Who ya got? Yankees? Dodgers? Judge? Ohtani? We got Kent!
By PETER BOSCH
“Now batting — Superman.” Oh, man, wouldn’t you love to have Superman on your team? Every ball he hits, outta the park! Every hit from the other team, not a chance of it being a home run when he can just fly up to catch it.
With Oct. 25 the start of the 2024 World Series — a Yankees-Dodgers showdown that has the potential to be the best Series in a generation or two — what better way to celebrate among comics fans than with 13 COVERS featuring the Man of Stealing Third and a few of his friends?
Play ball!
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World’s Finest Comics #3 (Fall 1941, DC). Art by Fred Ray. Wanna know what happened two seconds later? Click here.
World’s Finest Comics #15 (Fall 1944, DC). Art by Jack Burnley.
Flash Comics #90 (Dec. 1947, DC). Pencils: Carmine Infantino. Inks: Frank Giacoia.
Superman #60 (Sept.-Oct. 1949, DC). Art by Al Plastino.
Superman #66 (Sept.-Oct. 1950, DC). Art by Plastino.
Wonder Woman #78 (Nov. 1955, DC). Art by Irv Novick.
Superboy #57 (June 1957, DC). Pencils: Curt Swan. Inks: Stan Kaye.
Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #37 (June 1959, DC). Pencils: Swan. Inks: Kaye.
Adventure Comics #285 (June 1961, DC). Pencils: Swan. Inks: Kaye.
Action Comics #389 (June 1970, DC). Pencils: Swan. Inks: Murphy Anderson.
The Incredible Hulk #435 (Nov. 1995, Marvel). Pencils: Gary Frank. Inks: Al Milgrom.
Triple-A Baseball Heroes #1 (Aug. 2007, Marvel). Art by John Watson.
Sports Illustrated, May 26, 2008 (Time Inc.). Pencils: John Bagley. Inks: Karl Story.
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For the record Hollywood Peter is rooting for the Dodgers. New York Dan has the Yanks all the way.
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MORE
— FRED RAY’s Classic WORLD’S FINEST BASEBALL COVER — Two Seconds Later! Click here.
— JACK KIRBY’s Rare 1960s Baseball Card Art to Get Spotlight. Click here.
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13th Dimension contributor-at-large PETER BOSCH’s first book, American TV Comic Books: 1940s-1980s – From the Small Screen to the Printed Page, was published by TwoMorrows. A sequel, about movie comics, is coming soon. Peter has written articles and conducted celebrity interviews for various magazines and newspapers. He lives in Hollywood.
October 25, 2024
Love it! Want extra innings? Toss in (I think it was) Strange Sports Stories #1 from the 70s with the Devil pitching on the cover!
October 25, 2024
DC Super-Stars #10 from the 1970s had a superhero vs super villains baseball game story by Bob Rozakis that was so fun I’ve been trying to collect the original art pages from it since I read it…so fun!
October 26, 2024
The golden agish covers are out standing going extra innings with the simplicity to convey the point. I had not seen the Flash cover before. Thanks