The publication Pep Comics was a comic book series from Archie Comics. The first issue introduced a line of superheroes and other characters: The Shield, The Comet by Jack Cole, Sergeant Boyle and more.

The funny animals stories vanished in the second issue. The next big change was issue 12 where the Press Guardian and Fu Chang went and in their place; Fireball. Fireman Ted Tyler is unconscious in a room filled with chemicals in a fire started by arsonist, The Bug. He wakes up with the same powers as Timely’s the Human Torch. He wore a costume as the Fireball but people knew he was Tyler.

The Boys is an American creator-owned comic book series, written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Darick Robertson. The series is set in a contemporary world very much similar to real one, with one notable exception: a number of people have some form of superpower. The series follows a superpowered CIA squad, known informally as “The Boys”, whose job it is to keep watch on superheroes and, if necessary, intimidate or kill them.

Chad from the GraphiContent-blog reviews The Boys #26.

When i read doctor-k100-blog {a great blog BTW} a bout a week ago i saw Dr. K posted a link to Waimea.

Waimea is a serialized-biweekly graphic novel that tells the story of three people who find themselves living under unusual circumstances in Hawaii. It is written by Kevin Church comics writer and commentator as well as a fair-to-middling photographer and drawn by Mike Dake.

Michael Dake is eighteen years old, and a current student at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. One day he hopes to be a Kentucky Colonel.

Dr. K writes:

The first episode is already an impressive effort. Mike Dake’s art has an animated style that works well with this material, and Kevin Church has created characters and a situation that had me immediately hooked in the first seven pages.

Famous Monsters of Filmland was a genre-specific film magazine started in 1958 by publisher James Warren.

Famous Monsters of Filmland which quickly became known to fans as simply FM was originally conceived as a one-shot publication with no discernible future, published in the wake of the widespread success of the “Shock” package of old horror movies syndicated to American television in 1957. But the first issue, published in February 1958, was so successful that it required a second printing to fulfill public demand.

FM offered brief articles, well-illustrated with publicity stills and graphic artwork, on horror movies from the silent era to the current date of publication, their stars and filmmakers. Warren and Ackerman decided to aim the text at late pre-adolescents and young teenagers.

Johnny from the johnny bacard-blog share with as the first copy of FM purchased for him by his doting grandparents at the local Houchens Market when was was 6 years old.

I wanted to read more about it- and this issue certainly did the trick. As it turned out, not long after they screened Invasion of the Saucermen as well, and I liked that one too- and to this day I have a deep fondness for both.

The Justice League JLA for short, is a fictional DC Comics superhero team. The League originally appeared with a line-up that included Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman and the Martian Manhunter. However, the team roster has been rotated throughout the years with the recognizable characters Green Arrow, Atom, Hawkman, Black Canary, Captain Marvel, Plastic Man and dozens of others.

The Justice League operated from a secret cave outside of the small town of Happy Harbor, Rhode Island. Teenager Snapper Carr tagged along on missions, and was both the team’s mascot and an official member. Snapper, noted for speaking in beatnik dialect and snapping his fingers, helped the League to defeat giant space starfish Starro the Conqueror in the team’s first appearance.

Tom from the comics ate me brain-blog argued previously that the Justice League is a “clash of genres.”

That phrase might not be perfectly accurate, but it’s a good soundbite. Batman has some pulp roots (Zorro, the Shadow). The Flash and the Atom are science-heroes, powered by vaguely plausible experiments/accidents. Green Lantern and Hawkman are space-opera characters. Zatanna straddles the Vertigo line. The Elongated Man and the Martian Manhunter are different types of detectives; and at one point Booster Gold and Captain Atom were different kinds of “men out of time.” The ones I would call “pure” superheroes — for purposes of this post, “fantasy” characters — include Aquaman, Superman, and Wonder Woman.