Happy Thanksgiving 2011 from the Golden Age of Comic Books!
Posts Tagged ‘Green Lantern’
Happy Halloween from the Golden Age of Comic Books!
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 [...]
Green Lantern – First Flight
One of my favorite Golden Age superheroes is the Green Lantern (Alan Scott) who made his debut in the pages of All American Comics #16 (July 1940). I covered this honored member of the Justice Society of America in Podcast #15 (September 2005). Later, in the Silver Age of Comic Books, a new Green Lantern [...]
Big All-American Comic Book
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 [...]