Pappy’s Favorites Number 6: “The First Batman”

I scanned “The First Batman” from my ragged old copy of Detective Comics #235 (1956).for a 2010 posting. It is one of the most nostalgic of all of my postings taken directly from my own comic book collection.

I mention in my comments that I haven’t read a Batman comic book in a long time. But from “The First Batman” I can still remember Lew Moxon and Joey Chill. How could I forget Joey Chill...? It is a great name for a killer.

Detective Comics #235 is still in my collection, but I have not taken it out of the bag since I scanned it for Pappy’s Golden Age Number 813. Go to it by clicking on the thumbnail below.

For those of you awaiting the return of the regular Pappy’s blog, my first new posting in two months will be this Friday, March 2. See you then!

Pappy's Favorites Number 5: "The Spirit’s thrice-told tale"

I love the Spirit, and had fun with this posting from 2010 because I got to show three versions of the Spirit’s origin.

Spirit creator Will Eisner, born in 1917, died in 2005. March 6, 2018, will be his 101st birthday. Someone told me once you’re alive if people remember you. So, Will, because of your work building the comics from scattershot publications on newsstands of the thirties to what they later became, your Spirit, and your personal spirit, are with us always.

You can see the three origins by clicking on the splash page below.

Pappy’s Favorites Number 4: "A thousand years a minute"

I am never too far from time travel stories. Time travel is a staple of fantasy and science fiction, irresistible to me. It makes this posting from 2013 one of my favorites.

In a four-part saga from the late thirties, All American Comics by author Carl H. Claudy, a team goes back a million years, to a time when “monsters stalked through the steaming jungle, and men hid in caves and hunted like apes!”

You can see this prehistoric comic serial by just clicking on the thumbnail below.

Pappy's Favorites Number 3: "Sparky goes for Hitler!"

As longtime readers know, I am fond of screwball humor, and one of the screwiest humorists in comic books of the 1940s was Gordon “Boody” Rogers, creator, writer and artist of Sparky Watts, Dudley, and Babe, Darling of the Hills.

Two of my favorite Boody postings are from 2011, featuring, in two parts, the epic tale of Sparky in the war zone, where he ends up in bed with Hitler(!) If you’re curious, go to Pappy’s Number 899. Part two of the story can be found at Pappy’s Number 900.