Today in Comics History, Mardi Gras: That's the Knight That the Lights Went Out in NOLA

Let's celebrate Mardi Gras with the least likely character ever to wind up in New Orleans during this bacchanalian festival: the true man out of time, Captain America The Shining Knight! He's really only there for the Dixieland jazz.


from "Mystery of the Clowning Criminals" in Leading Comics #2 (DC/World's Best Comics, Spring 1942), script by Mort Weisinger (?), pencils and inks by Creig Flessel

Today in Comics History, February 15: I'd eat the rich, but I don't like kale

from "King Kale" in Leading Comics #2 (DC/World's Best, Spring 1942); script, pencils, inks, and letters by Henry Boltinoff

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 253: Alphabet Antics House Ads Week, Day 3

DC Comics alphabet house ads
I: from Superman #41 (July 1946)
J: from Detective Comics #114 (August 1946)
K: from Superman #42 (September 1946)
L: from Adventure Comics #109 (October 1946)

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 184: Where's Flop?

House ad for Leading Comics #24 (April-May 1947); printed in World's Finest Comics #27 (March-April 1947)
Comic cover art: pencils and inks by Otto Feuer (?)
Hey, that's a pretty impressive all-star line-up of anthropomorphinals, but where's Flop? Where, oh where, is Flop?

Oh, he's right here!:


Cover of Flippity & Flop #4 (June-July 1952), pencils and inks by Jim Davis (no, not that one)