by Rick Coste | Dec 21, 2020 | Bronze Age, Editors, Golden Age, Silver Age
Dorothy Woolfolk In the 1949 story “Superman Returns to Krypton” (Superman #61), he learns that he is vulnerable when exposed to green kryptonite. Kryptonite had been introduced previously in the Superman radio serial. Still, it wasn’t until DC...
by Rick Coste | Dec 17, 2020 | Editors, Golden Age, Illustrators, Writers
Ray Hermann There weren’t many women working in comics in the early forties. Those who were often had to write under a male pseudonym as it was felt readers wouldn’t accept a comic either written or illustrated by a woman. In 1938 Audrey “Toni” Blum walked into...
by Rick Coste | Dec 10, 2020 | Bronze Age, Editors, Writers
Jo Duffy How many people can say they were in a comic before actually working on them? Yep – Jo Duffy can. That’s her above asking for Iron Man’s autograph in issue #103. It was around that time that Ms. Duffy went to work for Marvel as an editor. Among the...
by Rick Coste | Dec 8, 2020 | Editors, Illustrators, Platinum Age, Writers
Nell Brinkley – the “Queen of Comics” Nell is standing in the doorway with an envelope in her hand. It is 1907 and she is wearing a hat and coat in the style of that era. PANEL 2 We can see over her shoulder as she holds the letter from the...
