Number 16COVERING IT: Classic Golden Age Comics Covers Part 5Click on picture for larger image.In the neverending quest of Pappy's Golden Age Comic Book Blogzine to overwhelm its readers with trivia and unimportant stuff [...]

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The Spiderman TV Cartoon

I don't remember the original 1960s run of these cartoons, but recall them more from the early 1970s in the afternoon. As you can see, the quality is pretty mediocre, and it would get worse before the end of the run (this was the tenth episode). Most [...]

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 Number 15 Ivan's WoeSwiping has a long tradition in the history of comic books. What it means to swipe is for artist John Jones to steal a figure, a pose, a gun, a tree, from artist Sam Smith, incorporate it [...]

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Number 14 COVERING IT: Classic Golden Age Comic Book Covers, Part 4Click on picture for larger image.L. B. Cole was a cover artist who understood how to make his covers stand out on the newsstand.This is one of my personal [...]

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Number 13Walt Kelly's The Brownies in The Funnybody KingdomI don't think I can say much about the genius cartoonist Walt Kelly that hasn't already been said.About all I can say is that he was liberal and progressive in one [...]

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Number 12 COVERING IT: Classic Golden Age Comic Book Covers, Part 3 Click on picture for larger image.Charles Biro did some intriguing covers for books he edited. Crime Does Not Pay was his brainchild, and he did most of [...]

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DC, The Home of WeirDCrooks

In the Golden Age, it was seldom necessary to give criminals a motivation. They were just crooks, simple as that. Some of them (Luthor notably) also were mad scientists, a bogeyman familiar to youngsters from the TV and [...]

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Number 11Machine Gun KellyIn the 1940s when crime comic books appeared in the form of Crime Does Not Pay, reading about gangsters and criminals was nothing new. Stories about lawbreakers go back as far as the beginnings [...]

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Number 10The Lonely Life Of Homer HergisYears ago I was given a collection of stories cut out of various comics from the 1940s, '50s and into the early '60s. I had to go through the box and assemble pages into coherent order, [...]

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Fantastic Four Annual #1

As I have discussed earlier, DC's success with "Annuals" (really 80-page reprint mags) resulted in Marvel looking to add this profitable niche to its line. The problem was that Marvel had not been publishing their superheros [...]

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Number 9 COVERING IT: Classic Golden Age Comic Book Covers, Part II.These three classic covers of Tales From The Crypt, all drawn by editor/artist Al Feldstein, form a terrifying triptych of living guys and living dead guys.These [...]

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Number 8 Don't Bury Me DeepThere's no room for subtlety in a 7-page comic book story, and especially no subtlety in a horror comic book story. Since the lead character is most likely going to get it in the end, it has to [...]

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