Free Comic Book Day

[goldenboy]

http://www.freecomicbookday.com/

Saturday, May 5th. No Joss titles availble, but it sounds like fun. It'll help up his exposure a bit, you'd think.

 

[Mandy333]

I'm taking my brother there this sat. plus I'm picking up part 4 of Buffy:cheering:

 

[Mr. Pointy]

I first read this thread's title as "Free Comic Book Guy". "Aha", I thought, "that explains why I haven't received my copy of Season 8, No. 2...he's in prison..." Turns out he's one of the participating retailers in England. Must get Mrs P to apply more pressure to get my comic 🙂

 

[goldenboy]

I love all the trivia and factoids they have on that Website...

May 8, 1940: Chicago Daily News Literary Editor Sterling North denounced comic books as "a poisonous mushroom growth of the last two years," adding that comics were "guilty of a cultural slaughter of the innocents."

March 1948: In a Town Meeting of the Air radio broadcast, Saturday Review of Literature drama critic John Mason Brown described comic books as "the marijuana of the nursery; the bane of the bassinet; the horror of the house; the curse of the kids; and a threat to the future."

First Appearances

FIRST SUPERPETS

Ace the Bat-Hound Star Spangled Comics [HASHTAG]#100[/HASHTAG] (1/50); Batman #92, 6/55

Beppo the Supermonkey Superboy #76, 8/59

Captain Carrot New Teen Titans #16, 2/82

Comet the Superhorse Adventure Comics [HASHTAG]#293[/HASHTAG], 2/62

Cosmo (Challengers Spacepet) Challengers of the Unknown #18, 9-10/60

Krypto the Super Dog Adventure Comics [HASHTAG]#210[/HASHTAG], 3/55

Legion of Super Pets Adventure Comics [HASHTAG]#293[/HASHTAG], 2/62

Proty II Adventure Comics [HASHTAG]#316[/HASHTAG] , 1/64

Rang-A-Tang the Wonder Dog Blue Ribbon Comics #1, 11/39

Streak the Wonder Dog Green Lantern #30, 2-3/48

Streaky the Super Cat Action Comics [HASHTAG]#261[/HASHTAG], 2/60

Wolf (Boy Commandos mascot) Boy Commandos #34, 7-8/49