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Sunday Funnies #3: Father’s Day heroes
A Father’s Day tribute to super-heroic strength! See More
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Tagged Father's Day, Hercules, Marvel Team-Up, super-strength, Superman, World's Finest Comics
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Sunday Funnies #2: Talking too much
Welcome back to Sunday Funnies. Hope you enjoyed last week’s bit of fun with Heroic Comics. This week, we delve once again into the comics vault and pull up Magazine Enterprises’ Undercover Girl #7 (aka A-1 #118) from 1954. Containing … See More
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Tagged A-1, Bob Powell, Magazine Enterprises, Ogden Whitney, Undercover Girl
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Sunday Funnies #1: Heroic Comics’ continuity gets iced up
New Heroic Comics #62 (Sep 50) was fascinated with children falling through thin ice, so much so that the same basic story ran twice in the same issue. See More
Free Comic Book Day 2011: Travels with Brad VI
While my son Brad and I usually make a large circle of area comics shops for Free Comic Book Day, this year’s sojourn was an abbreviated journey as the young man, now 12 and a member of his middle school track team, had an invitational meet that day. So we visited our local comics shop, Galaxy Comics, Games & More, in Stevens Point, Wis., that afternoon.
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Once upon a time, there was Newfangles (Beautiful Balloons, CBG #1678, June 2011)
Maggie Thompson takes a nostalgic look at her TBG/CBG associations. See More
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It all began … (Beautiful Balloons, CBG #1677, May 2011)
Maggie Thompson provides a rundown of her convention experiences in CBG #1677. See More
Did comic strips handle romance better than comic books did? (Beautiful Balloons, CBG #1676, April 2011)
So here’s the deal about many comics fans and the romance they find in their hobby: Romance is often preferred as an element, rather than as the element. And, for some reason, comic books (as opposed to comic strips) don’t often seem to be able to handle the concept that married people can be effective in action-adventure stories. Ah, but what about comic strips? See More
Declaring Independence (Beautiful Balloons, CBG #1675, March 2011
It may have been clear (albeit dangerous) enough in 1776, but figuring out what “independence” amounts to in the comics world is not as obvious. We call them “independent” publishers, “indie” publishers, or even “indy” publishers — and their comics the same. But each of us means something slightly different by “independent.”
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What’s up for 2011? and In Memoriam: 2010 (Beautiful Balloons, CBG #1674, Feb. 2011)
Our cover celebrates the year past and the year ahead. That includes the sad summary below of some who died during 2010. So let’s take this first section to look at 2011 — and hope all of us enjoy good health, great happiness, and terrific comics. See More
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Timeless tips for gleeful gift-giving (Beautiful Balloons, CBG #1673, Jan. 2011)
In CBG #678, my late husband, Don, and I introduced a “Holiday Gift Guide” to the issue to ease the season’s pressures with a plethora of suggestions. See More
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