Link: The End of a Beautiful Friendship: Creators’ Rights
The fight over creators’ rights seems like ancient lore these days, but for those of us who remember Destroyer Duck and all the fuss that Read More
Category: Superheroes
The Strangest Northerns: Fawcett Style
Fawcett Comics was the big rival for DC back in the 1940s. Science Fiction writers like Manly Wade Wellman and Alfred Bester penned the craziest Read More
Link: Lois Lane, Jungle Girl
The early days of superheroes were pretty simple. You created a weird character and you threw villains at him. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman; they just Read More
Link: Lena Thorul, Jungle Princess
The 1960s get a lot of press for being a time of civil unrest, counter culture, and music. Another thing it was, was a time Read More
Link: While You Wait (for Superman) Classics: Dr. Occult
In 1935, while waiting to sell Superman to the comic strip syndicates, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created other comics to sell to the fledgling Read More
Fan Fury: If You Cut Me, Do I Not Bleed in Four Colors?
I have been spending the last three months on research – that essentially means taking apart scans of Pulps so that I can aggregate the Read More
Post-Apocalyptic Heroes: Samson and Hercules
Selling a comic based on straight mythology is a tough go. Wonder Woman is an Amazon but the myths are all in the background. Same Read More
Edmond Hamilton Comics: 1950
1950 saw Edmond Hamilton settle into his regular schedule of writing comics. Each month he would produce several scripts for different DC titles, jumping from Read More
Edmond Hamilton Comics: 1940s
Edmond Hamilton was a comic book writer in the 1940s to 1960s. He wasn’t alone. Julius Schwartz, Mort Weisinger, Otto Binder, Alfred Bester, Henry Kuttner, Read More
The Strangest Northerns Ever: Marvel Style
Tales of the north as a sub-genre date back to the Franklin Expedition, then the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. Northerns in Marvel Comics, those Read More