Welcome. This site owes its beginnings in part to the desire to write stories with the characters in the public domain from the golden-age of comics. As there were several sites reprinting such comics online, it became increasingly difficult to keep track, so for my own amusement, I started a list of heroes listing powers, when and where they first appeared etc., drawing from many sources both online and various books such as Steranko's 2 volume set and Jeff Rovin's Superhero encyclopedia. Wasn't long before I realized I had a resource far beyond anything elsewhere. I toyed with the idea of trying to learn how to do web pages. Then Jess Nevins launched his golden-age superheroes site. When he expressed no interest in doing a companion one with the villains, I decided to fill that void.

Since then, the site has expanded far beyond the original goal to concentrate on just the public domain characters. I expanded my scope to include both heroes and villains for MLJ (Archie) and Fawcett as I found excellent resources with comics from there. When the writer of TERRA OBSCURA was looking for a Princess Pantha story, I scanned and posted one here. Now there are two Pantha stories on site and a fledgeling attempt at giving a reprint home for one of my favorite characters, the Fighting Yank. Another friend was looking for a place to store some of his commissions of members of the Invaders trumping the JSA, so you'll see a few of those here.

As the site grew in scope, maintaining it also grew complicated. I'm hoping this new design will prove easier in the long run to highlight changes. One of the biggest changes is no longer will you have to go through the various pages to see the updates. Instead I will have one page listing new heroes and villain profiles. As time passes, they will be deleted from that spot and moved to the respective pages they permanently belong.

Read, and enjoy.
For additions, corrections, questions, email me! cash_gorman@yahoo.com

 

MY PAGES
Cash Gorman Home

The Encyclopedias:
New Profiles
Golden-Age Villains pages
Golden-Age Heroes pages
Fawcett
MLJ
Odds & Ends

COMICS ONLINE!
Fighting Yank Archives
Princess Pantha
Liberty Legion vs JSA
Various Villain panels
Advertising Heroes
Fiction

My comics & pulps blog:
Hero-goggles

OTHER SITES
A site dedicated to the Marvel Family, has entries and images to several of the later villains:
http://www.marvelfamily.com/WhosWho/

Golden Age MLJ/Archie Comics:
http://www.goldcomics.com/forum/

Mikel Midnight's Golden Age Directory:
http://blaklion.best.vwh.net/comics.html

Jess Nevins' wonderful site:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7160/

Comic Fanzine MZS Apa:
www.mzsapa.com

Golden/Silver Age Message board:
http://www.comicboards.com/gsmb/

Wonderful site on characters and history of comic books, comic strips and animation:
www.toonopedia.com

A great link with many entries on various characters and stories from the golden age of comics: http://members.aol.com/MG4273/comics.htm

A site on the history of comics, only it's in German: http://www.geschichte-der-comics.de/

Major Reprinter of golden-age comics, AC Comics: http://www.accomics.com/

Major Reprinter and seller of Pulps:: www.adventurehouse.com

 Music Links:
www.claireholley.com
http://www.duckonbike.com/liveradio.asp
http://christinekane.com/

For additions, corrections, questions, email me! cash_gorman@yahoo.com

 

Hero-Goggles My thoughts on the Hellboy movie as well as looking at a defenestration-free Defenders comic despite the promise to the contrary of last month's next issue blurb as well as several other comics that I picked up this week.

07-11-08

Hero-Goggles Everything's coming up Phantom! Back from India, I talk a little bit about the Phantom and a whole bunch of books I've read since I've gotten back

NEW PROFILES A few new ones. The evil Dr. Plasma, the tragic Lydia Hampton, the cunning Karlak and a few others. Enjoy.

07-04-8

NEW PROFILES A few new ones. Big Bertha, Black Fury, the Crimson Conqueror, the Gun Ghost (left), Jumbo, Plus a few updates on the Heroes pages as well.

06-04-8
NEW PROFILES Dr. Amato, Dr. Diabole, Kilgor, Mechomen, Maurice, Monster of Madness among others. Plus a few updates on the Heroes pages as well as at Hero-Goggles where I provide a few links to some golden-age tales and talk about some recent comics and a really old strip.

Hero-Goggles: HOT GIRL IN THE COMIC SHOP: A few links to places I found of interest in the last few days such as a site with a whole bunch of Old Time Radio shows of radio's premier air ace Captain Midnight!

Updated 04-15-08

Hero-Goggles: THE CRIMSON MASK: A recent HIGH ADVENTURE issue reprints two adventures of this little known pulp hero.So, just who is the Crimson Mask and how does he stack up against other pulp heroes?

Updated 03-28-08

Hero-Goggles: RIP Dave Stevens: We bid a sad farewell to a gentleman and one of those creators that helped keep my love of golden-age stuff alive.

America's Best Comics #14, 1945

The Case of the Extra Nazi Prisoner: An extra Nazi prisoner of war leads to a mass escape and death for hundreds if the Fighting Yank fails.

Scans from Bill Nolan's old Prescription for Excitement site.

updated 02-23-08

 

NEW! Golden-age Heroes Preview! This has been what's been absorbing much of my time last few weeks (in addition to a car accident and other personal adjustments). I'm starting a section devoted to the Mysterymen and women of the golden-age of comics, with micros by Copperage. A little slow going as it means re-visiting and updating old notes. I'm about halfway through the C's (all those Captains, oh boy), but there's a little something on almost all of the pages. As this will be a continual work in progress for some time, there won't be any notices here on updates, there'll just be too many of them. So, you're on your own to keep checking back! Least til it's more or less finished.

updated 02-01-08

Hero-Goggles: Secret Secret Origin of Superman? Cash Gorman weighs in on Chris Knowles' theory that Action Comics #1 is based on a renaissance painting of Heracles and where superheroes got their costumes. Also a couple of links to read more about Fletcher Hanks and AC's upcoming Green Lama mini-series.

updated 12-03-07

Hero-Goggles: Secret Secret Origin of Batman: Think you know everything about the origins of Batman? Here's a bit of history of the character and some of the predecessors that lead up to him and other links along the evolutionary chain to comic book superheroes.

updated 11-30-07
 

 

 

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