These days, they’d just chase some influencer grift instead. Recommended listening: From the second punk album I ever bought.

“But I thought the doctor’s name was Victor!” “It is! I’m just a carpet wholesaler who got into serial killing as a side hustle since I was already saddled with the surname.” Recommended listening: Eh, “Build Me Up, Buttercup” got there first.

…and thus ended the short-lived feud between the Pussycats and the Groovie Goolies. Recommended listening: It’s Spooky Season appropriate because, let’s face it, you are utterly horrified I posted it here.

From the letters page of The Witching Hour #53 (April 1975) comes a fascinating glimpse into the cinematic fantastic during the Gerald Ford era. “You don’t understand what things were like before Star Wars” has become the stuff of cliche when oldsters (such as myself) deploy it in discussions about how utterly that film changed […]

  (from “The Second Death of the Spectre” in Adventure Comics #440, July-August 1975; by Michael Fleisher and Jim Aparo) Testing… Testing… Is this thing still on? Sigh. If nothing else, the thick veneer of dust and curtains of cobwebs which have accumulated in Armagideon Time HQ will add to the ambience of my foolhardy […]

Look, the laws of physics just work differently in pre-Code horror-revenge stories, okay? (from “Symphony in Death” in Menace #11, January 1954; art by Joe Maneely, other credits as yet unknown) Recommended listening:

All those PSAs and parental lecture were right — peer pressure can make a person do the darndest thing. I can hear my mom’s voice now: “If Mike Sterling bought some original comics art, would you buy some, too?” Well, yeah, mom. Mike is the coolest cat in the funnybook blogging scene, and that would […]

I’m still in the process of sorting out the first “real” installment of the Crisis feature, so let’s take a gander at an ancillary project which showed up on my doorstep this past weekend. Who’s Who in the DC Universe has been on my short list of projects since I got onto the whole custom […]

“When I finally get around to my Crisis on Infinite Earths post..” What began as a mixture of threat and promise has become something of a personal in-joke over the past few years, lofty ambitions colliding with the reality of my protracted disengagement with this site. Between you and me, writing is something I do […]

The goal of my ongoing binding project was to create durable and easier-to-shelve collections of funnybooks which, for various reasons, haven’t and most likely wouldn’t see an official trade paperback or hardcover release. Most of these fall into one or two year runs from a single title — Atari Force, Young Heroes in Love, the […]