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Pop culture roundup

Comics historian Ron Goulart remembers Golden Age great Fred Ray.
No doubt his best remembered Superman cover is that for #14, showing the Man of Steel standing tall in front of a giant red, white and blue shield and holding a spread-winged American Eagle on his arm. Ray provided as well the dozen illustrations for Superman’s Super Contest in three 1941 issues of Action.

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Another comics historian, Barry Pearl, shares a couple of cool 1968 interviews: One with Stan Lee and a second with Lee, Jack Kirby, Gary Trudeau and Gahan Wilson. Barry's stuff is always worth checking out.

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Radio Times' 2005 "Vote Dalek" cover has been nominated as a "cover of the century" by the Professional Publishers Association in Britain.Voting is open here through September.


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Booksteve shares the true story of the Beach Boys' "Susie Cincinnati."

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The producers of "Mad Men" have hired a veteran 1960s illustrator, Brian Sanders, to design a period-correct image to promote the upcoming season of the show. Here's a sample of Sanders' 1960s work:


And here's his "Mad Man" art:


Fab Friday; Beatles pictures!

Launching a new feature this week for fellow Beatles fans.

The Beatles with Sir Laurence Olivier




Happy 80th birthday Michael Caine!



IDW to publish silver-age Superman, Batman and 1944 Wonder Woman newspaper strips

This is cool news: Whilst the 1940s runs of the Superman and Batman comic strips have been published in book form, we haven't seen collection of later strips.

IDW typically does a great job with these historic comics projects, so I look forward to these..

Details:
Although DC and Kitchen Sink Press reprinted the first few years of the Superman and Batman newspaper strips in the 1990s, they only scratched the surface of the comics’ run: Superman, which featured the work of such creators as Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Curt Swan and Wayne Boring, was serialized from 1939 to 1966. The Batman strip, originally titled Batman and Robin, saw three major runs — 1943 to 1946, 1966 to 1974, and 1989-1991. Wonder Woman’s newspaper tenure was much short-lived, lasting less than a year (in 1944).
The Superman daily strips will be released in three collections, organized by era — the Silver Age, the Atomic Age and the Golden Age — with Sunday reprints published in a separate, concurrent series later in the year.
“It’s like discovering an entire alternate universe of famous Silver Age comic book stories,” Dean Mullaney, who’s editing and designing the series, said in a statement. “It’s better than an imaginary story — it’s Jerry Siegel doing a remake of his classic Superman’s Return to Krypton! … it’s Curt Swan, not Al Plastino, drawing The Menace of Metallo. Superman fans might want to consider these strips as taking place on a brand-new world — Earth-N for Newspapers!”
Pete Poplaski, who created the covers for the Kitchen Sink Press editions, designed the covers, while It’s Superman! author Tom DeHaven wrote the foreword  for the Silver Age collection.