The Mid-Day Matinee this week, all week:
DC Ads of the Golden Age! Forget the New 52...let's kick it
old schoo'! Here's announcements and advertisements for all the comics books that were the rage back in the cheerful, joyous happy days of the Depression and World War II, introducing a few guys who you might remember today, if they could stick around for a while. But now, less talk, more
Action...on
DC Ads of the Golden Age!
![Note there is absolutely NO MENTION in the ad of SUPERMAN.](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_s_JSDNg8Y8OMeYB6IxlXwbDs2W1tVIxDGrY_mISDHgaFLkQLx6dL6vRMhT5EihAP1CQhy8EOTg3XRFggUVbHe7Pk7xMVNQEcuPMM8U97DxUcrFa2Zv2Bvn688b8WXqWHgE80SNuSZ_DoyDdMdnhvM6py6OX736zzs=s0-d)
![If you took that $25 cash prize and bought 250 copies of ACTION #1 and squirreled them away, you'd now have the grand total sum of OH MAMA!](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vopYqjdAN8_K2t3SW7WSN2p-SRjvh4fm60w5WnUnO_wRxQQXLBjporJQYX4YjWPcpCo9JaCmzsrbr69st-0KXL1YRCNqHPB_0HhmR8YFvJBWWtiq0eMfn1S6boJ5ZbGwYXadNjfCYr3He638pzd86Xhdl00DvZGw=s0-d)
![Superman: just a passing craze.](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tPpw7_dYEOd6vqqbXCAO0SorK9P37ddEHJAOVCdSEGpGfAzHC8fGHfr7joBhXvZXTH1NXkUD894wQPZBocndpqgWe9yRQYGR_PqgPUsxyb0Tr18G-65O2jJSJAM-I56kjtyezNO2GHt7LmWyX4V82ZEjVQKDvGJQ=s0-d)
Inside front covers of Detective Comics #15, 16, and 17 (May, June, and July 1938)
Hey, check it out...
Separated at Birth!:
![Ah ahhhhhh!](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tcmNeZUPt1Z2HM563MLl8bcQe4XoP1CUZt8ALPEdbs57pC_ndtGBFBTHslRyfh5hWPJrOGZmKNne6fqgoa_uT564egeHf4kfDWdiuuv7Y8MU_LuC6UGmsCynNg6_F0JVmknNcmMPf-U5gwo5Hj2HyB2OZibZ7rL_LPG6Tj=s0-d)
![Lightning-fast? I thought BENDIS invented decompression!](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uKv3fgB_4uP-E4bBWplxPbVrpLtrasFJZwEJnR6T3H1z6mBHyCCAEhAQuFe5noNcWFRYK4GQnTqXULCRfacQFiBwdj9_HIz6InGohgPkVo3OZrpLS_uHsvjC-hL9t_qc-1uqkwoLBstEX6M1CYYlgEBcNj6S-6w-TKJ1KXAGo=s0-d)
Flash Comics #1 (January 1940), cover art by Sheldon Moldoff
2 comments:
"Why'd I do that? Now I have a dead girl and a bullet hole through my hand."
Hey, there's a guy freaking out on the cover of Action 1!
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