The world does not need another site that makes fun of comic books; there are many, and they are much more complete and exhaustive than this one. Who cares? It’s the internet. There’s room for all!

The following items were gathered here and there with great affection and nostalgia; I read a million comics as a kid, and still remember the pleasures of finding a new issue at the drugstore. I was, however, a Marvel kid in the early 70s, which was a golden time to be a comics reader. Prior to that, you had an almost infinite  amount of Superman-related crap, bad sci-fi, junky TV-show tie-ins, and the rest of the endless drecktitude.

Covers handles the big garish splashy illustrations that suckered kids into parting their coins. (Note: the site had a confused beginning, and took a few pages to settle on covers.) The first page is here; the latest page is here. Updated every Tuesday.

Ads is a new site devoted to the cardboard subs, 120-piece Army Man kids, seed-selling come-ons, salve merchants, shoe and bike ads, and all the other mainstays. The site debuted in November 08, and updates in five- or six-page chunks on Fridays.

Strips is an older site, but not too stupid-looking; it’s the repository for pre-60s newspaper comics. Special features include Jerry on the Job, and of course Lance Lawson – a late-40s whodunit strip that originated in Minneapolis. There are over 60 strips collected here.

Big Little is an old site about Big Little Books. It’ll get an upgrade in ’09.

Excelsior! Face Forward, True Believer! In the name of Irving Forbush, enjoy! 

--Lileks

December 08