GOLDEN AGE (1938-1956)
The Haunted Car (1953)
“The Haunted Car” originally featured in Prize Comics: Frankenstein No.26 (1953) About fifteen years ago, I used to run an audiobook podcast. I kind of miss it. So, when I started reading old comic books with text stories, I thought …
Frankenstein – Volume 04 Issue 26
My Rating ★★ “The Battle Of The Monsters!” Marooned a shrinking chunk of ice, the Frankenstein Monster has little choice but starve to death while floating in the North Atlantic. That, of course, is if he doesn’t freeze first. The …
Venus – Volume 01 Issue 03
My Rating ★★★ “The Handsomest Man In The World!” Lookout girls, Hollywood’s most handsome man is in town and Rodney Radiant isn’t taking any phone numbers. That means, hands off the merchandise! The only beauty he needs is his very …
Wonder Woman – Volume 01 Issue 01
My Rating ★★★★ “Wonder Woman’s Story” Men, the bane of women’s existence. Ever since the mighty Zeus allowed his son Ares to introduce war, women have become less than animals to the male sex. For generations, females were traded and …
Jumbo Comics – Volume 01 Issue 158
My Rating ★★★ “Gun-Trek To Panther Valley” B’Tonga and his raiders had eluded Sheena for weeks now, using old game trails to navigate the Congo. But, as the season grew hotter, and the animals grew restless, the homicidal Chieftain began …
Adventures in 3-D – Volume 01 Issue 01
My Rating ★★★★★ “Breaking The Time Barrier!” Zero-hour – 0900, the U.S. Army is about to launch its ultra secret rocketship with the world’s first atomic powered time-reactor drive. On board are three of the army’s best pilots. Their mission …
Venus – Volume 01 Issue 02
My Rating ★★★★ “Way Out West!” Yee Haw! Venus was supposed to be showing off her curves at a Atlantic City beauty pageant but someone altered Mr. Hammond’s Telegram. Welcome to Cactus City little cowgirl! Who could have changed the …
Venus – Volume 01 Issue 01
My Rating ★★★★ “Venus Comes To Earth (Venus – Part 01)” Venus stood in the middle of a roadway marked Lexington Avenue as noisy machines raced around her heading in opposite directions. Some of them even blared what sounded like …
Frankenstein – Volume 01 Issue 01
My Rating ★★★★ Frankenstein’s Creation On a dark and gloomy night, high above a sinister looking mountain, a elderly scientist sits in his crumbling castle. The man dreads the month of November as it is a time of boredom and …
Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker – Volume 01 Issue 364
My Rating ★★★★ The Man From Mars Woody Woodpecker has just been kidnapped by a man from Mars! Why wouldn’t his grumpy neighbor Tackhammer listen to him? The signs were all over the sky last night! Now our pesky protagonist …