Johnny Peril is finally named in a new “Just A Story” installment in Comic Cavalcade #22 (June 1947), “The Kid by the Side of the Road”. Johnny Peril gets involved with a murder mystery and a kid by the side of the road gives him some tips on where to find the murder weapon inside […]
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in Flash #86 (June 1947), in a six-page Johnny Thunder story, we get what I believe is the last significant character introduced during the Golden Age of Comics: Black Canary! Created by Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino, she is positioned in this story not as a hero, but as someone who robs crooks. Stylistically, she […]
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In Sensation #68 (June 1947), Wildcat gets his first costumed nemesis in the form of The Huntress. Paula Brooks squares off against Ted Grant, killing several people before being defeated. In the 1980s, she is retroactively renamed The Tigress and is shown to have previously been a hero before turning villain.
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Powering-up Superman in service of the plot-of-the-month continues in World’s Finest Comics #29 (May 1947). In this issue, Superman is challenged by Lois Lane to bind different books of a collector with unique materials. In one instance he races to the lost continent of Atlantis, in another he needs to find a unicorn bone, in […]
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More science fiction stuff from DC in April 1947 with All-Star Comics #35. Per Degaton is introduced, who steals a time machine and goes back into the past to prevent Alexander the Great from winning a key battle in order to become ruler of the present-day Earth. As a result, technology starts to disappear in […]
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I’ve talked a bit about crazy fantastical Batman and Robin storylines before. In Batman #41 (April 1947), we get the first truly far-out-there storyline, “Batman, Interplanetary Policeman”. Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson are identified as Batman and Robin by Martian alien scientists visiting Earth. These scientists have observed Batman and Robin for years with their […]
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In Sensation Comics #66 (April 1947), Steve Trevor is shot and killed accidentally by a kid playing with his father’s gun. In a fit of grief, Wonder Woman rushes Steve to Paula von Gunther, who uses the purple ray to heal Steve. Phew, I really thought Wonder Woman’s love interest and most important supporting cast […]
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Tomahawk, and his trusty young sidekick Dan Hunter, debut in Star Spangled Comics #69 (April 1947). As a young pioneer in Kentucky, Tom Hawk was captured by “Indians”, but after saving some of their people from a rampaging moose, was befriended, given the nickname “Tomahawk” and taught their ways. Later, he defended an American outpost […]
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In Wonder Woman #23 (March 1947), Queen Hippolyta shows what amounts to be a “home movie” of Diana as a seven-year old girl who bests alien invaders and rescues Amazons. This is the first appearance of Wonder Girl. Versions of Wonder Woman at various young ages become a popular story-telling device in the pages of […]
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In Detective Comics #122 (February 1947), the Catwoman returns again to plague Gotham City with her “black cat” crimes. Her “Kitty Car” is introduced which seems to have more power and gadgetry than the Batmobile… how?!? The story also brings back her black hair, I guess she got tired of being a blonde while in […]
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