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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Robin’
The Origin of the Bat Cave
A while back I posted about Dick Sprang’s “Secrets of the Batcave” lithograph. While I was looking at my print, I realized that I did not know the exact origin of the Batcave in comics. Of course, there is a memorable cover devoted to the “1,000 Secrets of the Batcave” (Batman #48, August-September 1948), but [...]
The Secrets of the Batcave
I was over at the Silver Age of Comic Books blog reading Pat’s latest post about Dick Sprang, and couldn’t help but think about once of my favorite pieces of Batman memorabilia that really captures the essence of the Golden Age Batman from the mid-1940′s through the mid-1950′s. In 1995, Sprang created a large format [...]
The Strange Case of “The Pink Eyebrow”
There’s a lot of wacky stuff out there in Golden Age comics books if you know where to look. One of the strangest I’ve come across in a while is the case of “The Pink Eyebrow”, from DC’s All Funny Comics #16 (March-April, 1947). All Funny was a anthology humor book that got its start [...]
Real Fact…Or Fiction?
In the Spring of 1946, DC Comics introduced a new title to its readers, Real Fact Comics. This anthology title was designed to present short stories detailing the “real facts” of the lives of famous individuals. The title ran for 21 issues until July-August 1949. Not only did the title provide biographical information about historical [...]