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The Major Lands a Role in the DC Documentary
Earlier this year DC/WB announced their intention of producing a documentary on the 75th Anniversary of DC Comics. The good news is that DC/WB decided to give Major Malcolm Wheeler Nicholson a small cameo and it's at the very beginning so that's quite nice....
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...
Nancy Drew and the Case of the Moldy Papers
I have loved detective stories from the time I was a little girl in 1950s Mobile, Alabama. I would take the younger siblings and ride the bus downtown on Saturday mornings and we'd go to the movies for a quarter--usually westerns with cartoons and then...
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...
