Apr 10, 2013

Here’s a little news flash for you…we still have roller derby! Roller derby has been around for decades, and here’s a few comics that have featured people doing stunts with roller skates. First up is the Flash, the fastest man alive, who has problems matching up with Kolossal Kate in Flash #211 (December, 1971, by Cary Bates, Irv Novick and...

Apr 5, 2013

Sadly, having to write a little on the passing of comic artist, Carmine Infantino. He was born on May 24th, 1925 in Brooklyn New York, and first started working in comics in 1942 as an inker. One of his most notable creations was his first published work for DC Comics in Flash Comics #86 (August 1947), where he introduced the Black Canary in the Johnny Thunder...

Apr 3, 2013

Stan Lee has co-created many of Marvel’s most important heroes, including the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, the X-Men, the Silver Surfer and the Avengers (with Jack Kirby) and Spider-Man and Dr. Strange (with Steve Ditko) (along with so many more, as well as bringing back World War II greats the Sub-Mariner and Captain America into more modern...

Apr 1, 2013

So, you probably know Batman, the World’s Greatest Detective, but how about the World’s Biggest Fool? Well, that wouldn’t be Bizarro Batman…which means it likely is, in Bizarro speak!   Bizarro first came to be in Superboy #68 (October, 1958), with Professor Dalton’s duplicator ray, but the bizarre duplicate of...

Mar 27, 2013

Starting off baseball season, and what better way to do it than talking about an All-Star game, but not one with Justin Verlander or Alex Rodriquez, but instead, a game made up of DC Comics Super-Stars! That’s exactly what happened back in December, 1976 in DC Super-Stars #10 (by writer and DC’s Answer Man, Bob Rozakis and JLA and Blackhawks artist...