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Craig Shutt – Ask Mr. Silver Age
REPRINT I’D REALLY LIKE: The 60s/70s BATMAN Newspaper Strip !
I’d , really , like a reprint of the complete ” Batman ” newspaper strip of the 60s and 70s . Years back , some stories – One ??? – got reprinted during the 70s . ( Ironically enough , … See More
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Happy Birthday, Chuck Fiala!
Hey, Chuck! I’m a day late with this – chaos continues to reign at Casa Isabella – but the best birthday wishes are no less the heartfelt for it. I hope you had a terrific day, my cartooning friend, and … See More
Will there be a second volume of BABY BOOMER COMICS?
I am a big Silver Age fan (and not just ‘big’ in size either!) and really loved BABY BOOMER COMICS! It was great having a bunch of your articles collected in one place which saved me from having to plow … See More
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Secret Origins of Mr. Silver Age!
Here’s a question that’s always bugged me: If there’s a Mr. Silver Age, is there a Mr. Golden Age? A Mr. Bronze Age? Is there a whole Comics Age Family? And why haven’t we met them? Are they lost in … See More
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Neal Adams and Jerry Lewis
Craig Boldman asked in the other Jerry thread: >>In your CBG article on Camp Wack-a-Boy, the panel from issue #102, pictured on the bottom of page 98, looks like a Neal Adams panel to me. Was it? And which issues … See More
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Initial reaction
Hey, Mr. SA … Loved the Baby Boomer book. Highly entertaining! (The Atom being threatened by an iron was a beauty.) The section on Superman’s ingenious backup plans (Plan L for Lois, P for Perry, etc.) reminded me of another … See More
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Jerry Lewis & Witch Kraft
Blast from the Past: ASK MR. SILVER AGE from CBG #1107 (February 3, 1995) In honor of my column on Jerry Lewis’ visits to Camp Wack-A-Boy in CBG #1607 (Aug 05), here’s a short feature I wrote some time back … See More
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Custom Megos!
Blast from the Past: from CBG #1042 (November 5, 1993) This is a true oddity: an article on customizing Mego action figures that was written before I thought up my Ask Mr. Silver Age column and began focusing strictly on … See More
More custom Mego pix
Here are a couple of extra photos of Megos I have customized, to supplement the ones shown in my Custom Megos! post of June 30, 2005. First up are three members of the JSA. Flash is a Captain Marvel body … See More
Jerry Lewis cartoon show?
A Mr. Silver Age fan e-mailed to ask about the early 1970s Jerry Lewis TV show, Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down! He was interested in whether Camp Wack-A-Boy, detailed in my Ask Mr. Silver Age column in … See More
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