The above is a portion of Joe Kubert’s cover of DC’s collection titled The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told. It’s an image…
Jimmy Olsen #104 (Aug. –Sep. 1967) Now we’re at Jimmy Olsen #104, in June 1967. This was not just any issue,…
Jack Kirby was born on 94 years ago today, on August 28 1917…so let’s follow the FF’s lead and celebrate! After all, without…
Back in the late 1960s you couldn’t pass a newsstand or spinner rack without seeing one or another of Gene…
As all True Believers know, 2011 marks the Silver Anniversary of the Fantastic Four. (And yes, I know the Fantastic Four…
Continuing with our tribute to the inimitable Nick Cardy, here’s just a small sampling of Cardy’s innovative Aquaman covers. Did…
You know, that Teen Titans Christmas tree cover got me thinking about some other Nick Cardy Teen Titans covers from…
It’s time to deck the halls and fa la la…so here are the top 5 Christmas-themed covers featuring iconic comic…
The next comic I read was Lois Lane #75, which was published sometime in May 1967. Buying new comics was a…
Sad news–Mike Esposito passed away over the weekend, at the age of 83. He had a long and distinguished career…
Okay, so I’d passed up Adventure #356 and the Legion of Super-Heroes in favor of what turned out to be a…
As Rik Offenberger has already pointed out in his wonderful overview elsewhere on the First Comics News site, patriotic heroes are…
Here, in no particular order, are some other eye-catching covers from Archie Comics’ Sonic the Hedgehog series–these covers just missed making…
Let’s continue with our countdown of Archie Comics’ Sonic the Hedgehog covers. Here, my highly subjective top five choices (plus an extra cover…
You’ve probably noticed it’s Sonic month here at First Comics News, so what better way to celebrate than with a countdown…
July is Captain Action month here at First Comics News, so let’s take a Aquaman #31, released in November 1966 and…
As we often did around holidays (here, Easter 1967), my family and I made the trek from Manhattan to my…
The next comic I bought was Justice League of America #53 (cover date May 1967). You can probably guess why:…
The next superhero comic I bought was in March 1967–Aquaman #33 (cover-dated June 1967 , May-June 1967 in the indicia because Aquaman…
I nearly fainted the first time I saw this comic on the newsstand–the purple, black and yellow! And who was this…
A week or so after Wonder Woman #166, I bought (or more accurately, my parents bought for me) Lois Lane #70,…
Okay, so Easter’s come and gone; when you see the cover of this week’s featured Silver Age comic, you’ll see why…
Welcome to the Silver Age Serenade here at First Comics News! As you’ve no doubt already inferred (the name of…
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