Golden Magazine

The Golden Magazine was published for kids by Western, the Gold Key Comics people.They pumped out tons of kids ephemera during the baby boomer years--puzzles, comics, coloring books, BIg Little Books, etc.
This February 1968 issue has a great cover by George Wilson. Among the assortment of stories, articles, and activities was this color by number treat. Print it out and be 10 again.

OUCH! You almost poked my eye out!!

Movie Life, Aug 1954

Edward Scissorhand's 2nd cousin

from Modern Mechanix, July 1937

Another George Wilson Twilght Zone cover

Twilight Zone # 31  (1969)

Unusual version of Flash Gordon

This Wonder Book from 1956 depicts Flash as a pith-helmeted wild kingdom animal-napper with a jet powered helicopter. I don't know the story behind this odd role--perhaps the project was done with a different lead and they added Flash for, well, flash? It's not like he's identifiable a Flash Gordon. At any rate, this was MY first exposure to FG, and I was confused by the Universe Conquering hero I expereinced later.

TV comicbook tie-ins of the 50s & 60s PART 4

A friend of mine, who is obviously not a comicbook geek, noted after seening a post on this site that he didn't realise that so many TV shows had comicbooks issued for them. He's a decade younger than me, so he has NO IDEA how many TV tie ins there were, mostly done by Western Publishing. One of the nicest aspects of the TV comic versions were the color photo covers. Almost all TV shows before 1966 were broadcast in monochrome. These color photos added to the allure of the comic product. Since my friend is a big fan of retro-tv, I hope he'll enjoy seeing some of these. And  I hope other fans do too.