Stupid Comics

Lightning Comics was a branch of the Milson Publishing Company in 1967. They only had two separate titles under this brand, Fatman The Flying Saucer and Super Green Beret. Both of these were created by the same artists, CC Beck and Otto Binder, who most people would know from their earlier work with Fawcett Comics in 1939 in making the original Captain Marvel, aka: "Shazam". After DC Comics eventually put Fawcett out of business because they believed Captain Marvel was ripping off Superman, DC bought the rights to the character and eventually put him under their own label, but only under the title of Shazam as the name Captain Marvel had been scooped up conveniently by Marvel Comics who was a totally different character. There was an other minor publisher in 1966 called MF Enterprises who came out with their own character named Captain Marvel that was a flying alien android with no connection to either DC or Marvel's, but MF Enterprises shut down due to legal conflicts. L...

From Blue Beetle to Catman, Joe Kubert is one of the most recognized artists of the Golden Age. He along with cartoonist Norman Maurer set up the renowned Joe Kubert School for young wannabe comic book artists. One of their earliest attempts at advertising was a comics ad that ran in 1953 and tried to horn in on the current trend of 3D comic books that had just come out. 3D comics were seen the same way as 3D movies that could be read with a special pair of glasses that usually came free with each issue, even though there weren't too many actual titles done in 3D. The advertisement would have been acceptable enough if it were just geared towards catching the eye of generic comic artists, but the fact that they put an emphasis on creating 3D comics makes it look really suspicious. The artwork used for 3D comics is roughly the same as regular ones, so there wasn't really any special reason to highlight 3D art. The ad claims to have received hundreds of letters on how to be a 3D c...