Comic Book History

A Theater Troupe That Performs Vintage Comic Books
ByGlenn Hauman April 26, 2014

Every Comic Book Gets Adapted, but this is one we weren’t expecting: http://www.laweekly.com/publicspectacle/2014/04/07/a-theater-troupe-that-performs-vintage-comic-books In 1954, the massive, and popular, comic books industry changed forever. Those heavily visual narrative tales provoked outrage amongst the grown-ups who believed these books would lead to the ruin of a generation of youngsters. Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham condemned them in his…

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Glenn Hauman: Like “Sandman” Through An Hourglass
ByGlenn Hauman February 26, 2014

George Harrison once said to Eric Idle, “If we’d known we were going to be the Beatles, we’d have tried harder.” That’s the phrase that comes to mind when I look back on that fall day when the pages first came into the darkroom at DC Comics. I’d been working there no more than a…

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Michael Davis: Derek, Kitty, Static & The Dog – A Milestone Story
ByMichael Davis July 16, 2013

Milestone was the idea of Denys Cowan. Denys, Dwayne McDuffie, Derek Dingle, Christopher Priest and I sat in a room (a few rooms actually, sometimes at someone’s home, sometimes at a dive restaurant a lot of times in a dive diner) and we sat and planed for weeks creating the original universe of Milestone main…

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REVIEW: Wolverine: Origin
ByRobert Greenberger July 9, 2013

In 2000, Bill Jemas arrived at Marvel and began a long process of pulling the company out of bankruptcy. He tapped Joe Quesada to give up running the Marvel Knights imprint and take over Marvel Comics as its Editor-in-Chief. It was a fresh beginning and break from some truly bleak creative years. There was a…

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Kickstarter Alert: “Comic Book Babylon: The Real Heroes and Villians of Comics”
ByGlenn Hauman July 1, 2013

If you’ve ever read anything from Clifford Meth, you know he can be a ferocious writer, and ferociously talented. We like that sort of thing here, and that’s why we’ve published his stuff in the past. He’s compiling his columns and essays into a book, and you have a few hours left to pre-order it…

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The Point Radio: PROSPECTORS Gets Us Rich – Quick!
ByMike Raub March 29, 2013July 6, 2026

This weekend a new indy comedy open is several major U.S. cities. FAMILY WEEKEND stare Kristen Chenoweth, Matthew Modine plus producer/co-star Adam Russo who gives us an exclusive look at the new film. Plus there’s a lot more than gold in those hills! Meet Steve Brancato and Amanda Adkins from PROSPECTORS, a new series…

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Mike Gold: Worst … Villain… Ever!
ByMike Gold March 13, 2013

Seduction of the Innocent by Max Allan Collins • Interior illustrations by Terry Beatty • Hard Case Crime • Paperback: $9.95 • Digital: $6.39 • Audio: $9.18 So… Who is the worst, most evil comic book villain ever? Well, if you’re a hard-core comics fan and/or comics professional, the worst comic book villain ever might…

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Mike Gold: Too Much Is More Than Enough
ByMike Gold January 23, 2013

Back in the 1960s and 1970s there was this publisher called Harvey Comics. They were in business to sell comic books to children: Casper the Friendly Ghost, Wendy the Good Little Witch, Hot Stuff, Sad Sack, Little Dot, Richie Rich… well, mostly Richie Rich. As in “I counted 47 different Richie Rich titles from Harvey…

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Mike Gold: Phantom Survivor
ByMike Gold November 28, 2012

While we’re all busy celebrating the 49th anniversary of Doctor Who and the 50th anniversary of both Spider-Man and the James Bond movies, the daddy of heroic fantasy characters quietly turned 76 way back in February. Or, depending upon how you look at it, he turned 476. The Phantom was the very first masked, costumed…

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Why Does Michael Davis Still Read Comics?
ByMichael Davis September 25, 2012

I started reading comics in the fifth grade. I still have the very first comic book I ever brought: The Avengers #43. I won’t bore you with the heartwarming story of how I pretty much learned to read with comics. I’ve told that story a billion times and I’m sure (although I can’t remember) I’ve…

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Mindy Newell: I Didn’t Do It!
ByMindy Newell September 24, 2012

Weird comics synchronicity. My cousin Penny met and married a guy named Ken Landgraff – and no, I had absolutely nothing to do with it. Some of you may Ken through his work for Marvel and DC back in the day when he drew Nightwing and Flamebird, Hawkman, and Wolverine. He also worked in the…

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Michael Davis: Milestones – African Americans in Comics, Pop Culture and Beyond, Part 2
ByMichael Davis August 21, 2012

Please see last’s week part one. Although closeted in the interim report of the 1954 comic book hearings, race was not an issue that America really wanted to deal with and perhaps that above all is why race had been given little more than a nod in the hearing. Race was however one of the…

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