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Bizarro Back Issues: Boxing Day With Captain Marvel! (1944)
Bizarro Back Issues: Boxing Day With Captain Marvel! (1944)
Bizarro Back Issues: Boxing Day With Captain Marvel! (1944)
Christmas has once again come and gone, but before the holidays are over, there's one last celebration we all have to get through before New Year's rolls around and puts a cap on it: Boxing Day! The only problem is that the True Meaning of Boxing Day has been explored in roughly zero movies (as opposed to the True Meaning of Christmas, which has been pretty thoroughly dealt with in about 4,926), so I always just tend to think of it as a wintry celebration of people punching each other in the face. I always try to celebrate with the most pugilistic comic I can find, and this year, that led me to 1944's Captain Marvel Adventures #35, which promised a boxing match between Billy Batson's alter ego and a soldier, and then went on to become one of the all-time craziest comic books I have ever read.
9 Terrible Comics Starring Real People (and 4 That Are Actually Awesome)
9 Terrible Comics Starring Real People (and 4 That Are Actually Awesome)
9 Terrible Comics Starring Real People (and 4 That Are Actually Awesome)
These days, you can barely turn around without hitting an actor, singer, or pseudo-celebrity who wants to make their own comic book, but the current craze is nothing new -- bizarre celebrity cameos are as old as comics themselves, and Chris Sims of the Invincible Super-Blog has created a list of the nine worst appearances by real people in comics (and four that are actually pretty awesome)... Read