Licensed comics were pretty common in the Silver Age. It's not hard to see the appeal to the publishers; you can argue that every episode of the TV show you're covering is an advertisement for the comic as well. As [...]
Redrawn Faces in MSH #14?
Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Bảy, 24 tháng 11, 2012
It is well-known that when Jack Kirby came over to DC in the early 1970s and started working on Jimmy Olsen as well as other titles, that Superman and Jimmy Olsen's faces were redrawn by DC staff artists like Al Plastino [...]
A different Tarzan
Người đăng: lecuongle
Here is the first of the Tarzan stories published by Dynamite Comics. Enjoy.http://www.mediafire.com/?81g5ws4re3gv [...]
Lois Lane's "Fictional" Adventures
Người đăng: lecuongle on Chủ Nhật, 11 tháng 11, 2012
From Lois Lane Annual #1, comes this list of "famous" old Lois Lane tales: Why the scare quotes? Well, it turns out that a few of these stories never existed. Action Comics #20 is the January 1940 issue, and the (untitled) [...]
Walt Simonson's First Published Work?
Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Tư, 7 tháng 11, 2012
From Magnus, Robot Fighter #10, May 1965, about 8 years before his first official work for DC (Weird War Tales) and about the same amount of time before his famed work on Manhunter, one of my favorite series of all time. [...]
In Search of... Aliens
Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Hai, 5 tháng 11, 2012
A reader named Darell writes:When I was young, before I started collecting comics (I collected and traded them between 1960 and 1966) I used to read my uncle's. This would have been in the very early sixties, 1961 to 63 probably (he was about 16). I [...]
A Really Big Shoe
Người đăng: lecuongle on Chủ Nhật, 4 tháng 11, 2012
Superman gets emphatic at the UN: This refers to a famous supposed incident when Nikita Kruschev, then ruler of the Soviet Union, supposedly banged his shoe on the desk in anger during a debate at the United Nations. This [...]
