Category: Comics & Cartoons

Pieces of art, meant to tickle the funny-bone, tells a story, or to make a political statement, whether it be in a newspaper or a comic book.

See Superman In Color, 1939

On: By: Romeyn

Beginning next Sunday, the amazing exploits of SUPERMAN will be featured in color in the Adventure Section of the Sunday Post-Dispatch.

This super-hero flies faster than an airplane… he can outswim a speed boat and leap over sky-scrapers. He smashes steel like putty and runs faster than a speeding express train. Enlisted on the side of justice, he crusades constantly against the forces of evil.

For a Thrill Every Sunday, Follow SUPERMAN’S Adventures

IN THE SUNDAY

POST-DISPATCH

STARTING NEXT SUNDAY

Mr. Skygack, Observing Mars Observers

On: By: Romeyn

Seattle Star, Feb 25th, 1908

Entered house shaped like arctic snow hut ~~ Saw earth beings fussing around oddly constructed machine ~~ Contrivance too large for house necessitating projection of one end through roof ~~ Heard such words as “Mars”, “Canals”, “Opposition”, “Polar Caps”, “Atmosphere”, “Inhabitants”, “Cosmic Void”, etc

Who’s Who in the Comics, 1912

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WHO’S-WHO IN THE COMICS
By Fred Schaefer

Some years ago a gentle inoffensive stranger landed on this terrestial sphere with no luggage but a notebook. Since then “he has tarried with us, pussyfooted and unobtrusive as a Japanese spy, picking up information and knitting his intellectual brow over the incomprehensible things so different from those on his own planet. This was Mr. Skygack from Mars. It is, however, not clearly known how long he will continue his earth study of earth beings at their earth work’s, nor how he will get back to Mars when he concludes to return. It will probably be by the same means by which he arrived, unless by chance he came as a meteorite. Continue reading “Who’s Who in the Comics, 1912” →

R.I.P. Stan Lee 12/28/1922 – 11/12/2018

On: By: Romeyn

Stanley Martin Lieber started his career as an office assistant at Timely Comics in 1939 (Timely eventually became Marvel Comics in 1961). Lee made his comic-book debut with the text filler “Captain America Foils the Traitor’s Revenge” in Captain America Comics #3, shortly after that he became an interim editor for the company in the early 1940s.

From 1942-1945, Lee served stateside in the US Army in the Training Film Division, where he was involved in writing manuals, training films, and making slogans.

As they say, the rest is history…

Goodbye Mr. Lee, and thank you for many years of inspiration and entertainment, you will be missed

Green Hornet Daily Strip, 1941

On: By: Romeyn

Here are the first four weeks of the unpublished Green Hornet daily comic strips (Monday-Saturday). Fran Striker wrote the plot, Bert Whitman was responsible for the art. George W. Trendel, who wanted total oversight over ever detail of the proposal, disliked the final story and artwork, thus killing the strip before it even started.

(Copyright 1941 by Green Hornet Inc.)
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