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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…
Even before the United States began sending soldiers overseas to help reverse the global tsunami set in motion by the axis countries in World War II, the fledgling…
If you were to start collecting Golden Age comics from scratch today, it wouldn’t take long to run into “pedigree copies.” Thanks to original owners who collected comics…
I’ve been on a bit of an anthropomorphic funny animal spree of late. They have a good vibe to them, perfectly represented by this circa April 1945 handwritten…
Hollywood Comics #1* was published the winter of 1944. The cover evokes Hollywood with a “Vine” street sign bringing to mind its intersections with well known Melrose Ave,…
Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact was similar to True Comics in that it was aimed as a “healthy” alternative to standard comics of the day. It was…
From today’s perspective (based on comic superhero’s massive popularity in the movies) it might be surprising to know that True Comics was a relatively popular comic series. It…
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…
Dick Cole was known as “America’s Number One School Star.” He was enjoyed enough in the 1940’s to get his own 30-minute radio program. Dick mainly appeared in…
By now (my 220th post) it’s a well worn story. Golden age comic books emerged from the great depression and superheros boomed during World War II. Post war,…