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Crack Comics is an anthology comic book series published by Quality Comics during the Golden Age of Comic Books. [1] It featured such characters as The Clock , Black Condor , Captain Triumph , Alias the Spider , Madame Fatal , Jane Arden , Molly the Model, and Red Torpedo .
A 1998 reader contest led to Smythe finally getting a full middle name: "Phooey." An article on Cracked.com , the website which adopted Cracked' s name after the magazine ceased publication, joked that the magazine was "created as a knock-off of Mad magazine just over 50 years ago", and it "spent nearly half a century with a fan base primarily ...
Back Issue! is an American magazine published by TwoMorrows Publishing, based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 2003 and published eight times yearly, it features articles and art about comic books from the 1970s to the present.
Begun in 1970 by Robert M. Overstreet as a guide for fellow fans of Golden Age and Silver Age comics, the Overstreet guide has expanded to cover virtually the entire history of the American comics publication as far back as the Victorian Age and Platinum Age. The annual edition also covers promotional comics (giveaways and advertising) and "big ...
With issue #7, the magazine switched to glossy paper and color printing. Wizard strongly supported new publishers Valiant Comics and Image Comics, heavily promoting their new releases. With its high-end production values and embodiment of the comic speculator boom, [4] Wizard was an instant hit, with a monthly circulation of more than 100,000 ...
Detective Comics #575–578; Batman: Full Circle: 176 November 28, 2017: 978-1401274566: A Death in the Family: 1988 Batman #426–429, plus "A Lonely Place of Dying" from Batman #440–442 and The New Titans #60–61 280 April 13, 2021: 978-1779509178: The Killing Joke: 1988 Batman: The Killing Joke: 64 March 19, 2008: 978-5012256263
All but two (#F–7, All-Star Comics #3 and #F–8, Flash Comics #1) included full-size glossy cover-stock reprints of the front and back covers in addition to the usual cardstock outer covers. Famous First Edition reprinted the comics in their entirety, including any paid advertising and other features that appeared in the original.
The series was initially titled World's Best Comics for its first issue; issue #2 (Summer 1941) switched to the more familiar name. Michael E. Uslan has speculated that this was because DC received a cease and desist letter from Better Publications, Inc., who had been publishing a comic book entitled Best Comics since November 1939. [ 1 ]