I recently learned that Comics NOW! magazine has ceased publication. While this did not suprise me a great deal as I know how difficult it is for a new publication to develop a strong readership, I was still saddened by the news. Bryan and the rest of the comic book podcasters worked hard to make this [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
Golden Age Reprints – The Batman Annuals Volume 1
Back in early December, I posted about the upcoming DC Comics Classic Library Series featuring the first three Batman Annuals. Well, the wait is over as DC released The Batman Annuals, Volume 1 hardcover this week. Back in the early 1960′s when DC first published these annuals, it was a great way for fans of the [...]
The Year of the Bat – 70 Years Old Today!
It’s April 18, the 70th Anniversary of Batman’s first appearance in the pages of Detective Comics #27. The introduction of this masked adventurer by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, with later major contributions by Jerry Robinson, Sheldon Moldoff, Dick Sprang, Gardner Fox, George Roussous and many, many others kicked off not only a new addition to [...]
The Year of the Bat, Part 3 – The Batmobile
In my previous post detailing the first year of Batman’s life in the comics, I mentioned a lot of aspects of the character that not only defined him, but made him an extremely popular superhero in the early Golden Age of comic books. As time went by in Batman’s life, it became clear that his great [...]
Are the Comics Bad for Children?
That was the question asked in the April 17th, 1942 issue of The Family Circle magazine a full decade before the attacks on comic books led by Fredric Wertham and Senator Estes Kefauver. Whereas they answered the question a resounding “yes” in the early 1950′s, this article reached the opposite conclusion. In fact, the article by [...]