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...
I'll say this upfront – I don't give a single one of these stories an A+. There are two things holding back my enjoyment. One, they are just too short....
"I am fine, Ghost Who Walks!" President Mbuka called back. "Perfect," the Phantom said, "now only if – oof!" Cat Nipp had turned its arms backwards and...
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I turned this up on a NARA CD-ROM of 100 significant documents. Anyone familiar with this? Fox Publications, Inc., filed a complaint on January 13, 1941,...
so how did the case come 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 Dice: Game and...
... Hi, Ken. The document doesn't say. I'm guessing it was settled out of court or in district court, because if it had gone higher than that it surely would...
January 23, 1956. Monday evening at the Superhero Clubhouse, Disneyland City. "As rotating chairperson of the Guardians, I call this meeting to order," Mary...
"Five of us will be active members in the revived Justice Society – Batman, Aquaman, Green Arrow, Wonder Woman, and me," Superman said. "That should be quite...
"I think he's trying to ask us to join," Blue Beetle said. Mickey Mouse spread out his hands and smiled, as if expecting applause. Instead, the assembled...
"And I'm sure we've all noticed Mr. Terrific didn't even bother showing up in costume for today's meeting," Blue Beetle said. "Gentlemen," Mary Marvel said...
June 14, 1938. Clark Kent closed the comic book. The experience had been eerie, far more so than reading about his exploits in the newspapers. This Jerry...
Sigh. Reviewing my own archives tonight, I was reminded that Mr. Terrific and Mary Marvel were both on Rann at the end of the campaign, meaning they could not...
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August 1939. Superman is lucky enough to spot a man trying to commit suicide by jumping out of a tree with a noose around his neck. After a rescue in...
July 19, 1938. It was a gorgeous Tuesday in Cleveland, Ohio – outdoors. In the office of George Taylor, editor of the Daily Star, the outlook was less rosy....
"Are you alright, Walter?" another reporter asked. Walter started to blink and looked around himself, dazed. "I'm terribly sorry, Walter," Kent said, glad...
Then Walter, barely suppressing a smirk, spilled coffee from his mug all over Kent's rewrite. "Oh!" Walter exclaimed, suddenly feigning dizziness. "I got so ...
September 1939. The steamship Clarion sends out an SOS from Lake Erie, having caught fire during a storm. The Coast Guard sends out a rescue boat that is...
Reviewing GCD (the Grand Comics Database), I see that the "original" stories from Superman #2-3 are in fact culled from the newspaper dailies, and can even be...
I noticed the three "ruminations" documents are now missing from the JSA1951 group, for which I had written them. I only have a surviving copy of the third...
August 23, 1938. Robert Maxwell tried to look him in the eye, but there was something about that gaze that made him not dare to try direct contact. No matter...
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