A BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE: Thanks to 1966 Batmania! Golden Age artist Wayne Boring — born June 5, 1905 — is so identified with Superman that every birthday salute we’ve ever done has featured the Man of Steel. But he also made a notable, if obscure, mark on the Caped Crusader at the height of 1966’s Batmania: He pencilled two of the six minicomics that were Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts premiums: The comics, which came folded in boxes of the sweet treats, are favorites among collectors, and Boring’s two included The Mad Hatter’s Hat Crimes and The Case of Batman II. The latter is definitely an adaptation of a regular comic-book story and the former may be, as well. I could only find one complete Boring story online, and that was on Steven Thompson’s blog, Booksteve’s Library. Dig this: — MORE — PAUL KUPPERBERG: My 13 Favorite WAYNE BORING SUPERMAN Splash Pages. Click here. — 13 COVERS: A WAYNE BORING Birthday Celebration (2023). Click...
HERO-A-GO-GO! “Last night, I took a walk after dark: a swingin’ place called Palisades Park…” — UPDATED 6/5/26: Summer’s not here yet, but the summer season is. Perfect time to reprint this piece, excerpted from Michael Eury’s superb book Hero-A-Go-Go! published by TwoMorrows. (We serialized the book when it came out in 2017.) Hero-A-Go-Go! is one of my personal faves and you can click here to order it, directly from TwoMorrows. Dig it. — Dan — Every Saturday for 13 weeks, we’re serializing Back Issue editor Michael Eury’s upcoming book Hero-A-Go-Go! — a ginchy exploration of the Silver Age and Swingin’ Sixties. For other installments, click here. And you can order the book here. — As a kid, sometimes the ads in comics were as captivating as the stories themselves, especially when you’d be reading through back issues — which for me generally meant the Batman comics of the ’60s. You’d come across things that were no longer available, making that desire to have that thing that much richer. Paging through those issues, I’d inevitably come across an ad for Palisades Park featuring Superman or Batman (or Wonder Woman). Come on, an amusement park featuring Batman and Superman? That’s a special corner of nirvana right there. Thing is, I didn’t really understand that it was less than an hour away from where we lived in New Jersey. Not that it mattered: By the time these ads pulled me under their sway, it had closed down anyway. Taking all that in, I’ve looked at those ads with a certain wistfulness. If I’d been born five years earlier, I almost certainly would have made it there. At least I like to think so, though maybe my Mom would argue that the Asbury Park boardwalk was a lot closer. Anyway, I was really pleased that Michael Eury decided to feature Palisades Park in Hero-A-Go-Go! and there was no way I wasn’t going to pick off an excerpt to share here. Here’s a truncated Q&A with Vince Gargiulo, the park’s most prominent historian and operator of PalisadesPark.com. Oh, and enjoy a couple of videos as well — including one that Batman collectibles maven Art Cloos found on YouTube. — By MICHAEL EURY Michael Eury: Since Superman was Palisades Park’s pitchman in DC Comics throughout the Sixties, did an actor dressed as Superman ever appear...
A BIRTHDAY SALUTE: Plus, a gigantic fold-out house ad…
The beloved writer turns 74!
A BIRTHDAY SALUTE: The late artist was born 104 years ago…
