Hot on the heels of DC’s Superman Chronicles Volume 6 released last week, on Wednesday Marvel will release Marvel Masterworks Atlas Era Strange Tales, Volume 2. If you like the pre-code suspense/horror books from the very end of the Golden Age of comics, this second collection of Atlas’s Strange Tales title is right up your [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2009’
Golden Age Reprints – Superman Chronicles Volume 6
I was pleased to see that more classic Golden Age reprints hit the stands last week with the publication of The Superman Chronicles#6. The Chronicles series is devoted to reprinting all of the adventures of Batman and Superman in chronological order from their first appearances. I noticed that DC is also going to begin a [...]
The Ten Cent Plague
A short post here to mention a really great book by David Hajdu, The Ten Cent Plague. Published in 2008, Hajdu’s book explores the effect of the “comics scare” related to crime and horror comics that occured just after World War II until the early 1950′s. This book is very well researched and is a [...]
Love is in the Air
Having just celebrated Valentine’s Day, I started thinking about the birth of the romance comics in the Golden Age of Comic Books. Honestly, I don’t consider myself an expert on this genre, and I’ve read very few Golden Age romance comics over the years, but there is no disputing that romance comics became very popular [...]
The Year of the Bat
Last year there was much said about the 70th anniversary of the “birth” of Superman (and the Golden Age of Comic Books) in Action Comics #1 (1938). It’s a new year, and there’s more cause for celebration, as 2009 is the year of the Bat – the 70th anniversary of the birth of Batman in [...]