Dave's Comic Heroes Blog

A blog about comic books, and enjoying the stories, characters and creators of them...and occasionally subjects that relate to comic books as well.

Sunday, January 8, 2017

Thank You Very Much Says Elvis To Captain Marvel Jr

Elvis Presley was a big fan of comics, specifically, those of artist Mac Raboy , and the hero he drew in the 1940s, Captain Marvel, Jr., t...

Thursday, January 5, 2017

Batman Annual 1 of 1961

DC's second Annual of reprints, Batman Annual #1 from the summer of 1961 was a collection of important Batman stories detailing how t...

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

More Secret Origins of 1965

It took a little while, and time for DC to publish a few annuals for characters like Superman, Batman and Flash, but DC established a line...

Sunday, January 1, 2017

Have a Super New Year

Happy New Year... ...with this cover from Action Comics #81 (February, 1945), depicting Superman casting off the old year and welcoming...

Thursday, December 29, 2016

Secret Origins of 1961

Technically, the secret origins reprinted in the Secret Origins collection of Summer, 1961 happened before that date. It was a super ...

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Happy Birthday Stan Lee

Stan Lee , co-creator of the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, Iron Man and Thor (with Jack Kirby ) and Spider-Man and Doctor Strange (with Steve ...

Sunday, December 25, 2016

A Crazy Christmas

From October, 1973 to April, 1983, Marvel was Crazy ! That is, they made a humor magazine, similar to Mad and Cracked , that featured ...

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Dave's Not Here Comic Blog: Here's the blog of Dave Marchand, master of comic info....giving a little history of important characters and events that have happened in the world of comic books and science fiction!

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