Number 317Robotbody Meets a Body!*This Robotman story is from Detective Comics #152, October 1949. It's drawn by Jimmy Thompson, who I understand was an old timer, an artist who went back to pre-comic book days, working [...]

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Number 316Love-sick!Speaking of love--without the sick--I really love Jack Bradbury's comic art from the late 1940s and early '50. The work he did later for Disney comics I find less interesting, but he was working in a [...]

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Number 315Jack Kirby's Three RocketeersRace For The Moon #3, November 1958, was the last issue.It contained the first Three Rocketeers story by Jack Kirby and Al Williamson, but while it was the only Rocketeers story in [...]

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Number 314 Captain without wingsThe movie, Iron Man, is a big hit. We can expect at least one big superhero blockbuster every summer. We have more than usual this year, with a couple more coming up later this season. I have [...]

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Number 313EvolutionThis 5-page story from Harvey's Tomb Of Terror #12, November 1953, was appropriated (read: swiped) from the science fiction story, "The Man Who Evolved" by Edmond Hamilton. Hamilton, who was born in 1904, [...]

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Number 312Babe and the triple-lunged twinsI think you'd have to look pretty hard to find a more oddball comic book than Boody Rogers' Babe.A couple of months ago I bought a copy of Babe #10, Feb.-Mar. 1950, along with coverless [...]

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Number 311The Hidden Vampire!In line with my co-conspirators/friends Chuck Wells and Karswell of Comic Book Catacombs and The Horrors Of It All respectively, here's a nifty little vampire story from Atlas Comics' Journey [...]

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Number 310Beastie Boys!Karswell of The Horrors of It All is showing Ace horror stories. I have some he doesn't, and vice versa. Here's a neat werewolf story, "Beast Of Skeleton Island," featuring not one but two beastly [...]

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