http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress Have a beverage and stay a while, won't you? Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:33:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/08/04/batman-now-i-know-im-home-again/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/08/04/batman-now-i-know-im-home-again/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:31:06 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=4134 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } In this Silver Age story titled “The Batman Nobody Remembered” from World’s Finest #163 (Sept 1963) Batman is piloting the Bat-plane back through a terrible storm and is inexplicably tranported to a parallel Earth (and not Earth 2). Remember, even when there were explanations in Silver Age stories they rarely made sense. On this familiar [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/08/04/batman-now-i-know-im-home-again/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/04/30/anton-previn/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/04/30/anton-previn/#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 01:20:13 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=3785 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } While at work Barry Allen receives a phone call from top international women’s designer Anton Previn who’s come to Central City with his latest portfolio. Barry recounts meeting Previn five years before on a trip to Paris and “[they] became fast friends”. Barry stores Previn’s portfolio in a police safe until his show the following [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/04/30/anton-previn/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/03/25/jimmy-olsens-jungle-bride/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/03/25/jimmy-olsens-jungle-bride/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:28:42 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=3680 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Ginger Jimmy. Intrepid Daily Planet photographer and wannabe reporter. Superman’s pal. Back in the Silver Age, Jimmy was the perfect fodder for wacky adventures and farce filled fests no matter if he transformed into a werewolf, Elasti-Lad, or dolled himself up as a woman. Now we all know just because Jimmy looked good in a [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/03/25/jimmy-olsens-jungle-bride/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/01/10/bat-lash-the-dandy-cowboy/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/01/10/bat-lash-the-dandy-cowboy/#comments Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:08:45 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=3397 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } A small stack of comics mostly from the Silver Age that I picked up here and there throughout last year sits on the floor next to my bed. Many of them are worn reader copies, not too precious to take out of their bags to enjoy. Among them is a copy of Showcase #76 which [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/01/10/bat-lash-the-dandy-cowboy/feed/ 1 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/10/18/a-date-with/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/10/18/a-date-with/#comments Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:17:35 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=3093 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Running from late 1947 to late 1960, A Date With Judy is a comic that was intended to appeal to young girls. I’d never see an issue before until recently when I came across A Date With Judy #66 (Sept. 1958) along with several romance comics from the same period. The three short stories center [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/10/18/a-date-with/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/10/01/silver-age-bigot/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/10/01/silver-age-bigot/#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:58:02 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=3032 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Nightmaster was created by Denny O’Neil, Jerry Grandenetti, and Berni Wrightson created Nightmaster in 1969, taking rock musician Jim Rook and putting him into the role of a confused hero in a sword and sorcery setting in the land of Myrra for Showcase #82 – 84. Despite the stories and art exciting my 11 year [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/10/01/silver-age-bigot/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/08/20/someone-somewhere/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/08/20/someone-somewhere/#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:51:53 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=2860 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Lucy, Mary Lou, and Grace are the bestest BFFs ever! As little girls they tested their newly found fashion sense, creating stunning ensembles from their mothers’ June Cleaver style wardrobes. Pajama parties where the girls dissected their latest dates with different boys were a regular event, except Grace made it clear she was fixated on [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/08/20/someone-somewhere/feed/ 2 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/06/02/speedys-not-so-fabulous-life/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/06/02/speedys-not-so-fabulous-life/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:38:22 +0000 Joe http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=2433 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Roy Harper’s has had some hard knocks in life for a four color comics character. Recently targeted by Prometheus, to prove both his bad assery and that his penis isn’t tiny, Harper’s right arm was literally mangled and amuputated and daughter Lian was killed by writer James Robinson as an excuse for transformative catalyst through [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/06/02/speedys-not-so-fabulous-life/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/01/09/bob-carter-the-lumberjacks-boy-toy/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/01/09/bob-carter-the-lumberjacks-boy-toy/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:46:24 +0000 Joe http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=1932 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } “The Mystery Supergirl” by Otto Binder and Jim Mooney (Action #268 1960) is a good example of the kinds of adventures the Maid of Might had during the 1960s. The big angle at the time was Superman had ordered his younger cousin to keep her super powers a secret in case he needed rescuing from [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/01/09/bob-carter-the-lumberjacks-boy-toy/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/11/21/anonymous-fashion-guys/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/11/21/anonymous-fashion-guys/#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:48:07 +0000 Joe http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=1677 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } This pair of men appear for all of six panels in the truly strange and fun story in Inferior Five #8 written by E. Nelson Bridwell and published in the spring of 1968. The plot in a nutshell is the streets of Megalopolis are threatened by an ever rising pile of junk. Among the disrupted [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/11/21/anonymous-fashion-guys/feed/ 0