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Author Archives: Nicky Brown
The “real” pulps
After all the Comic Con excitement it’s time for some pulp excitement. I’m heading down to New Jersey on Saturday so that I can attend Pulp AdventureCon sponsored by Bold Venture Press. This event has been ongoing for several years … Continue reading
Kids Comic Con to Africa
I have spoken about Alex Simmons many times in this blog. Alex is a wonderful comic book writer for Archie Comics and his own comic book BlackJack featuring an African-American hero. And that’s not all. He and Eugene Adams, a … Continue reading
Stuck Rubber Baby
I left the Gulf Coast in 1968 to attend school in what seemed to be far away Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham-Southern College is a liberal arts school in every sense of the word. It is liberal and it has a strong … Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama, Birmingham-Southern College, DC Comics, Dr. Arnold Powell, graphic novels, Howard Cruse, Stuck Rubber Baby
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The Major and Wonder Woman
Like all young girls of my generation Wonder Woman was a great favorite of mine. Besides the beautiful artwork and all the Greek mythology and the women in charge I was wild about that costume. What little girl doesn’t want … Continue reading
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Tagged "the Major", Comic Con, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Pete Marston, William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman
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Comic Con 2010 in San Diego
The Setting I’m glad to know that Comic Con is staying in San Diego. Although I’m new to the Comic Con scenario, I have come to love going out to San Diego. There’s just something about California—the sunshine, the palm … Continue reading
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Tagged "the Major", Alabama, Alex Simmons, AlterEgo, Blackjack, Bradley Ricca, Comic Con, David Armstrong, DC Comics, Eisner Awards, graphic novels, Howard Cruse, Institute for Comic Studies, Kids Comic Con, Lawrence Klein, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Mike Catron, Mobile, Nancy Drew, New Fun, Peter Coogan, Siegel and Shuster, Stuck Rubber Baby
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“The Major” lands a cameo in the DC Documentary
Earlier this year DC/WB announced their intention of producing a documentary on the 75th Anniversary of DC Comics. The good news is that DC/WB decided to give Major Malcolm Wheeler Nicholson a small cameo and it’s at the very beginning … Continue reading
Family Business
My three Wheeler-Nicholson aunts were all attractive women with intelligence and good taste and a manner of living each in their own unique way that our grandmother, Elsa referred to as panache. The second sibling of the five, Aunt Marianne, … Continue reading
The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Going
Sorry about the long delay between posts but we had an invasion of spam bots or whatever it is they’re called these days and it took a while to finally figure out where they were getting in—like rats through a … Continue reading
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Tagged "the Major", Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, MWN military service, MWN pulp fiction
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New Fun Magazine–The Birth of an Industry by Jon Berk
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 … Continue reading
