
Treasury Edition 01 – Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics
In this special Treasury Edition we take a break from looking at comics to review the first episode of Robert Kirkman’s new documentary series…
Read MoreIn this special Treasury Edition we take a break from looking at comics to review the first episode of Robert Kirkman’s new documentary series…
Read MoreThis episode briefly looks at war comics and Jack Kirby’s work for the final issues of Battle at the end of the fifties. We…
Read MoreWe take a quick peek at the type of Romance anthology comic that the Marvel team was producing just before they created the superhero…
Read MoreHow the idea of the Marvel interconnected universe – where heroes would crossover or “guest star” in each other’s books – first occurred in…
Read MoreJoe Simon and Jack Kirby’s Young Romance #1 (1947) launched the genre of the Romance comic which, at one point in the 1950s, sold…
Read MorePatsy Walker’s first appearance is in Miss America Magazine #2. Nov 1944 cover date in a seven page introductory story pencilled and inked by…
Read MoreIn her excellent history of American Romance comics, Love on the Racks, Michelle Nolan describes Venus as Marvel’s first attempt to match a character…
Read MoreNever to underestimate a trend, Atlas produced 3 imitations of MAD within months of the comic’s first issue – Crazy, Wild and Riot (3…
Read MoreDippy Duck was the last of Timely/Atlas’ Animal Funnies with a cover date of October 1957. It’s also the last comic to bear the…
Read MoreHomer the Happy Ghost was a bi-monthly kids humour comic that ran for 22 issues between 1955 and 1958. It was clearly another of…
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