Showing posts with label Superboy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Superboy. Show all posts

17 April 2020

The Complete Barney Brainstorm

As noted once again in recent days, i have a fondness for Boy Inventor/Genius comics. One such character comes to us from Larry Harris and the pages of Top-Notch Laugh Comics back in 1944. Barney Brainstorm was bit older looking than the average comic book boy inventor, so perhaps he's got less time in the role than most.

Let's take a look, eh?



...and that's it. Every episode of Barney Brainstorm ever published. 

Five years later, "Brainstorm" Barney came along...


...but he's hardly a boy, though possibly classified as inventive.

page art by Larry Harris and John Sikela from Top-Notch Laugh Comics #45 and Superboy #31 (1944, 1949)

25 December 2018

Super Xmas

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Let's go big with 36 pages of Super Xmas - Siegel & Shuster Style - Sorta...

You see, while all these stories are signed by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, they didn't actually create them. This first tale is written by Don C. Cameron with art by Joe Sikela and George Roussos -






Ira Yarbrough and Stan Kaye provide the artwork on this next one, with Don Cameron believed to be the writer on this one as well -


Our final tale is brought to us by Alvin Schwartz and Win Mortimer -


If none of those names sound familiar to you, think of the frustration that creators must have suffered working under another's name. (And shame! for not recognizing Jack Kirby's inker on some of those early Fantastic Four issues)

page art from Adventure Comics #113 and Action Comics #s 93 & 117 (1946, 1947, 1948)