Welcome.
This site owes its beginnings in part to the desire to write stories with
the characters in the public domain from the golden-age of comics. As
there were several sites reprinting such comics online, it became increasingly
difficult to keep track, so for my own amusement, I started a list of
heroes listing powers, when and where they first appeared etc., drawing
from many sources both online and various books such as Steranko's 2 volume
set and Jeff Rovin's Superhero encyclopedia. Wasn't long before I realized
I had a resource far beyond anything elsewhere. I toyed with the idea
of trying to learn how to do web pages. Then Jess Nevins launched his
golden-age superheroes site. When he expressed no interest in doing a
companion one with the villains, I decided to fill that void.
Since then, the site
has expanded far beyond the original goal to concentrate on just the public
domain characters. I expanded my scope to include both heroes and villains
for MLJ (Archie) and Fawcett as I found excellent resources with comics
from there. When the writer of TERRA OBSCURA was looking for a Princess
Pantha story, I scanned and posted one here. Now there are two Pantha
stories on site and a fledgeling attempt at giving a reprint home for
one of my favorite characters, the Fighting Yank. Another friend was looking
for a place to store some of his commissions of members of the Invaders
trumping the JSA, so you'll see a few of those here.
As the site grew
in scope, maintaining it also grew complicated. I'm hoping this new design
will prove easier in the long run to highlight changes. One of the biggest
changes is no longer will you have to go through the various pages to
see the updates. Instead I will have one page listing new heroes and villain
profiles. As time passes, they will be deleted from that spot and moved
to the respective pages they permanently belong.
Profiles: The Blitz, The Chief, Gargoyle, the Ghost, Limping Man, Lone Wolf, Nagana, Robot Pyroman, Skull Warriors, Sky Pirates, White Killer DC Villains: The Fly. Fawcett Villains: Turtle Men. Quality Heroes: Jester II, X of the Underground. Quality Villains: Fraulein Halunke, Jester. Time/Atlas Villains: The Brain.
Profiles: Black Doom, Black Baron, the Bolt, Dr. Horror, Goldmaster, Marty Kantz, Redbeard. Willow-the-Wisp. DC Villains: Fiddler II, Fawcett Villains: Death, Lo-Kar. Quality Heroes: Captain Fortune Quality Villains: Cadava, the Headless Men, the Mad Poet, Mr. Mole. Modified on Villains K-Z page: Vulture's Claw, the Witch. Added publishing info for Dr. Carver on Fawcett Villains page
Liberty Company: A new blog page for fiction. Right now, a timelinee of 100,000 BC to 1 AD as it factors in pulps, adventure/mystery literature and superheroes.
Golden-Age
Heroes pages: Added Jerry Morris. Updated Punch Powers, Duke of Darkness, Samson. Added some speculation to Dynamic Man, gave a possible middle name to Shock Gibson.
Profiles: Council of Vampires, Deathless Brain, Half-Man, Humpty Dumpty, the Mask, the Mummy Who Never Died, Norgo, Professor Evil, .Fawcett Villains: Korozan, Vampire Twins, Wickedness Inc., MLJ Villains: Satan
Hero-Goggles Power Nelson for President? And some comic reviews.
01/13/09
Golden-Age
Heroes pages: Crash Carter, Don Dixon, Space Rovers. Slightly modified Jon Linton, Mask, Theseus (including changing the entry to Thesson as that seemed to be the name he continued to adventure under), Larry North.
Profiles: Dichte, Dr. Hodl, Gorilla Men, League of Lilith, Men of Devolio, Nudo, Prince Igor, Satan-Rex. Heavily re-wrote Dr. Eptil entry. Quality Villains: Oscar Jones, Madame Doom. Quality Heroes: Destiny. Fawcett Villains: Expanded the Death Battalion entry
12/30/08
Golden-Age
Heroes pages: Crash, Cork, and the Baron. Jungol. Fangs. Click Hunt. Lank Strong. Speed Taylor. Zaro. Modified Girl Commandos and Pat Parker, Flag-man, ZX-5.
PROFILES: Anti Shock Gibson, Brown Terror, Glutton, Professor Klar, Maata, William Owens, Rajo, the Wasp. Quality: Brick Bat, Black Shark, King of the Caverns, the Skeleton. Fawcett: Water Man.
12/02/08
Golden-Age
Heroes pages: Added Rod Ripley, Jack Bradley, Dinky Dibbs, Durrand Draw, Driftwood Davey, El Kuraan, Tamaa, Commandos of the Devil Dogs, Captain Aero's Sky Scouts, Hunt Bowman, Impossible Man, Red Riot, the Three Vets, Race Wilkins. Expanded Auro, Blue Circle, V-Man, Jun-Gal, King O'Leary, the Liberty Lads, Miss Victory, el Toreador. Clarified some info on Dr. Mercy, the Golden Archer, the Steel Fist, the Black Widow.
PROFILES: Colonel Mara, Death Mask, Death Mask Pilot, faux Blue Beetle, the Hag, Mad Monster, Major Zero, Super Phony. Revised listing for the Stinger, Dr. Cadaver with corrected information.
11/24/08
Hero-Goggles A look at the cover for an upcoming issue of Savage Dragon, The Avenger Chronicles from Moonstone as well as a pulp story of the same character.
Golden-Age
Heroes pages: Added a Crimson Avenger, Kit Carter aka the Cadet, Fearless Fellers, Masked Ranger, Rick Richards, Edison Bell, Spitfire Sanders. Barebones entry on the Crime Crusader. Updated Cat-Man, Blue Bolt.
Hero-Goggles Review some stage productions I've seen recently as well as an Invaders trade and the recent Supernatural Essentials.
PROFILESBunches of Villains: Crutch Killer, Devil Ladies, Ghoul of Galhalla, Mrs. Fay Guinn, King of the World that Time Forgot, Molo, Queen of Simba Land, The Voice, Satan's Shoe, Satanas, Druids, Kitemen, The Knife, Sapphire King, Sihn Fang, Thinking Machine, and Yaho
11/04/08
Golden-Age
Heroes pages: Added entries on Ghanga/Gunga, Phantom Falcons II, Jack Wright, Spitfire Ace, and the Iron Ghost. Modified entries of Skull Squad, Powder Burns, Phantom Falcon II, and Parachute Patrol,
Golden-Age
Heroes pages: Added a few new entries: Tom Niles, the Skipper, the Black Terrors of Mexico.
Hero-Goggles I don't always refer to the updates on my blog, if you haven't checked it out in a while. The most recent I talked about Steven Grant's most significant comics list.
Hero-Goggles:HOT GIRL IN THE COMIC SHOP: A few links to places I
found of interest in the last few days such as a site with
a whole bunch of Old Time Radio shows of radio's premier air
ace Captain Midnight!
Scans from Bill Nolan's old Prescription for Excitement
site.
updated 02-23-08
Hero-Goggles:Secret Secret Origin of Superman? Cash Gorman weighs
in on Chris Knowles' theory that Action Comics #1 is based
on a renaissance painting of Heracles and where superheroes
got their costumes. Also a couple of links to read more about
Fletcher Hanks and AC's upcoming Green Lama mini-series.
updated 12-03-07
Hero-Goggles:Secret Secret Origin of Batman: Think you know everything
about the origins of Batman? Here's a bit of history of the
character and some of the predecessors that lead up to him
and other links along the evolutionary chain to comic book
superheroes.
