Nov 11, 2014 | DC Comics, Family History, Military
The Major's Military Career DC Comics history and comics history in general has been partially based on anecdotal oral tales told forty years or so later and has become the comic book canon. In speaking about the Major, the stories told of him were by people who...
Sep 18, 2011 | Comics History, Family History, The Pulps
How I Spent my Summer--Pulpfest 2011 Dark clouds filled the sky. As I drove on the winding mountain road, I had a bad feeling that I should have followed my instincts about traveling this way. Rain began to fall and huge trucks roared past spraying the...
Jan 7, 2011 | Military, Comics History, DC Comics, Family History
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...
Aug 28, 2009 | DC Comics, Family History
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...
Aug 10, 2009 | Family History, DC Comics
Castles in the AirWhen 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...
