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Celebrating Memorial Day with the Golden Age of Comic Books

In memory of the many soldiers who have served our country with bravery and honor, here are a few Batman and Superman covers from the Golden Age of Comic Books that honored our troops during World War II.

Nothing But Batman

Our friend and fellow blogger Pat Curley of the Silver Age of Comic Books, has done it again with his new blog, Nothing But Batman.  His most recent post features the Batman & Robin story from World’s Finest Comics #51 (April-May 1951), “The Academy for Gangsters”. From one Batman fan to another, thanks for this [...]

Golden Age Reprints – Superman Chronicles Volume 6

I was pleased to see that more classic Golden Age reprints hit the stands last week with the publication of The Superman Chronicles#6.  The Chronicles series is devoted to reprinting all of the adventures of Batman and Superman in chronological order from their first appearances.  I noticed that DC is also going to begin a [...]

Golden Age of Comic Books – November 14, 2005 – #24

In this episode, we cover the Boy Commandos who made their first appearance in Detective Comics #65 (July 1942) and later got their own title that debuted with issue #1 in the winter of 1942-43.  The Boy Commandos were created by the great Golden Age team of Jack Kirby and Joe Simon (of Captain America [...]

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