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Bizarro Back Issues: Captain Marvel and the Peace Ray (1946)
Bizarro Back Issues: Captain Marvel and the Peace Ray (1946)
Bizarro Back Issues: Captain Marvel and the Peace Ray (1946)
So yeah. That happened. Oh, relax. Despite the unfortunate modern-day subtext of that panel, the crook here only means it in the sense of generally harming. Point is, I've been reading through a lot of Golden Age Captain Marvel Adventures comics lately, and if I've learned nothing, it's that Billy Batson and his super-heroic alter ego face even stranger situations than the average Golden Age hero
Fatman: The Human Flying Saucer — The Silver Age Madness of Otto Binder and C.C. Beck
Fatman: The Human Flying Saucer — The Silver Age Madness of Otto Binder and C.C. Beck
Fatman: The Human Flying Saucer — The Silver Age Madness of Otto Binder and C.C. Beck
In 1939, Otto Binder and C.C. Beck created Captain Marvel for Fawcett Comics, and for a while, he was the single most popular super-hero in the world. So popular, in fact, that his adventures were outselling even Superman's, which led pretty much directly to a lawsuit from National (the company that would later become DC) that successfully alleged that Captain Marvel was infringing on their existi