Dead End Kids Article-1938

Lots of interesting info in this article. Longtime readers may recall that the first book I ever tried to write was a history of the Dead End Kids. I gave up when someone actually came out with one.

D-Day-June 6th, 1944

My Dad was a "male nurse" who stayed behind in England awaiting casualties returned across the Channel. He always remembered D-Day itself as a day he lost a lot of dice games. The next day he wouldn't talk about. Ever. 

MLJ in the 1990s

Throughout the 1990s, Archie Comics quietly kept alive--and even updated!--their MLJ legacy superheroes in the pages of their various digest comics, mostly through the courtesy of Paul Castiglia. It wasn't easy to keep up with them as they were practically thrown away as one or two page PSAs. Here are just a few examples.

Danny Kaye For US Travel Service-1962

Jack Benny and Friends

The Mafked Minuteman

Here's one I never heard before. Dick Orkin brought forth the legendary CHICKENMAN and later THE ADVENTURES OF THE TOOTH FAIRY (still being rerun locally after more than 3 decades at--wait for it--2:30 every afternoon!) and then, just in time for America's Bicentennial, THE MAfKED MINUTEMAN! Has anyone heard any of these? I certainly never did.

Cartoonists and Harry Truman-LIFE