As we've covered in the past, despite the fact that crossovers between characters and strips were a rare thing in the Golden Age of Comics, publisher Fawcett wasn't reticent about having its players occasionally meet. But for whatever reason, when it came to their most popular headliners, the Marvel Family, while Captain Marvel wound appear … Continue reading Lost Crossovers: WOW COMICS #28
We've now reached the point where all that was left in my stack of comics purchased in my 1988 Windfall Comics sale were issues of ACTION COMICS, so get ready for a steady stream of ACTION reviews before we're done. This particular issue featured a lead story that I had already read years before, in … Continue reading WC: ACTION COMICS #326
Now this comic book I know was given to me by my friend David Steckel. As I've mentioned before, David was a thorough Marvel Zombie (before that term came into widespread use) and he found all DC comics to be juvenile kiddy stuff--which, in al honesty, they largely were. So he had less than no … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERMAN’S GIRL FRIEND LOIS LANE #104
This was the final issue of SUPERBOY that I got as a part of my Windfall Comics purchase of 1988, in which I bought a box of almost 150 Silver Age comics for $50.00, a huge bargain even at that time. By this point, editor Mort Weisinger's Superman titles were beginning to run out of … Continue reading WC: SUPERBOY #136
For those who know, the significance of this issue of SUPERBOY is readily apparent. For those who don't, you'll be finding out all about it by the time we get to the end of the coverage of this issue. By 1966 when this issue was first published, editor Mort Weisinger's approach to the Superman titles … Continue reading WC: SUPERBOY #131
We're getting down to the end in my summations of my Windfall Comics purchase of 1988, which means that we're going to start to see the same titles show up again and again, issue after issue. These were the books which were a part of that purchase in some bulk, the ones whose demand on … Continue reading WC: ACTION COMICS #317
It was a relatively rare thing for the characters from one comic book or title to meet characters from another strip during the Golden age of Comics. Outside of the regular gatherings of the Justice Society of America in the pages of ALL-STAR COMICS, most heroes tended to remain in their own little worlds, battling … Continue reading Lost Crossovers: WOW COMICS #33
KID KOMICS was a bit of a hybrid production of Timely Comics, at least at the start. Launched in 1943, it split its focus between super hero adventure strips like the cover-spotlighted Captain Wonder and comedy series such as the unfortunate Whitewash and Knuckles, starring two of the Young Allies. Eventually, within a few issues, … Continue reading The First Subbie Story
I have to confess, of all of editor Mort Weisinger's assorted Superman titles of the late 1950s and 1960s, SUPERBOY is the one that I warmed to the least. In general, I liked the daffy storybook construction of most of the line's output, but somehow the low-stakes small town conflicts of the Boy of Steel … Continue reading WC: SUPERBOY #124
I'd heard about this story for years but had never read it before stumbling over it by accident as I was researching something else. But you'll be the recipient of my good fortune, as this means that I can now share it with you. As we've talked about previously, in the Golden Age of Comics, … Continue reading Lost Crossovers: THE MARVEL FAMILY #28
The Tom Brevoort Experience 