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MISTER MIRACLE was created by #JackKirby, but after Kirby left #DCComics the character was revived by Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers. Here's the digitally restored #HouseAd trumpeting the thrilling return of Scott Free...
MISTY! Published in 1978 by IPC, this #UKComics series aimed at girls had a spooky theme and is fondly-remembered today. Here's a digitally restored inside front cover portrait of Misty herself as depicted by Shirley Bellwood. @britcomics is reprinting a variety of MISTY stories.
In the shops now...! BACK ISSUE 138 published by Twomorrows features an article by me looking at #DCComics reinvention of the venerable Revolutionary War character Tomahawk and his son, Hawk -- SON OF TOMAHAWK! I restored a bunch of Frank Thorne pages especially for the article.
ANGEL AND THE APE! Digitally restored splash page from the debut issue (Nov-Dec 1968) of the #DCComics series starring glamorous detective Angel O'Day and her comic artist gorilla pal Sam Simeon. A SHOWCASE and 7 issues were all we got, but they were great fun. Art by Bob Oksner.
POWER GIRL! First appearing in ALL-STAR COMICS 58 as part of the JSA Super-Squad, the Earth-2 counterpart of Supergirl got her own tryout series in SHOWCASE 97 (Feb 1978) -- here's the #DCComics house ad. Art by Joe Staton and Joe Orlando. Digitally restored.
@MartGray And he can get fish to recite Silver Age DC creators...
For the love-struck out there... By the early 1970s #DCComics still had seven ongoing Romance titles in its lineup. Marvel had a couple, and Charlton had 12! Say what you like about the now largely ignored genre - back in the day, it was very popular. Art by Nick Cardy - restored
MISTER MIRACLE was created by #JackKirby, but after Kirby left #DCComics the character was revived by Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers. Here's the digitally restored #HouseAd trumpeting the thrilling return of Scott Free...
Enemy Ace! A terrific, if morbid, classic #HouseAd for an issue of #DCComics STAR SPANGLED WAR STORIES from 1968. The Enemy Ace stories by Robert Kanigher and #JoeKubert are brilliant and well worth searching out.
This terrific Jim Aparo-drawn panel from AQUAMAN 50 (March-April 1970) contains the names of a number of Silver Age comics luminaries -- how many can you identify...?