One of my duties in the early 2000s as an editor in DC Comics’ Licensing Group was to write or re-write a variety of DC Superhero themed stunt and stage shows presented at the various Six Flags Amusement Parks across the country.… Read the rest
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Time Warp was a DC Comics science fiction title that ran for five issues between October-November 1979 and June-July 1980. Published in the Dollar Comic format (64-pages, no ads, for a buck) and sporting covers by Michael Kaluta, Time Warp featured all new stories by a variety of talent.… Read the rest
The character of Ch’p, the Green Lantern from the planet H’lven, first appeared in an untitled Tales of the Green Lantern Corps back-up story in Green Lantern #148 (January 1982). Ch’p wasn’t supposed to be a joke, contrary to the eventual fate of the character at the hands of the clueless.… Read the rest
Once upon a time, the mighty Warner Entertainment was known as Warner Bros. and it wasn’t so mighty. In fact, in 1968, it was sold to Steve Ross’s Kinney National Company, a small conglomerate consisting of a Hollywood talent agency, parking lots, cleaning companies, and funeral homes for $64 million.… Read the rest
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I had a great time at the 2016 TerrifiCon at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT. I did several panels over the weekend, including one called “The History of DC Comics” with my old friend, former DC Comics president and publisher and author of the exhaustive 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking.… Read the rest
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A back-up story I wrote for DC Comics’ Atari Force #13 (January 1985), pencilled by Dave Manak and inked by Keith Giffen that I have no recollection of, even after just stumbling across it in a box of old duplicates. And even though I wrote it, I still gotta ask: What’s a Hukka?… Read the rest
From the dim recesses of the past, a little Kramer Vs. Kramer action with a supernatural twist in a 7-pager for editor Karen Berger in House of Mystery #254 (July, 1981). Great storytelling, as ever, from penciller George Tuska, with some overwhelming, as ever, but beautiful inks by Tony DeZuniga.… Read the rest
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Where were you on Wednesday, January 12, 1966 at 7:29 p.m. EST? Me, I had my ass planted firmly in front of our TV set, warmed up and tuned to ABC, channel 7 in New York, ten and one half years old and breathlessly awaiting the debut of Batman, starring Adam West and Burt Ward.… Read the rest
The legendary “DC Implosion” of June 1978 (leading to the sudden cancellation of twenty-six new titles that were in various states of production when the hammer fell) lead to the creation of another legend:
Cancelled Comics Cavalcade.
CCC was a black and white Xeroxed two-volume collection of all the stories and covers that had to be shelved because of the cancellations.… Read the rest
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On the cusp of its 40th anniversary, here’s an article I wrote for The Amazing World of DC Comics Special Edition No. 1 Celebrating the Super DC Con ’76, the program book for that legendary gathering. Back in the olden continuity, Kal-El/Clark Kent’s birthday had been established as falling on February 29 (thank you, E.… Read the rest
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