As the 1940s were drawing to a close, a new genre was beginning to gain in popularity in the comic book field. This genre was horror, and it would only be a short time before EC Comics jumped on this growing interest to create some of the most memorable comic book stories of the period. … Continue reading Forgotten Masterpiece: Airboy Fights the Rats
The Heap was something of an accidental success story in the Golden Age of Comics, a character who wound up having a much greater lifespan than was ever initially intended, and in fact well outliving the series that first gave him life. The Heap was the first of the swampy muck-monsters in comic books, all … Continue reading The Last Heap Story
As we covered not long ago, Airboy was one of the most successful characters of the Golden Age of Comics. Not quite a super hero, more an adventurer aviator, the characters was perhaps better positioned to adjust to the changing tastes of the evolving audience, particularly in the postwar period. Created in 1942, AIRBOY COMICS … Continue reading The Last Airboy Story
Airboy was one of the more popular and long-lasting series of the Golden Age of Comics. Created by Charles Biro in the pages of AIR FIGHTERS COMICS #2, Airboy was young Davy Nelson, the heir to a robotic batwinged plane named Birdie developed by his late father, who used it to fight the Axis in … Continue reading Lost Crossovers: AIRBOY v3 #12
Eclipse had established itself early on as one of the most creator-friendly alternative comics on the burgeoning Direct Market scene. They began publishing in 1978 with the issuing of Don McGregor and Paul Gulacy's graphic novel SABRE. Publishers Jan and Dean Mullaney had been huge comics fans throughout the 1970s, and as the tastes of … Continue reading Brand Echh: Airboy #1
There really wasn't a lousier time to try to start up a new color comic book line than the very early 1970s, but this didn't stop Skywald. Skywald was a joint venture of Israel Waldman, who had previously been behind the I.W./Super comics line of unauthorized golden age reprint titles distributed directly to department stores … Continue reading Brand Echh – The Heap #1
Simple and stark, this John Prentiss cover to REAL CLUE CRIME STORIES is a graphic grabber.
No idea offhand who drew this cover to DEAD-EYE WESTERN, but it certainly is dramatic as hell. Given his expression, it’s almost difficult to relate to the buckskin-wearing cowpoke who’s drowning that poor Indian as the good guy. The Grand Comics Database lists their best guess at the artist as being Dan Zolnerowich
A fun AIR FIGHTERS COMICS cover by Charles Biro featuring Airboy. The early Airboy covers tended to be more concept and design oriented than the typical covers of the period, and this one uses actual newspaper copy as it’s background.
I have no idea who the artist was on this issue of CLUE COMICS, but the image is super-cool and dramatic, even if some of it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. That shadow in the foreground, for example. Nonetheless, by filling up the picture plane with that horrified face, and centering the colors … Continue reading Great Covers – CLUE COMICS v2 #1
The Tom Brevoort Experience 