Heroes Con 2010 is now history, but it was a blast! Will and I spent most of our time with good friend and “super dealer”, Earl Shaw at his booth selling the heck out of comics. The time at Earl’s booth was especially enjoyable as the legendary Chuck Rozanski spent most of the show there […]
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Classic comics image drawn by Roy G Krenkel. If you like his work, find out more about him and see nearly all (?) of his work at Golden Age Comic Book Stories.
Thanks to Michael May for calling my attention to this awesome drawing. You can check out his blog, too.
WADE
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Back when war was popular — the WWII era up to the Eisenhower administration — Captain America was our national superhero. And the bad guys were the Commies — they were EVERYWHERE. Fortunately we had Richard Nixon there to sniff them out (this was before he became president).
Anticipating the new movie reviving Cappy (as he is fondly called), Golden Age of Comic Books has reprints of his classic adventures available for you to enjoy.
So go enjoy!
WADE
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Apple’s iPad has received a lot of media attention lately. It is a revolutionary device that will likely become the electronic book reader of choice for millions of people who prefer to carry their portable libraries stored away in bits and bytes. Being a fan of comics, I was immediately intrigued by this new reader, […]
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The LA Times ran an awesome article about 1950’s horror comics on Halloween. It’s actually a review of a book detailing the gory history.
You can read the review here, and then decide if you have the courage to go read the book!
Bwwaaa-haaa-haaa-haaa
WADE
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My focus was usually on Super Hero comics. But I admit I read a lot of ARCHIE comics while growing up. It was before the TV cartoon of “The Archies” — which I thought pretty lame. The gags were lame, and the stories lame … but it was all about the comic babes — Betty and Veronica. Whoa — imagine reaching puberty in about 1967 or 68 —
I’d better yield the floor to our host RSS feed — before I really make an embarrassing revelation.
— After the jump, of course.
WADE
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