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Superman Sunday with Larry Tye
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s Superman! Truth, justice and the American way and George Reeves flying across the black and white screen of an early 50’s television set is indelibly printed on my brain. Like so many other children of that era, I pinned the...
Let’s All Eat Cake
Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson was born January 7, 1890 marking this year, 2011 as the 121st anniversary of his birth. He often listed his place of birth as Greeneville, Tennessee, the county seat of Greene County in East Tennessee. More than likely he was born at...
New Fun Magazine-The Birth of an Industry by Jon Berk
Editor’s note: Jon Berk was a comics collector and among his other comics had a complete run of the rare New Funs #1-6. He was much more than a collector. Jon had a deep knowledge of comics history and a love of the medium. He was also a generous and kind...
Castles in the Air
When I was growing up in the early 1950's in the Gulf Coastal town of Mobile, Alabama, not only was it was segregated, but also a little shabby and run-down at the heels. There wasn't a lot of money floating about due to the poverty that had been entrenched in the...
