1939 The first story of the Batman, created by Bob Kanes, hits the newsstands in Detective Comics #27. Gygax is to Gaming what Kirby was to comics Alas poor...
1937 July Back in Ohio, Clark learns of an underground coal mine collapse in Lawrence County. Being able to run hundreds of miles per hour, Superman is able to...
April 1939 New York City Police Commissioner Gordon is entertaining his friend, Bruce Wayne, when they are called to a murder scene. Lambert, the "Chemical...
June 1939 Dr. Karl Hellfern has synthesized from pollen a new poison, but unable to reap the rewards he feels he's due from it, he goes mad and decides to...
1938 The Golden Age of Comics begins as Action Comics #1, featuring the worlds first super-hero, Superman, is officially released. Note: Superman is the...
July 1939 Not long after Dr. Death has escaped from prison, rich people begin turning up dead from an unknown "disease." Bruce Wayne investigates by...
I read this earlier and immediately thought of Scott for some reason. In 1964, a freighter carrying 6,000 sheep capsized and sank in a Kuwait harbor. With so...
... Kuwait harbor. With so many dead animals underwater, Kuwaitis worried that the rotting carcasses would pollute the water. A way had to be found to lift the...
scottenkainen <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Thanks for sharing here, Ken! I'm going to just assume it was the Disney characters and not the 6,000 dead...
... Goodness! I'm not going to start publicly cataloging my sob stories here. I'll do that via private e-mail if anyone is really interested. The only comic...
August 1939 The Batman is surprised one night to see his recently engaged fiancee, Julie Madison, brandishing a knife at a man. The Batman intercepts Julie and...
September 1939 The Batman has been pursuing Julie for weeks, but a woman named Dala boarded a steamship bound for southern France with Julie, forcing the ...
Gygax is to Gaming what Kirby was to comics Alas poor Elric I was a thousand times more evil than you Slice N Dice: Game and Pizza Parlour WWBYD What would...
The first year's worth of Batman in Detective Comics was not a good indication of how good this character would become. The stories are a chaotic jumble of...
October 1939 Bruce Wayne is out for an evening stroll through Manhattan when a red- and-yellow dirigible in the sky casts red lights on the skyline. Abruptly,...
August 1938 One day, George Taylor calls Clark Kent into his office to meet Nick Williams, "Superman's personal manager." Williams wants Kent to write more...
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1918 Birth: Irwin Hasen, Golden Age comic artist. 1963 Birth: Whilce Portacio, comic artist. 1971 Birth: Brian LeBlanc, comic artist. Gygax is to Gaming what...
Thanks, Ken. You do Superland a great service by keeping up on the Disney-related side of this group that I all too often give short shrift. Hopefully, I'll...
Well I really love the idea and enjoy the PBEM, so I keep my eye out :) ken Gygax is to Gaming what Kirby was to comics Alas poor Elric I was a thousand times...
I remember a while ago when I was talking to Scott, I asked him what modern day heroes would be included in Superland. Well, a lot of reading later I think I...
Hi all, ... Do feel free, Ken #2! Speculating which titles could or should hit the 100-issue mark is certainly Superland-relevant. David/Capt. Comet talked me...
Gygax is to Gaming what Kirby was to comics Alas poor Elric I was a thousand times more evil than you Slice N Dice: Game and Pizza Parlour WWBYD What would...
November 1938 In juvenile court, Frankie Marello is indicted on assault and battery charges, despite the fervent pleas of his mother who argued that Frankie's...
Hmm...it's spam...but it's also anti-Bush....Decisions, decisions. Hmm, nope. I'll have to delete it from the archives, remove the new member, and apologize to...
December 1938 The Chief of the Cleveland Police holds a press conference to introduce Capt. Reilly of the Chicago Police Dept. – the detective with an arrest...
February 1939 A reporter from the Daily Star is mysteriously summoned to an address in Cleveland and Clark Kent is sent. There, he meets Walter Crane, a...
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