Forgotten Masterpiece: WINGS COMICS #94

Fiction House was one of the more successful comic book publishers of the Golden Age of Comics. They came into the field from pulp magazines, where they had an active line of titles every month. For the most part, Fiction House's comic book output mirrored their pulp magazines--often using the same title and even on … Continue reading Forgotten Masterpiece: WINGS COMICS #94

BHOC: ALL IN COLOR FOR A DIME

I was regularly haunting the section of the Sachem Public Library that contained books on or about comics, not just for that elusive copy of ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS (which I never did find there) but also for anything else of interest. I took out and read a bunch of books from that section, many … Continue reading BHOC: ALL IN COLOR FOR A DIME

BHOC: THE COMIC-BOOK BOOK

As I think I've spoken about in the past, I came from a family of readers. Both my father and my mother would read books regularly, and it was this love of reading that helped make it acceptable and unquestioned that I had an interest in comic books--they understood that reading was reading. And so … Continue reading BHOC: THE COMIC-BOOK BOOK