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Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
I left the Gulf Coast in 1968 to attend school in what seemed to be far away Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham-Southern College is a liberal arts school in every sense of the word. It is liberal and it has a strong arts community. We used to call the local John...
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...
DC Comics and Warner Brothers
Warner Brothers announced that they were taking control of DC Comics and renaming it DC Entertainment. Or as the headline stated from ComicMix, "Warner Brothers Gobbles up DC." I can only guess at the reasons, the obvious one being all the recent movies...
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...
