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Basil Wolverton's "SPACEHAWK and the Creeping Death from Neptune" (1940)
This is the first ever appearance of Spacehawk, from Target Comics No. 5 in June 1940, as found on comicbookplus. Spacehawk returned in 25 more issues. The whole series was collected in 2012 by Dark...
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Read it here: CIRCUS FISTS by Robert E. Howard (1931)
Between 1929 and 1934, Howard sold twenty adventures of Steve Costigan, the fighting sailor to various pulps. After an uneven start he hit his stride in 1931, and with "Circus Fists," from the May 1931...
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Forgotten Books: WATERFRONT FISTS by Robert E. Howard (2003)
Breckenridge Elkins is one of my favorite fictional characters of all time. He does not appear in this book. What makes Waterfront Fists special is that we see Howard feeling his way along and learning...
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AL FELDSTEIN'S "Johnny Prep" (1948)
Yeah, I know this one doesn't qualify as mystery, adventure or the wild west, but it features some great art by EC master Al Feldstein, and that's enough for me. It's from Aggie Mack #1, from Jan....
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MICKEY SPILLANE's protoHammer, "Mike Lancer" (1942)
You've probably heard of Mike Danger, the comic book private eye Spillane tried to market in 1946, just before introducing Mike Hammer in I, the Jury. But Hammer's first incarnation saw print way back...
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Not-so-Forgotten Books: BALL FOUR by Jim Bouton (1970)
This book is funny as hell, and is one of my favorites. I first read it back in the '70s, either before or during the time Bouton came to Portland to pitch for Bing Russell's free-wheeling independent...
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Read it Here: "Jinx Heap" by MICKEY SPILLANE (1942)
As early as Winter 1941, Mickey Spillane began providing short text stories to comic book publishers, and most (if not all) were reprinted in the 2004 Gryphon Books collection Primal Spillane. Many of...
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WILL EISNER sails with THE HAWK (1948)
From Sept. 1948, and Jumbo Comics #115, comes one of many of Eisner's adventures of The Hawk, as by "Will Rensie." Thanks again to comicbookplus.
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Forgotten Books: THE BUCCANEERS by Alice Sankey and Russ Manning (1958)
Who remembers The Buccanners? It was a British TV series produced in 1956 and '57 by ITC, the same outfit that did The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Adventures of Sir Lancelot. It was shown in...
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BASIL WOLVERTON'S Spacehawk and "The Lost Tribe of Mercury" (1940)
If you missed the first adventure of the mysterious Spacehawk, that's HERE. This second appearance is from Target Comics no. 6, from July 1940, and uploaded to comicbookplus by someone called "Yoc." A...
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