May 18, 2009
Hitting newsstands exactly 70 years ago today, May 18, 1939:
Today In History
Writer. Editor. Troubleshooter. Troublemaker.
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Jan 18, 2010
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Jan 11, 2010
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Jan 04, 2010I don’t… …I… …they seem to be making this out to be a more difficult decision than it really ought to be. Maybe I’m just puzzled that they seem determined that they absolutely must shoot SOMETHING. Is it just me?
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Dec 28, 2009
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Dec 22, 2009
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Dec 21, 2009
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Dec 14, 2009In one image, the entire history of my relationship with women.
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Dec 07, 2009“Or lynching.” (Speaking of “hands are tied” and all….)
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Nov 30, 2009He has a cigarette machine built into his arm. That’s kind of the total opposite of crimefighting, in a way.
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Nov 23, 2009I don’t wanna know.
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Nov 09, 2009Previously in “Great Moments In Comics”: Jimmy Olsen blew up an entire mountain. And himself with it. I can’t get away from this story. It’s just too rich not to milk. So, more. It’s all from SUPERMAN’S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #93, the first issue published after the Adam West BATMAN show proved to be a... more
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Nov 02, 2009The only thing that keeps this from being the greatest Jimmy Olsen story ever is that it doesn’t end here. Let’s just pretend that it does.
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Oct 12, 2009So in 1978, DC Comics included a Reader Survey in some of its books. (It was clearly a regional thing; I’d never seen one until BOOM! publisher Ross Richie stumbled across one in an old FIRESTORM at the Long Beach Comicon last weekend.) The questions were the usual sort of demographic-gathering... more
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Oct 05, 2009Don’t worry. He survives. By circling Saturn and coming back home. True.
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Sep 28, 2009This week, I’m being sincere: this is my favorite page of comic art I’ve seen all year. From last week’s POWER GIRL #5, art by Amanda Connor:
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Sep 21, 2009I don’t even know where to start.
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Sep 14, 2009Subcategory: When artists, writers, AND colorists are all working at cross-purposes: Hint: the key words are “gloved hands.”
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Sep 07, 2009“Mass hysteria!” — Peter Venkman, 1984.
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Aug 31, 2009Batman’s broken heart: Wait. It gets better.
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Aug 23, 2009I don’t consider myself to be unusually squeamish… …but if I had seen this when I was five, I would have wept the bitter, stinging tears of a vaporized childhood.
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Aug 17, 2009Romance comics. So wholesome. So innocent.
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Aug 10, 2009Bucky and a friend try to disguise themselves as the Red Skull: Unsurprisingly, it does not go well. This is from 1941’s YOUNG ALLIES #1. I could sustain an entire blog on this one comic book.
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Aug 03, 2009The panel that launched a thousand Grant Morrison scripts:
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Jul 27, 2009Can’t decide whether you’d rather read a story about bears or a story about ghosts? I HAVE GOOD NEWS.
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Jul 20, 2009
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Jul 19, 2009Thrilling, I tell you. Thrilling.
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Jul 12, 2009Y Kant Superman Read?
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Jul 05, 2009Tell me you don’t want to read this story RIGHT NOW. Go ahead. Tell me. You are a LIAR.
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Jun 29, 2009
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Jun 22, 2009Subcategory–Favorite Things Green Arrow Just Happens To Carry Around In His Quiver:
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Jun 15, 2009Greatest Title for a Hulk story EVER: To be fair, it is only a Hostess ad. And Twinkies save the day. But the title makes me laugh out loud every time. “This Monster–THIS DECISION!”
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Jun 14, 2009Earth-2 discovered by Flash. Don’t look at me like that, I don’t make this stuff up.
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Jun 08, 2009Subcategory: Perfectly innocent ads. From the Charlton comics of summer 1985:
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May 25, 2009I would bet you everything I own that the sound effect was added by the editor, not the writer. I loved Julius Schwartz like a grandfather, but he was not a fan of the more subtle moments.
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May 18, 2009Dream on, pal.
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May 18, 2009Hitting newsstands exactly 70 years ago today, May 18, 1939:
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May 11, 2009Danger: Criminal masterminds at work.
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May 04, 2009I’m pretty sure this is not how to act on a date.
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Apr 26, 2009Favorite Legion of Substitute Heroes member? Easy. Fire Lad. Why? Because he was the one who was already wearing his costume even before he unexpectedly got super-powers.
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Apr 20, 2009Slowest. News day. Imaginable.
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Apr 13, 2009Man, what rotten luck.
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Apr 10, 2009Drawn & Quarterly announced this morning that October marks the release of a collection of one of my favorite, least-remembered comics series: Thirteen Going On Eighteen by John Stanley. One of the more successful Dell Comics runs of the 1960s, Thirteen is (a) an absolute riot of (b) brilliant... more
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Apr 06, 2009Waid: “Someday, I want to get around to doing a compilation of all the times Luthor pretended to go straight.” Peyer: “There isn’t a book big enough to hold it.”
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Mar 31, 2009Tonight is the night of March 31st. Be careful out there tomorrow. Anything could happen.
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Mar 30, 2009Note the eyepatch.
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Mar 23, 2009All aboard.
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Mar 16, 2009Special Exhibition Tonight at the Metropolis Museum of Art: FAMOUS FARM ANIMALS OF HISTORY. Name TWO.
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Mar 09, 2009Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the least fearsome criminals in all of Gotham City: the Yellow Sweater Gang.
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Mar 02, 2009September 9, 1994. No, I didn’t remove any balloons. I didn’t touch this, my hand to God. I don’t think I ever read another newspaper comic strip after this.
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Feb 23, 2009It’s the “Featuring” blurb that just kills me. Next issue: “I Make The Handcuffs!” WHO WAS BUYING THESE COMICS? Edited to add: What hell time is it? One-thirty-o’clock?
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Feb 16, 2009I don’t even think this one needs a caption.
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Feb 09, 2009“Cuff him, boys!”
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Feb 02, 2009The dream: to be able to write comics in 1957, when people were SO MUCH MORE EASILY ENTERTAINED.
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Jan 27, 2009This is actually the OPPOSITE of suspense.
