1940 was the Blue Beetle's year. After launching in June 1939 in Mystery Men Comics #1, Dan Garrett, the Golden Age Blue Beetle would get a newspaper strip starting in January 1940, and his own series ...

Archie Andrews made his comic book debut in 1941, drawn by artist Bob Montana. The character’s iconic design remained largely unchanged for more than 70 years. After Jon Goldwater, CEO of Archie ...

The Promise Collection is a set of nearly 5,000 comic books, 95% of which are blisteringly high grade, that were published from 1939 to 1952 and purchased by one young comic book fan. The name of the ...

The curious corners of comics history are a specialty of Dan Nadel, the author and art director of ‘Art in Time: Unknown Comic Book Adventures, 1940-1980,’ which is a follow-up to his 2006 book ‘Art ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. A Canadian comic book hero used as a morale booster during the Second World War could soon return to ...

Back in the Forties, the science fiction rag Planet Comics published the ongoing feature “Life On Other Worlds.” This section peppered scientific know-how amongst whatever gonzo shit the writer ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The finest collection of original art from the Golden Age of American ...

Now open at the new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in London, Queer as Comics is the UK’s first major exhibition on the subject. We speak to curator Paul Gravett about its rich archive of work, ...

In the 1930s and 1940s, comic book publishers fought dirty wars over titles. If you wanted to lock down a name like "Thrill Comics" or "Sensation Comics," you needed to convince the U.S. Patent & ...