Archive for August, 2007
Saturday, August 11th, 2007
Night Fighter, an Abandoned Superhero
Mainline Advertisement from In Love #1 (September 1954)
Simon and Kirby launched their own comic publishing company, Mainline, with Bullseye (August 1954). The first issue of Bullseye ran an advertisement for the next issue, but no mention of other titles. For the next month, September, two additional titles were released, Police Trap and In Love. Like [...]
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Saturday, August 4th, 2007
More Simon and Kirby Robots
I have previously written on some Simon and Kirby or just Kirby stories from the late ’50s linked by the subject of a giant humanoid robot (here and here). In the comments to the first post, Luke Blanchard pointed out Eando Binder’s pulp stories about Adam Link as likely inspirations for these S&K robot stories.
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Saturday, August 4th, 2007
Some Stories from The Final Issues of Alarming Tales
In a previous post I mentioned that some of the stories for the two final issues of Alarming Tales had an Atlas flavor to them. My understanding of Atlas comics of this period is limited so I would not want to over emphasize this similarity. I guess I should give some examples of these Atlas-like [...]
