Via Superitch, an example of Canada’s WWII comics efforts, in the shape of a complete Johnny Canuck story.
We would give a lot to have a larger image of this cover, but alas, the internet has failed us. THAT’S how special Johnny Canuck is.
Always Appropriate: Felix the Cat
08/17/2010 by 3 Comments
Tweet Via Comic Book Bin, info on the new Felix the Cat: The Great Comic Book Tails from IDW, compiled by inexhaustible Craig Yoe.
Now on sale: The Golden Collection of Klassic Krazy Kool Kids Komics
06/10/2010 by Leave a Comment
Tweet Via PR, another swell-looking collection of vintage kids comics, this time collated by Craig Yoe as part of his line of books at IDW. Award-winning comics creator and historian Craig Yoe has done it again, this time offering a huge collection of the most brilliant children’s comics from the 1940’s and ‘50s Golden Age [...]
History on the Internet #2: Bully’s Marvel for newbs
06/02/2010 by Leave a Comment
Bully boils it all down in easily digested panel format. Bookmark for pals!
History on the internet #1: Silver Age Newspaper Headlines
06/02/2010 by Leave a Comment
Those were the days.
DETECTIVE #27 goes for OVER $1 million
02/25/2010 by Leave a Comment
Tweet Rich Johnston has the exclusive news that this week’s record comics sale of $1 million for an issue of ACTION #1 has already been broken by a copy of DETECTIVE #27 which sold for $1,075,500. That issue, of course, reprints presents the first appearance of Batman. The Caped Crusader is topping the Man of [...]
ACTION #1: The $1 Million Comic Book
02/23/2010 by Leave a Comment
Tweet As you probably saw splashed all over the news yesterday, a collectible comic has broken the $1 million barrier, as a 8.0 graded copy of ACTION #1, the first appearance of Superman, as sold by an unknown owner to an unknown buyer. As told here, the sale was brokered by Stephen Fishler and Vincent [...]
Old Comics alert: Atomic Surgery
02/22/2010 by Leave a Comment
Tweet Atomic Surgery is another one of those blogs which posts crazy old comics stories; we haven’t previously linked to it but a story called We Were 20th Century Cavemen! (1959) provides a fine opportunity to do so, and reminds us of a time when pages and pages of people in torn clothing fighting prehistoric [...]
Hours of fun: The comics that seduced the innocent
10/07/2009 by Leave a Comment
Tweet To commemorate last week’s Banned Books Week, Stephen St Walley tracks down all the comics mentioned in Wertham’s Seduction of the Innocent and adds links to downloadable versions. Obviously, many of the below comics are not intended for children. While all of them were probably read by children, they were not necessarily the intended [...]
SWEET! Old kids comics
09/17/2009 by Leave a Comment
Tweet A recent link on Journalista reminded us that cartoonist/animator Doug Gray has a blog, The Greatest Ape, which is to wacky old oddball comics as Golden Age Comics Stories is to Reed Crandall, but not, sadly as prolific. Here’s a page of SuperKatt by Dan Gordon from 1946. Since we were just getting all [...]
Oh, Kitty Pryde
09/08/2009 by Leave a Comment
Tweet Top Five Most Iconic Kitty Pryde Covers via Comics Should Be Good!
Hours of fun: Government comics archive
06/17/2009 by Leave a Comment
TweetDid you know that The University of Nebraska-Lincoln library archives contain a digital archives of 175 free government comics from around the world? It’s true! Duck and cover! Conserve water! The war against drugs! The price of Freedom! Captain America and Campbell’s Soup fight energy drainers! IT’S ALL HERE. Smokey Bear! And this classic tale [...]
The Elseworlds that never was
05/15/2009 by Leave a Comment
Tweet The long lost Elseworlds 80-Page Giant is recalled in a splash page gallery of Golden Age tales that never were at Again with the Comics. Link via Comics Alliance.
All the old José Luis García-López you could want
04/10/2009 by Leave a Comment
Tweet Not far-fetched at all. So it’s settled then, right? Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez is the best artists in comics, right? I know, I know… “best” is a highly subjective term, so let’s get it clear: Garcia-Lopez can draw just about anything with masterful elegance and natural subtlety. He can make the mundane seem compelling and [...]
You can never have enough…Alex Raymond
04/03/2009 by Leave a Comment
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