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 21, 2020 | Bronze Age, Colorist, Golden Age, Illustrators, Silver Age
Marie Severin EC Comics was a powerhouse back in the 1940s-50s. Much of its catalog after 1950 consisted of dark stories of horror and science fiction. Its last title was published in 1956 due to increasing pressure from the Comic Code Authority and a growing...
by Rick Coste | Dec 21, 2020 | Golden Age, Writers
Ruth Roche Long before Kamala Khan and Simon Baz, there was another Muslim superhero. The first, in fact. His name was Kismet, Man of Fate, and he appeared in Bomber Comics in 1944. His creator was quite a powerhouse in her own right – her name was Ruth Ann...
by Rick Coste | Dec 19, 2020 | Golden Age, Writers
Joye Hummel In 1943 Joye Hummel was a psychology student at Katherine Gibbs School. It was well known that one of the professors, William Moulton Marston, had created the character of Wonder Woman. Only a couple of years old, the character was already well-known...
by Rick Coste | Dec 19, 2020 | Golden Age, Illustrators, Writers
Tarpé Mills One of the most popular female characters in comics at the start of World War II was Miss Fury. The character, a socialite named Maria Drake, who donned a skintight panther suit to fight crime, was so popular that her name appeared on the nose of three...
by Rick Coste | Dec 19, 2020 | Golden Age, Illustrators, Writers
Jackie Ormes Readers of the Pittsburgh Courier received an unexpected treat in the comics section on May 1, 1937. It was the first appearance of Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, a fictional character who left Mississippi to perform in Harlem’s famed Cotton Club. Not...
