I'm Sure You've Heard This Before....

Usual comic book serendipity thing.  I was poking through some back issue bins at the local comic shop and I came across some issues of a comic called Myth Adventures, liked the cover art and picked a few up.So I'm reading these stories and really [...]

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676 - D149_-_The Castle in the Jungle_-_1965-07-28_(8115)_to_1965-10-16_(8184)_-_70_days

Here is the latest reprint of a Tarzan daily strip story, coutesy Emile. This had also been reprinted in a comic book in India, which had been posted long time ago in this very same blog.Download the story here and shower [...]

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Angel & Ape #2

Of all the quirky titles that DC published near the end of the Silver Age, this must surely be the oddest.  Well, side from Brother Power the Geek.  This happens to be the only issue I own; I don't think I've even [...]

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Swiped and Then Swiped Again

Mort Weisinger's enthusiasm for swiping story ideas from earlier issues of Superboy does not seem as high as it was for Adventure Comics, but here's a pretty impressive example of a double swipe.  For starters, here [...]

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675 - Some Flash Gordon Sunday strips

Courtesy, Emile, we have some Flash Gordon Sunday strips. S176 was the last Sunday strip drawn by Dan Barry (the brother of Sy Barry, who drew the Phantom). S177 was a reprint of an earlier Dan Barry comic strip. S178 thru S188 was drawn by a group of [...]

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Mort Weisinger's Idea of Funny

What the? From Superboy #72 (April 1959):Why would he put that postscript in there?  He had to know that there were plenty of Superboy readers who were still at the age where they believed in Santa.  It's hard [...]

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A Wink from Clark

Reading through the Silver Age Superboy, I noticed how many stories ended with this:The winks tend to happen at the end of secret identity stories; I'm sure there are plenty of examples in Superman as well.This is somewhat [...]

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