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Happy Thanksgiving 2011!

Nov 24th, 2011
by Bill Jourdain.
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Happy Thanksgiving 2011 from the Golden Age of Comic Books!

Happy Halloween from the Golden Age of Comic Books!

Oct 7th, 2011
by Bill Jourdain.
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Here’s a classic Golden Age Halloween cover from the fall of 1945.  Comic Cavalcade was a great anthology book published by DC, featuring The Flash, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman.  Although this title saw 64 continuous issues published until 1954, the superheroes ended their run with issue #29 in 1948.  The funny animals took over [...]

Big All-American Comic Book

Dec 20th, 2008
by Bill Jourdain.
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As I was writing about the Dell Giants, I remembered that DC also had a large comic book of its own during the Golden Age, The Big All-American Comic Book (December 1944).  This one shot was 132 pages and had a 25 cent cover price. While many of the All-American heroes appeared on the cover [...]

Golden Age Thanksgiving Covers

Nov 25th, 2008
by Bill Jourdain.
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As we are about to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, I thought it would be fun to mention some Thanksgiving covers from the Golden Age of Comic Books.  As I’ve discussed several times on the Podcast, there are many Christmas covers to be found, but when it comes to covers featuring a [...]

Golden Age of Comic Books – August 15, 2005 – #11

Aug 15th, 2005
by Bill Jourdain.
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In this episode we discuss the Golden Age Flash from DC Comics.  The Flash made his first appearance in Flash Comics #1.   Golden Age of Comic Books Podcast #11 (Standard MP3)

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