The Saturday Comics: The 1940’s Batman Newspaper Strip
October 13, 2012 Batman has been a comic book staple but since 1943 he has been a newspaper comic strip staple as well. There have been 5 different versions of Batman comic strips running in the daily...
View ArticleThe Saturday Comics: Thanksgiving Covers
November 24, 2012 Comics are just like reality. They celebrate the same holidays we do. Wether it be Christmas, Thanksgiving, or the anniversary of the day Superman rocketed to Earth, you can find a...
View ArticleA Tale of My Father: Black Friday
December 5, 2012 This is likely going to be the first of an occassional series of blogs about my father. He’s already turned up on bmj2k.com in Forget It, Jake. It’s Chinatown and in New York Minute...
View ArticleThe Saturday Comics: The Trix Rabbit
March 9, 2013 Remember those fantastic Hostess ads? They were great fun, featuring comic characters from Archie to The Thing in a mini-story where only Hostess Fruit Pies or Twinkies could save the...
View ArticleThe Saturday Comics: Willie Lumpkin (Ear-Wiggling Repost)
November 9, 2013 About time I reran one of my favorite Saturday Comics installments. This one shows the true newspaper origins of Willie Lumpkin, and a strip you may have never seen. from July 9, 2011...
View ArticleThe Saturday Comics: The Shadow (Mysterious Repost)
from June 4, 2011 Who Knows What Evil Lurks In the Hearts Of Men? The Shadow Knows! I refer, of course, to perhaps the most famous show OTR ever produced. So who was The Shadow? “Years ago in the...
View ArticleThe Saturday Comics: Thanksgiving Covers
November 30, 2013 from November 24, 2012 Comics are just like reality. They celebrate the same holidays we do. Wether it be Christmas, Thanksgiving, or the anniversary of the day Superman rocketed to...
View ArticleThe Saturday Comics: Gotham City Uncensored
February 26, 2014 Saturday Comics on a Wednesday? Why not? After all, new comics don’t come out on Saturday either. The Brave and the Bold 197 (1983), written by Alan Brennert, is one of my favorite...
View ArticleSuperman, The Man of Shill (JLA Blog 3)
November 17, 2017 The Justice League movie opened this weekend, and as I predicted, the reviews are moderately stinky. I was hoping that we’d at least get some cool toys based on the film, but that...
View ArticleDC Comics: Why Hasn’t This Happened Yet?
May 16, 2022 SCENARIO # 1 Superman saves Metropolis from a satellite falling out of orbit. He deposits the wreckage in Shuster Park, where he uses his super strength to mold the metal into a modern art...
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