Happy Thanksgiving 2011 from the Golden Age of Comic Books!
Posts Tagged ‘Wonder Woman’
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 [...]
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 [...]
Golden Age of Comics – April 25, 2007 – #51
In this episode of the Golden Age of Comic Books we talk about DC’s Black Canary. She made her first in Flash Comics #86 (August, 1947) in a Johnny Thunder story. Her popularity skyrocketed to the point that a few issues later she knocked Johnny Thunder out of the comic and started her solo run [...]
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