime time specials that are collectively known as LEGENDS OF THE SUPERHEROES premiered. In contrast with the first, which contained an actual adventure story, as hammy and embarrassing and ill-considered as it was, this second one was a full-on … Continue reading BHOC: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #149
Even before FLASH COMICS met its end, other members of the Justice Society of America were experiencing their final solo adventures of the Golden Age. Green Lantern was luckier than some--his solo series lasted for a couple of months after his spot in ALL-AMERICAN COMICS had been taken over by western hero Johnny Thunder. But … Continue reading The Last Dr Mid-Nite Story
So I was back in the habit of buying ACTION COMICS every month after a short hiatus that was motivated by I don't know what. It was always a reliable purchase: never the most exciting comic book in my stack, but always dependable for an enjoyable story. A bit of a disparity had begun to … Continue reading BHOC: ACTION COMICS #494
Just like her fellow heroes the Flash and the Hawkman (though not the Atom, as we've previously discovered), Black Canary also had her final solo outing of the Golden Age in the pages of FLASH COMICS #104. She'd continue to appear regularly in ALL-STAR COMICS as a member of the Justice Society of America for … Continue reading The Last Black Canary Story
After we ran our piece on the Last Atom Story last week: https://tombrevoort.com/2024/11/03/the-last-atom-story/ A reader identifying himself as Zoomy wrote in to the comments to let me know that there'd actually been one additional Atom story published a week later, snuck into the back pages of an issue of SENSATION COMICS, #86. So I figured … Continue reading The Actual Last Atom Story
As with Hawkman, the Flash's final golden age appearance was in ALL-STAR COMICS #57 in 1950 as part of the Justice Society of America. But we're talking about the Scarlet Speedster's solo exploits here. And by that metric, Jay Garrick's final run in his winged helmet took place in the final issue of FLASH COMICS, … Continue reading The Last Flash Story
I turned twelve years old around this time, and while I don't especially remember anything about that event, there were two other things that happened in that same week that I'll never forget. I first saw an advertisement for the live action LEGENDS OF THE SUPERHEROES specials in one of my family's regular newspapers--we got … Continue reading BHOC: LEGENDS OF THE SUPERHEROES AND CAPTAIN AMERICA
Well, not quite. For the members of the Justice Society of America, most of them made their final appearance of the Golden Age of Comics in the last JSA adventure, published in ALL-STAR COMICS #57 in December of 1950. But before that, many of the heroes' home anthology series came to an end, and with … Continue reading The Last Hawkman Story
With a big Omnibus collecting all of them coming out any time, my mind has been drawn to the assorted authorized crossovers undertaken by rival companies Marvel and DC over the years. Some of those stories were triumphs, sagas that compared and contrasted the characters involved skillfully, and which were just crackerjack entertaining in their … Continue reading 5BC: Five Middling Marvel/DC Crossover Books
The legend surrounding the origins of Superman has been codified into a sort of simplistic myth-version over the years, the story of two young friends who had a world-beater of an idea, pursued it over the course of half a decade, facing rejection and ridicule along the way, only for it to turn out to … Continue reading The Seldom-Seen Jerry Siegel & Russell Keaton SUPERMAN samples
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