Remembering Comic Book Creator Joe Kubert on His Birthday, September 18
Each month at the Splintering we choose a different comic book artist to remember on their birthday.
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Throwback Review: “Airboy” Issues 1-5 (Eclipse Comics, 80s August Special)
Welcome back to 80s August, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of the greatest decade since the baking of the first blackberry cobbler! Today, we’re reviewing the first five-issue story arc of Eclipse Comics’ Airboy, which was a revival of the original Golden Age Airboy series published by Hillman Comics in the 40s and 50s. The first Eclipse Comics issue landed in
Read moreChuck Dixon and It’s Alive! bring “Airboy” back after a 30-year absence
Over the weekend, It’s Alive! launched a crowdfunding campaign for issue number 51 of Airboy, an aviation-themed hero whose origins date back to the Golden Age of comics. Wait? Issue 51? Yes, indeedy. Writer Chuck Dixon wrote a 50-issue run in the 1980s which updated the Airboy character for contemporary audiences. This Indiegogo campaign will fund issue number 51, which
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