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Art by Matt Baker
“Northwest Mounties” refers to the Royal Northwest Mounted Police (RNWMP), which was a predecessor to the modern Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). The RNWMP was established in 1873…
Let’s just get the tragic parts of this story out of the way. Archer St. John, owner/editor of St. John Publishing overdosed on sleeping pills in 1955, at…
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…
Canteen Kate #2* by publisher St. John is from August 1952. It’s generally prized due to having been created by Matt Baker from cover to cover. The great…
Zoot Comics started out as a part of the “funny animal” genre of comic books that was popular in the mid-20th. The series featured anthropomorphic animal characters, such…
The Cosmic Aeroplane pedigree is named after a bookstore in Salt Lake City, Utah where partners David Faggiola and Ken Sanders sold a large collection of comics with distinct…
L.B. Cole was ahead of his time. Considerably ahead, in fact, of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s black light posters and psychedelic movement in art, music and…
The creation of Rulah, Jungle Goddess is credited to Matt Baker. In fact, the undisputed champion of good girl art and artist famous for Fox’s Phantom Lady and…
Rangers Comics was first published in 1941 as Rangers of Freedom Comics, featuring a costume superhero team. After seven issues, the series was renamed Rangers Comics and continued…
So, who is this Phantom Lady you might ask? That’s a torrid tale that has taken many twists over the decades. Phantom Lady was one of the very…