streak the wonder dog Archives

Green Lantern #30 featuring Streak the Wonder Dog (DC, 1948)
Streak the Wonder Dog was not the first dog hero of the Golden Age of comics.  Bulletdog (Bulletman #10, cover-dated December 1942) and Rang-A-Tang (Blue Ribbon Comics #1, November 1939) among others came along earlier.  But Streak did debut seven years before Krypto (Adventure Comics #210, March 1955), and his history and legacy have taken[...]
Green Lantern #30 featuring Streak the Wonder Dog (DC, 1948)
Streak the Wonder Dog was not the first dog hero of the Golden Age of comics.  Bulletdog (Bulletman #10, cover-dated December 1942) and Rang-A-Tang (Blue Ribbon Comics #1, November 1939) among others came along earlier.  But Streak did debut seven years before Krypto (Adventure Comics #210, March 1955), and his history and legacy have taken[...]
Green Lantern #29 (DC, 1947)
Green Lantern #34 would be the Harlequin's last appearance of the Golden Age.  But this serves to make these later issues of Golden Age Green Lantern a fascinating artifact of their time in comic book history, and several issues of this era of Golden Age Green Lantern, are available in today's 2021 July 25-26 Sunday[...]
DogStars:  The Strange, Secret Origin of the Dogs Who Replaced Green Lantern
Frank Baum seems to have been substantially inspired, to put it politely, by at least one previous fictional pooch who looks the same, has a similar background, and is also named Toto. We'll get to that prior pup called Toto another time, because tonite's Comic Connect auction session which includes a nice little run of Golden[...]