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Colossal Features Magazine: “Classic ‘Women in Prison’ Cover”

During the Golden Age of comic books, which roughly spanned from the late 1930s to the early 1950s, the medium saw a rich exploration of various genres and…

Secret Mysteries

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…

Gangsters Can’t Win

Famous Gangsters, Gangsters and Gun Molls, Murderous Gangsters, Guns Against Gangsters and Gangsters Can’t Win.  Comic industry presses were churning out more issues of crime comics than Frankie…

Down with Crime

Down with Crime #7* was on my want list for a long while.  A few years ago, this was an inexpensive book (if you could find one).  But…

Undercover Girl

Undercover Girl, Starr Flagg  #6 was published by Magazine Enterprises and is dated January 1953.  Classic motorcycle cover art by Bob Powell. The titled lasted just three issues.  It contained inside…

Thrilling Crime Cases

Thrilling Crime Cases #46 from Star Publications October 1951 is another very cool L.B. Cole cover, complete with motorcycle cover.

Super Comics

What in the world is Super Comics #38* (July 1941) published by Dell doing on Good Girl Comics?  A fair question. I might respond, what in the world is…

Shadow Comics

Street and Smith Publications Inc. was one of the leading pulp magazine publishers. Starting out with dime novels clear back into the 1800s, they moved to pulps in…

Saint

The Saint comic books were a small part of what detective-mystery book author Leslie Charteris wrote for the Simon Templar (aka The Saint) character. Starting from numerous novels an…

Jane Arden (Pageant of Comics)

Seems I’ve always had a thing for the comic gals.  I collected Spider Woman and Red Sonja back in the day with my paper route money, and many…