Our newly minted columnist brings you the greatest comics that never really stood a chance… Hey, for the fifth week in a row, comics vet Paul Kupperberg is making an appearance at 13th Dimension. This officially makes him a regular 13th Dimension contributor — and yes, there will be a parade once all of us can leave our homes and gather in safety. Anyway, let’s get right to Paul’s MY 13 FAVORITE SHORT-LIVED SERIES OF THE 1960s: — By PAUL KUPPERBERG Just to be clear, I could have made this my 33 Favorite Short-Lived Series of the 1960s and still have hardly scratched the surface. The mid-1960s was my Golden Age of Comics. I was born in 1955, so I was entering that sweet spot of pop culture addiction just as the 1966 Batman TV show hit the airwaves, sparking the campy, Pop Art era of comics during which sales perked up, new publishers popped up, and the established publishers revved up their outputs. Marvel was just starting to come into its own and DC was shaking off some of its stodginess as new blood like Denny O’Neil, Cary Bates, Steve Skeates and Neal Adams began upping the game for their peers. Everyone was having a go at superheroes, from Otto Binder and C.C. Beck’s inane Fatman the Human Flying Saucer for Lightning Comics to Steve Ditko’s philosophical Question and Blue Beetle at Charlton. It was a time when we were literally kids given free rein in a candy store, because candy stores (and drugstores and stationery stores, etc.) were where us kids went every week to seek out whatever new four-color treasures awaited us on the newsstand. These are the comics I read and reread, the ones I’d grab to take on long car rides or boring visits to relative’s houses. — 1. Super Heroes #1-4 (Dell Comics, January–June 1967) Putting aside that this is a serious contender for “Worst Comic Book Series Ever,” I loved Super Heroes, one of several of Dell’s sorry attempts at superheroes during the boom. They were fine with funny animals and movie/TV adaptations, but action/adventure? The story is about four teens (Dan, Polly, Tom and Reb, who says “y’all” a lot) who are able to transfer their minds into a quartet of super-powered androids (El, for Electricity, Polymer Polly, Hy and Crispy)...