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National Cartoonist Society Profile: Hal Foster
I was born on August 16, 1892 in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. Later moved to Winnipeg and became a trapper. My business career interfered with duck-hunting, so I started to illustrate mail order...
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Gold Key Comics...Mighty Samson
Created by writer Otto Binder and artist Frank Thorne in July of 1964, Mighty Samson, was a wandering barbarian adventurer who lived in a devastated area around New York after a future nuclear war. A...
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Direct Currents: The Demon
One of Jack Kirby's new series created for DC Comics in 1972, The Demon was a creature called Etrigan, created by the powerful sorcerer Merlin at the fall of King Arthur's Kingdom of Camelot. As the...
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Society of Illustrators Profile: Haddon Sundblom
Born in Muskegan, Michigan, the ninth child of poor Finnish parents, Haddon Sundblom left school at thirteen when his mother died, as the youth he did construction jobs by day and art classes at night....
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Make Mine Marvel: The Monster Of Frankenstein
With Marvel riding high on the black and white horror magazines from their sister company Curtis Publications, The Monster ofFrankenstein soon debuted in January 1973 with a title change to...
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Foreign Favorites: Buck Danny
Known as the oldest of the European aviation strips, Buck Danny made his debut in the Belgian comic Spirou on January 2, 1947. Scripted by Jean-Michael Charlier and drawn by Victor Hubinon, it was a...
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Sensational Strips: Axa
Published by the British daily tabloid The Sun from 1978 to 1986, Axa was a science fiction strip set in the post-apocalyptic Earth year 2080. Written by Donne Avenell and drawn by Enrique Romero,...
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Unpublished Gems: Thrill-O-Rama
Thought I would end the year showcasing some unpublished pieces and their original printed versions if available, though in this first "Unpublished Gems" installment the book was cancelled before issue...
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An Aslan Sukor Gallery
Born February 10, 1945 in Bafra, a small town along Turkey's Black Sea coast, Aslan Sukur moved to Istanbul with his family in 1962. After dropping out of high school he pursued a career in art even...
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National Cartoonist Society Profile: Greig Flessel
Creig Valentine Flessel was a pioneer in the Golden Age working in the early days for National Comics on their crime buster Sandman before moving on to have a wide ranging career in illustration,...
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My Greatest Adventure: Weird Worlds
Only running for a short ten issues from September 1972 until its demise in November of 1974, Weird Worlds was a science fiction anthology title from DC comics that showcased many of Edgar Rice...
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Dell Comics Cover Artist: Ernest Nordli
Born in Salt Lake City in 1912 to Norwegian immigrant parents, Ernest Nordli is best know as an animation designer and layout artist for the best in the business, Walt Disney Studios. Staring with the...
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Society of Illustrators Profile: Jessie Willcox Smith
Born in Philadelphia in 1863, Jessie Willcox Smith love of children motivated her to become a kindergarten teacher, who fortunately for us at the age of seventeen was invited to to act as a chaperone...
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Atlas/Seaboard Comics: John Targitt...Man-Stalker
Starting in June of 1974, the short-lived Atlas/Seaboard Comics line was started by Marvel Comics founder Martin Goodman, who had left the company in 1972 after he sold it in 1968. Wanting to compete...
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Gold Key's...Brothers of the Spear
Today it's common place to see black and white heroes fighting side by side in comics, film, and television, but fifty years ago it was very rare. Gold Key's Brothers of the Spear was a ground breaking...
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Archie Comics: The Double Life of Private Strong
In June 1959, Jack Kirby and Joe Simon published a title for the new "Archie Adventure Series", The Double Life of PrivateStrong, introducing the patriotic character, The Shield. Not related to the...
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Marvel Spotlight: Doc Savage, The Man of Bronze
In October of 1972 Marvel Comics tried to bring "Golden Avenger" into their stable of comic titles with Doc Savage, The Man of Bronze #1 written by Steve Englehart based on a Roy Thomas plot, with...
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National Cartoonist Society Profile: Raeburn Van Buren
Raeburn Van Buren had a flourishing career in magazine and pulp illustration before Al Capp approached him to draw Abbie an' Slats, a strip about a tough New York kid transplanted to his aunt's small...
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Unpublished Gems: Aquaman
Whether the "King of the Seven Seas" was trapped in a swarm of undersea vines about to be crushed by a giant foot or either lashed to the sole of a giant sandal about to be smashed, Nick Cardy did a...
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Rafael Aura Leon's "Death of Doctor Morbious" and "Odd Worm!"
Spanish artist Rafael Aura Leon, better known as Auraleon, joined Warren Publishing in 1971 and was one of their most prolific artists, doing sixty nine stories in total. Working primarily in...
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