Of the short-lived titles of the 1930s and 1940s, none is as rare nor as important to the history of comic books as New Fun, subtitled “The Big Comic Magazine.” Although New Fun was to continue as More Fun Comics with the seventh issue and then to continue on to issue 127, New Fun deserves [...]
Entries from October 24th, 2009
New Fun Magazine–The Birth of an Industry by Jon Berk
October 24th, 2009 5 Comments
Tags: "the Major" · DC Comics · Dr. Occult · LLoyd Jacquet · Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson · New Fun · Ron Goulart · Siegel and Shuster · Vincent Sullivan
What’s up?
October 23rd, 2009 No Comments
Warner Brothers announced that they were taking control of DC Comics and renaming it DC Entertainment. Or as the headline stated from ComicMix, “Warner Brothers Gobbles up DC.” I can only guess at the reasons, the obvious one being all the recent movies featuring comic book characters. According to the announcement, Paul Levitz who has [...]
Tags: "the Major" · Comic Con 2008 · DC Comics · Diane Nelson · Harry Donenfeld · Jack Liebowitz · Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson · Paul Levitz · Warner Brothers
Comics with your Coffee
October 14th, 2009 No Comments
Some of the good guys in the Comics world are out there putting their best panels forward. The mysterious I Know Joe Kimpel is hosting a book release and signing party this Friday night, October 16, 7-9 pm in the wilds of Brooklyn at the wonderfully named Desert Island Comics. Cat Garza, Mario Van [...]
Tags: Alex Simmons · Archie Comics · Danny Fingeroth · Desert Island Comics · Jim Amash · Mario Van Buren · Michael Uslan · Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art · New York Comic Con
