This is from TALES OF SUSPENSE# 54, February 1965. Recently thawed out and new to the Avengers, Captain America is caught in a rather dopey trap. He thinks he has been asked to give a demonstration, but really the prisoners intend to use the gadgets inside his shield to open a new magnetic door. (They've secretly broken loose and imprisoned the ( Read more... )

A Jack Kirby page from Charlton's 1955 FROM HERE TO INSANITY# 11. The panel where he Xs out a preliminary sketch and leaves a note complaining no one knows how to draw a concrete mixer brings up a funny aspect of drawing comics.


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It's a powerful, hard-hitting tale ripped from today's headlines. Can young Tommy get away from the bad crowd he's running around with and escape getting hooked on the pernicious Marihuana?


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I'm just saying. Growing up on comics and pulps, my ideas of what is practical are rather easy-going. That a super-hero will wear a full-length skin-tight costume under his regular street clothes... even on the hottest day in August on a New York City street.. well, okay. Even more hot and sweaty and uncomfortable? Wearing a pair of boots under a ( Read more... )

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You might need some time to work on this. (Show your math.) How do anti-matter electrons (wait, what?)convert air into a liquid chemical?


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Clarksdale, Long Island, June 14 1964. Tommy "Fast Worker" Muldoon, 41, and Larry "the Crowbar" Vincelli, 38, have filed for damages from heavy exposure to carcinogenic smoke recklessly expelled into their lungs by Johnny "Human Torch" Storm, 17.


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This is from YELLOW CLAW# 2, December 1956. I'm using the reprint from a 1975 issue of GIANT-SIZE MASTER OF KUNG FU, which explains why the caption has been relettered to change Jimmy Woo from an FBI agent to a SHIELD agent. Picking up the Marvel archive edition of the four Yellow Claw issues, plus the 1950s Black Knight stories with gorgeous Joe ( Read more... )

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