Rest in peace, dad. Thanks for those weekends at grandma’s house and so many other great adventures. As strongly as we celebrate the birth, we equally mourn the…
Carl Barks was the Disney Studio illustrator behind the creation of the city of Duckburg and most of its imaginative residents. Adding to already established Disney characters Donald…
Oh boy, what a cover! Notice how the shards of glass in the background window appear like jagged teeth, the entire pane creating the gaping jaws of a…
There were a lot of comics with the word “confession” in the title during the romance comic craze of the 1950’s. But in my opinion, from that whole…
American pulp writer Johnston McCulley debuted Zorro (Spanish for fox) in the novel The Curse of Capistrano. The story was published over five installments starting August 9, 1919…
The Hawk was a comic series that ran for twelve issues. The first three were published by Ziff Davis, while St. John carried on publishing issues #4 through…
Due to the incredible decades long popularity of the Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun it is forgivable to assume the comic character Red Ryder was derived from it….
Artist Matt Baker and writer Dana Dutch were the Leonardo Da Vinci and William Shakespeare of romance comics in the 1950’s. The cover of True Love Pictorial #11…
Origin Story The concept of “automaton” is derived from the Greek word αὐτόματον, meaning “acting of one’s own will.” The first automated robotic persona emerged in Greek mythology…