Explore Cat-Man Comics #1's auction debut, delve into its Golden Age history, and discover Charles Quinlan's artistic influence.
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Bang-Up Comics #1's Lady Fairplay, had "unlimited energetic powers" making her "goddess of chastisement and dreaded foe of the underworld."
Best remembered as the album cover of Molly Hatchet’s 1979 Flirtin’ With Disaster, Frank Frazetta's painting Dark Kingdom has sold for $6M.
Lou Fine's iconic 1940 cover for Hit Comics #5 from Quality Comics is based on a scene from the interior story in that issue.
National Comics #5 features an expanded origin for the Quality Comics version of Uncle Sam, plus the debut of speedster Max Mercury.
Master Comics #21 is the start of one of the Golden Age's most important crossover events with Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel Jr & Bulletman.
Published in 1952, Farrell Publications' Voodoo Annual #1 is a 100 page squarebound Pre-Code Horror rarity containing Matt Baker art and more
American icon Uncle Sam became a comic book superhero in Quality Comics title National Comics, adapted for this purpose by Will Eisner.
Legendary and influential comic book artist John Romita Sr. has passed away at the age of 93, according to his son John Romita Jr.
Daredevil Comics #5 was inspired by the FBI's Q1 1941 release of its regular Uniform Crime Reports, debuting the bizarre character Sniffer.
Chesler's Major Victory Comics #1 reprints his origin from Dynamic Comics #1, but includes the all-new debut of the Golden Age Spider-Woman.
Before the X-Men, Professor X was a criminology professor in Captain Flight Comics who knew everything there was to know about crime.
Inspired by World War II, the Korean War, and the looming Cold War, the war comics of the 1940s and 1950s have a strange history behind them.
Fiction House changed Rangers Comics from what was essentially a superhero title into a long-running war comic book series.
Best remembered for his creation of the Human Torch and other Golden Age work, Carl Burgos did hundreds of Marvel covers in the 1950s.
"The Island that Disappeared" in Atomic Attack #8 from Youthful Publications was inspired by Operation Ivy.
Spy Smasher remembers the Battle of Wake Island on the cover of Fawcetts's Spy Smasher #8 shortly after that history took place.
In what seems to have been a franchise reboot attempt, Captain Battle's son completed an important mission and saved his dad in the process.
Aviation-themed covers were a large part of the early era of L.B. Cole's career as a comic book cover artist.
Fiction House's Ranger Comics launched featuring the Rangers of Freedom, a costumed hero-centric group who faced the villain SuperBrain.
Bill Everett's The Conqueror debuted in Victory Comics from Hillman Periodicals as a superhero transformed by cosmic rays.
Discover the haunting fusion of supernatural and superhero themes in Dynamic Comics #1, a cherished Chesler classic from 1941.
Created by Chesler art director Charles Sultan, Punch Comics #1's Sky Chief, was a reflection of the aviation history of the era.
Chesler's Major Victory Comics series from 1944-1945 is largely composed of reprints, with a notable exception: the debut of Spider-Woman.
Leslie Charteris gave Avon Publications detailed feedback on the look he wanted for The Saint comic book series in the late 1940s.
In 1951, the New York Legislature had issues with a Pre-Code Horror story drawn by Don Rico in Marvel Tales #97.
In her first appearances in Air Fighters Comics, Valkyrie was persuaded by Airboy to switch sides and join the Allies during WWII.
Harry A. Chesler's Golden Age Dr. Doom debuts in and Yankee Comics #1, prior to his cover stardom on Dynamic Comics #11.
MLJ heroes like Black Hood, Shield, and Hangman have been living in Archie's shadow in recent years, but that may be changing for collectors.
MLJ's the Black Hood had a fascinating journey through the Golden Age, including Top-Notch Comics, Jackpot, Pep and his own series.