SoonerCon 2008's theme is "Pirates." So in honor of that, here's an ad from Superboy #69, featuring ... ... a Pir...

Thanks to SoonerCon, I have a fistful of comics in exchange for several fistsful of dollars. One of the cheaper investments was World'...

SoonerCon 2007 is now over (yea!) I found lots of cool stuff to share (yea!). Here is a copy one of DC's...

This article by Elliott Maggin is from the April 1984 issue of On Cable magazine. When the article shifts gears and starts to...

1988 was Superman's 50th Anniversary year, and Video Review magazine presented a feature article, shown below.

(with apologies to the Beatles) You'll notice that the Cyborg don't appear. That's because he was dead at the time (for ...

More headlines from the "Death of Superman" saga. I tend to agree with the guy in the last paragraph of this article when he ment...

Take a little trip with me back almost 15 years, to November of 1992. Thanks to a bad ol' puddy-tat named Doomsday, Superman met his ...

As we all know (right?), Superman's 50th birthday was celebrated in 1988. Among the festivities was a special...

I've had this kicking around for at least twenty-five years, and I have no idea where I got it. However, it appeals to my sense of the a...

Entitled Sorry, Chief , this is the second Get Smart tie-in novel. I wonder if William Johnston was a pen name (like David McDaniel on th...

Did you know that, through TIME-LIFE, you can buy the entire Get Smart TV series on DVD? I can't afford that. But I c...

He doesn't care if you come to SoonerCon bcause of him or not. All he cares about is stopping those who knowingly break the law. T...

Well, we saw Grindhouse this past week. I have two comments. 1) I wish that somebody had washed this script's mouth out, especial...

Back in December my new bosses were very wise and gave me a silly Christmas present, one of those 30-inches-tall Superman figures. ...

As a junior in high school, I was given a dream job for one school period. My credits were all caught up, so I became a "teacher's...

While moving a Honking Big Bookshelf at home in the study (aka The Fortress of Markitude), I found two books had fallen down behind. ...

Well, I just talked to Mom about 8:30 tonight. Yesterday she called me to say that Dad was in the hospital and not expected to be able to c...

Yes, in the early 1970s there arose a character so silly, a personage so outre, that he dared not even place his actual name in the credit...

As you can see, these came out in the throes of the Superman Animated Series.