Recent Posts Tagged With 'comic books'

• From the Golden Age of Dubious Comics

  Posted on Wednesday September 30th, 2009 at 08:35 in comic books

  For years there have been whispers about the relationship between Batman and Robin, but who remembers Mr. Scarlet and Pinky? Even though they were long before Auntie Vera's time, she imagines that they were quite dashing in their matchy-matchy outfit...

• In Just Seven Days I Can Make You A Man

  Posted on Tuesday April 28th, 2009 at 00:04 in shirtless, comic books, bad old days

  If these ads, which ran in comic books in the early 1950s, are any indication, one of the biggest problems of American boys in those days was that they were terribly underweight. Luckily there were people like Charles Atlas and George F. Jowett, who...

• What Happens a Few Hours Before Dawn?

  Posted on Monday April 27th, 2009 at 05:20 in comic books

  With regards to Fabulastic at Queer The Pitch....

• Um, Yes, That Is Amazing!

  Posted on Monday March 23rd, 2009 at 11:31 in comic books

  From the Golden Age of Comics comes AMAZING-MAN! Wikipedia tells me there were other characters called Amazing-Man, but this was the first one, which must make him the most amazing of them all! How amazing is he? He's so amazing that he can eat a lar...