This Article Originally Ran On Birth.Movies.Death.com Showcase #4 was a big hit, you could say it sold out in a “flash” if you wanted to be a real unfunny prick about it. Point is, DC Comics knew they had something on their hands with the Silver-Age Flash. DC rushed to get Flash back into the pages of Showcase , and fit in two Flash stories in issue 8. In a sure sign that DC wasn’t sure who or what would sell a comic, the cover story for Showcase #8 is for the Flash story Th

1 The first light of the sun was beginning to break open the dark sky. Selena of the Wolf Clan yawned and shivered, her breath dissipating before her eyes. “This is boring,” she thought, sitting high off the ground in a tree looking out over the field before her, “Still, better this than school”. Selena hated school. Her classmates at Martin Van Buren High were fools, always arguing over music and television. On Fridays, they would all talk about what they would do over the w

This Article Originally Ran On Birth.Movies.Death.com Harry Donenfeld was the CEO of National Allied Publications, which was best known for publishing the ever exciting adventures of Superman in Action Comics , as well as the CEO of Detective Comics, which published… well you don’t need to be Batman to solve that mystery. Overall, he was happy with the way things were going, but Harry was worried about one thing - he feared that his partner, Jack Liebowitz, would leave Nation

This Article Originally Ran On Birth.Movies.Death.com As I’ve mentioned before, one of the things I really love about the history of DC Comics is the way they handled their Golden Age heroes as time moved on. DC reveled in the idea of legacy characters while accepting that some characters like Superman and Batman could never be legacy*. Atom Smasher is one of the more interesting, and dark, legacy characters. To start off, we need to talk a little about Al Pratt, the Golden A