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Dick Cole was known as “America’s Number One School Star.” He was enjoyed enough in the 40’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,…
With a cover title like “True Stories of Famous Western Gun Gals” it was almost assured to draw the attention of both readers and the anti-comic psychiatrist Fredric…
Famous Funnies #15 from October 1935 is by far the oldest comic in my collection. I’ve covered Famous Funnies before (after all it did run from 1934 to…
National Comics was a successful series for Quality, running 75 issues from July 1940 – December 1949. Cover art for National Comics #6 from publisher Quality (December 1940)…
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…
Junior Miss (at least in its volume #2 Marvel, 1947 series from issues #24 to #34) was a vehicle for Marvel’s popular gal Cindy. The “Cindy and boy…
Popular Comics #54 was a Dell Comics / Western Publishing production, published on August 1940. My attraction was primarily the motorcycle cover (featuring Gang Busters). But there is much more…
Alex Schomburg did some cool robot covers. One of the best was Mystery Comics #3 from publisher Better / Nedor / Standard / Pines that was printed October 1944….
All-New Comics #6 (January 1944) was published by Harvey. The wild cover has a bit of everything; no less than two motorcycle images, a U.S. flag waving over…