680 – Superboy Meets Oliver Queen

About a half a year after Superboy met Robin, Superboy gets a chance to meet Oliver Queen, the future Green Arrow, in Adventure Comics #258 (January 1959). Superboy tries to invent a machine to look back into the past, but via an “atmospheric disturbance” it lets him see into the future, 1959 to be precise. […]

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183 – Seven Soldiers of Marketing

In Leading Comics #1 (December 1941), the marketing team at DC slung together a bunch of their other heroes that weren’t already in the Justice Society of America into a new team, later called the Seven Soldiers of Victory. It was the first superhero team to include sidekicks (Speedy and Stripesy), but about the only […]

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