“Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story” is a 67-year-old colorful comic book still making an impact across the globe today. At cross-cultural gatherings in Bethlehem, West Bank, groups of ...

The 1950s was a time of transition for DC Comics. The comic book industry needed to evolve to remain relevant and to adjust to the rising restrictions on how much violence and other adult themes could ...

A detail from Johnny Craig's infamous cover to "Crime SuspenStories" No. 22 from EC Comics. Credit: Comic Book cover For avid followers of comic book history, 1954 was the most epochal, unsettling, ...

Knowledge Waits is a feature where I just share some bit of comic book history that interests me. Today, I celebrate 75 years of Lana Lang. Back in the late 1940s/early 1950s, superhero comic books ...

In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, we head to January 1975 for Howard the Duck's ...

The American frontier meets the final frontier in a new trade paperback that collects the entire Space Western Comics – a bizarre 1950s mashup comic from the creator of iconic crime fighter, The ...

(RNS) — ‘You have done a marvelous job of grasping the underlying truth and philosophy of the movement,’ the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote to the creator of a comic book about civil rights. (RNS) ...

(RNS) — At cross-cultural gatherings in Bethlehem, West Bank, groups of children and adults turn to a 67-year-old, colorful comic book with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s image on its cover, his ...