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...
Anyone who was reading Marvel comics in the 1990's and really paying attention should remember Chris Giarrusso's Mini-Marvel comic strips on the Bullpen page...
thanks for the info have to check it out Ken Gygax is to Gaming what Kirby was to comics Alas poor Elric I was a thousand times more evil than you Slice N...
Spurred on by a thought I had while recommending G-Man, I decided to come up with a top 10 list of still-living artists I'd love to see draw a Superland comic...
When I was looking at Action Comics #9, I had considered replacing Det. Reilly with Dick Tracy and making it a serious story. However, I enjoy the funny side...
I'd say use your own judgement on that one, though personally, the last option is my favorite of the three. scottenkainen <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:When...
Pollution wasn't a big issue back then and we can assume Superman put out the fire after the lesson was taught [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Thanks, Brad and David, for the thoughts. As you can see, I've pulled back from online gaming for now to concentrate on just my AD&D campaign and Superland....
Looking back at the message archives, I see I haven't done a top ten comics list since last September. Today, I tried to compose a new top ten reading list of...
March 1939 Clark Kent is in the press room of the Cleveland Courthouse when he overhears a report of a suicide in a broker's office. Kent heads straight to the...
I'm so out of modern comic books...I didn't know until tonight that DC had done a three-issue Elseworlds series setting its atomic/silver age heroes in a "more...
Revised Superland Artist Wishlist 1. Alex Toth 2. Paul Smith 3. Frank Frazetta 4. Joe Kubert 5. Jeff Smith 6. Neal Adams 7. John Byrne 8. Steve Ditko 9. George...
April 1939 When a "hit-skip" accident happens outside the Daily Star offices, Clark Kent is shocked to see the victim is Charlie Martin, a colleague. A furious...
One of my purchases at this world's WizardWorld convention was _Captain America: the Classic Years_, v. 2. My only previous experience reading the golden age...
First off, I'd like to point out that I changed my address for this group to my normal e-mail address, ken.butler@.... I had started the previous address...
... I checked out New Gods today. < You can see from my "A Comics" file that I graded Kirby's Fourth World stuff fairly (though not consistently) highly. They...
... Really? Because 100 appearances also counts, doesn't it? I mean, Darkseid is a huge villain and I'm sure he's been in plenty of stories between now and the...
... Darkseid is a huge villain and I'm sure he's been in plenty of stories between now and the 1970s. I've seen Orion and Mr. Miracle in a lot of them too, I...
"Captain America and the Red Skull" (Capt. America #7). Grade: C-. Very disappointing, since my expectations were particularly high for this story. In it, you...
"Captain America and the White Death" (Capt. America #9). Grade: A- . A good mystery yarn with the best art in the collection. "Captain America and the Man...
May 1939 Clark Kent is riding in a taxi cab when another cab rams his. The driver of the second cab gets out and roughs up Kent's driver until Kent shouts for...
June 1939 A subway has collapsed under Cleveland, leaving scores injured. Superman investigates and discovers substandard concrete used in the subways. While...
July 1939 Clark Kent is assigned by his editor at the Daily Star to speak to Mr. Holloway, the founder of Kidtown. Kidtown is Ohio's answer to Nebraska's Home...
Superman and Tarzan round up the administrative staff for the mine, bring them into the mine, and Superman threatens to bring the tunnel down around them if...
When the adventure is over, Superman and Tarzan retrieve the bullion and sell it, split the profits, and each make a half-million dollars. Superman has more...
MAN WHO SANK THE MARK TWAIN Now it can be told. Terry O'Brien sank the ship at Disneyland. If you read accounts about the opening of the park 50 years ago, you...
December 2, 1955. President Mbuka crouched under the table and watched the giant, colorless, impossibly thin, cat-like monster hiss at fleeing tourists and...
I'm looking at Gregor Dallas' book 1945: the War That Never Ended right now. I don't have time for 700+ page books, but I've read a review of it and skimmed...
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