The Golden Age of Comic Books begins in May 1938 with the single most important comic book ever published: Action Comics #1 and the debut of the first full-fledged superhero: Superman. Crime fighter for justice. Crazy costume. Super powers. Secret identity. A supporting cast of two Daily Star employees: his un-named editor and his romantic […]
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I usually avoid humorous comic strips, because this blog is mostly supposed to be documenting interesting superhero moments, but I couldn’t resist this panel of “Ginger Snap” from More Fun Comics #31, April 1938 by Robert Kane (future creator of Batman). This looks like the first thing that Bob Kane created for DC Comics. Speaking […]
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This is a panel from The Adventures of Steve Conrad, New Adventure Comics #23 (January 1938). Steve Conrad was one of the many adventure characters featured in New Adventure Comics, written and illustrated by Creig Flessel.
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New Adventure Comics #22 (December 1937) featured a one-shot story of June Justis, G-Woman. June is a no-nonsense gal who is more feisty than Sandra of the Secret Service. In this story she fights the bad guys, shoots to kill and solves the case single-handedly, capturing Public Enemy No. 1, Jake Shiller.
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After The Claws of the Red Dragon, Bruce Nelson continued his “yellow peril” adventures in Detective Comics. Above shows a panel from the second chapter of “The Blood of the Lotus” in Detective Comics #10 (November 1937). In it, they depict the heroin being drugged (with opium presumably), perhaps the second time drug use was […]
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Sally Norris is mostly definitely not a damsel-in-distress and is continuing to prove her worth as Bart Regan’s partner / sidekick in “Spy”, by Detective Comics #9 (October 1937). She bails out her boyfriend with tear gas from her purse (!) and rescues everyone.
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In September 1937, Quality Comics debuted with Feature Funnies #1. It mostly reprinted of strips that had already been published by other companies like Joe Palooka and Jane Arden. It also featured Lala Palooza by Rube Goldberg, who became famous for “Rube Goldberg Machines“. Before it was a famous alternative music festival, Lollapalooza was a […]
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The name of the villain in Doctor Occult‘s adventure from More Fun Comics #24 (August 1937) was Henri Duval. This is the second time I’ve seen Jerry Siegel re-use a name of one of his characters (Jor-L being the first).
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New Adventure Comics, by National Allied Productions featured a comic strip simply called “She“. It is written by H. Rider Haggard, who died in 1925 (12 years before the comic was published). It was illustrated by Sven Elven. Apparently “She” is Ayesha, a two-thousand-year-old immortal sorceress of such great beauty that she can bind any […]
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The Federal Men start the new year (January 1937) by taking a bite out of drugs, or something like that. Steve Carson takes on a “dope” ring and is captured and threatened with becoming an addict. Of course he escapes and arrests the ring leader. New Adventure Comics #13 also features a 12-page story “Foe […]
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