Reform School Girl! Giant Comics Editions! MORE! Pixelmon Media’s Golden Age Good Girl Comic Book Facsimile Collection project on Kickstarter — which we told you about earlier this month — is ready to launch March 17. But the folks behind it all are still putting the finishing touches on it, with two new tier bonuses, and the opportunity to have your issues graded by CGC, if you’re into that sort of thing. Dig the latest: — The first new tier bonus is Avon’s rare and uproarious 1951 Reform School Girl! This comic is an exclusive when backers buy The Top 10 and The Next Ten tiers together. — The second new tier bonus includes 1949’s Giant Comics Editions #12 from St. John that repackaged a bunch of previously released romance issues. This classic, boasting a Matt Baker cover, is an exclusive when backers buy the Top 10, Next Ten, and Final 15 tiers together. — Collectors will be able to select an add-on that will allow them to get issues slabbed by CGC. (This has become a thing among Facsimile collectors.) — Pixelmon has changed the title that was offered as a bonus to collectors who back the project within the first 48 hours of launch: 1950’s Blue Bolt #105, with its famed L.B. Cole cover, replaces Speed Comics #35. To rev up your engines, here are 13 more covers from the nearly 500 comics that will be in the campaign: Now, the kicker to the Kickstarter: While not Golden Age prices, the tiers are not inexpensive, with the lowest at $149, featuring 10 of the most famous Good Girl books of them all. Tiers go as high as $1,499, depending on the category and the number of issues included. Check out the full list here. Books will not be Golden Age dimensions. They will be Modern Age like most Facsimiles — 6.625 inches x 10.25 inches — so they can be easily stored in the typical long box. It’s also important to note that these Facsimiles will not be available anywhere else and will only be printed to order. There will be no overprint. The campaign, again, begins March 17. — MORE — The Greatest GOOD GIRL ART FACSIMILE EDITION Project You’ve Ever Seen. Click here. — 13 COVERS: A Gorgeous MATT BAKER Birthday Celebration. Click...
Straight from the red carpet! By PAUL KUPPERBERG When worlds collide! The make-believe world of comic books and the world of real-life celebrities, that is. In many cases, the collision was in the form of licensing deals between Hollywood A-Listers for starring roles in their own comic book titles like The Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis (later, after the duo split, just The Adventures of Jerry Lewis), The Adventures of Bob Hope, The Adventures of Alan Ladd, Jackie Gleason and the Honeymooners, Pat Boone, and Hopalong Cassidy — all published by DC Comics — to name a few. But celebrities would sometimes also appear as themselves in the comics, guest-starring alongside fictional characters, all the way back to the 1940s. I don’t know how it was decided which celebrities would make the cut, whether DC Comics reached out to them (or their “people”) or vice versa, probably a combination of both, but every now and then a familiar face from the movies or television would show up alongside Superman. Here then, with the Oscars on March 15, MY 13 FAVORITE DC COMICS CELEBRITY COVERS: — Real Fact Comics #4 (September/October 1946). Jimmy Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was the Tom Hanks of his day, an actor with an everyman persona, star of classic films, including Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It’s a Wonderful Life, Rear Window, Vertigo, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and dozens more. DC spotlighted the actor’s World War II career as a decorated (Distinguished Flying Cross, the French Croix de Guerre) B-24 bomber pilot (20 missions over Germany) in a story in their Real Fact Comics, “He Wanted Wings.” Art by Jack Lehti. — Action Comics #127 (December 1948). Ralph Edwards (June 13, 1913 – November 16, 2005) was a pioneering radio and television host who helped define early celebrity-focused programming by combining biography and surprise reunions. He was best known as the creator and longtime emcee of This Is Your Life and, of course, the game show Truth or Consequences. Art by Al Plastino. — Action Comics #130 (March 1949). Ann Blyth (August 16, 1928) is an American actress and singer who starred in 1940s and 1950s musicals and dramas, receiving an Academy Award nomination for her role in Mildred Pierce and starring in films such as The Great...
The celebrated Mr. K pays a birthday salute to a Golden Age great…
One of comics’ most respected artists turns 61…
The explosive moments of The Dark Knight Returns…
Honoring one of the all-time greats…
