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Category Archives: GLIMPSES INTO THE PAST
COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (8 January 2024)
This year’s second reminder that comic book covers can be awesome…
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Tagged Al Feldstein, Baffling Mysteries, covers, Dick Giordano, Doomsday + 1, Harry Anderson, Headline Comics, Ira Schnapp, Jack Adler, Joe Maneely, John Byrne, Louis Zansky, Marvel Tales, Murphy Anderson, Mystery in Space, Mystery Tales, Richard Corben, Space War, Stan Goldberg, Strange Adventures, Tales from the Crypt, Twisted Tales
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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (1 January 2024)
Have a Gotham 2024! In this year’s weekly reminders that comics can be awesome, I’m going back to spotlighting ten covers every Monday. To get things started, I’ve chosen covers from very different genres (including from peaks of the medium … Continue reading
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Tagged 2000 AD, Bernie Krigstein, Bill Sienkiewicz, covers, Frank Miller, Gaspar Saladino, Ghostly Haunts, Jack Adler, Joe Kubert, Joe Simon, Klaus Janson, Lone Wolf and Cub, Marie Severin, Michael Golden, Moon Knight, Nick Cardy, Piracy, Spider-Woman, The 'Nam, Tom Sutton, Tomahawk, Warfront
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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (4 December 2023)
A Lucky Luke reminder that comics can be awesome: Lucky Luke’s Double
COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (9 October 2023)
As the world spirals further into a hellhole of wars, refugees, and climate disasters, I take small pleasures where I can find them… This week’s reminder that comics can be awesome is yet another tribute to Jack Kirby, who spent … Continue reading
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Tagged Artie Simek, covers, Dick Ayers, George Klein, horror, Jack Kirby, Stan Goldberg, Stan Lee
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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (2 October 2023)
October’s first reminder that comic books can be awesome is a tribute to the voluptuous femmes fatales who were all over the covers of Golden Age comics:
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Tagged Blue Beetle, covers, Famous Crimes, Jack Kamen, noir, The Spirit, Will Eisner
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On Joe Simon’s covers for Dick Tracy
This week we’re back to spotlighting comic book covers in Gotham Calling. I’m quite fascinated by the work of Joe Simon on the covers of Dick Tracy back in the early 1950s, when monthly issues collected Chester Gould’s iconic daily … Continue reading
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Tagged Chester Gould, covers, Dick Tracy, Joe Simon, Laura Allred, Lee Allred, Michael Avon Oeming, Mike Allred, noir, Rich Tommaso, Taki Soma
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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (3 July 2023)
July’s first weekly reminder that comics can be awesome… Explorers on the Moon
COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (22 May 2023)
This weeks’ reminder that comics can be awesome is a tribute to the long history of tank covers at DC:
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Tagged covers, G.I. Combat, Ira Schnapp, Jack Adler, Joe Kubert, Russ Heath, World War II
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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (8 May 2023)
Your reminder that old-school romance comic-book covers can look awesome.