Reading Room ADVENTURE COMICS "These are the Star Men"

This week, a look at some never-reprinted stories from a surprising source...

...beginning with a cautionary tale about taking what's not yours!

The Bronze Age run of DC's Adventure Comics began by moving the long-running Legion of Super-Heroes feature to back-up Action Comics, while Action's back-up Supergirl, was moved to take over Adventure.
When Adventure's page count (along with all DC titles) went up as the line's price increased from 15 to 25 cents in 1971, the book featured a variety of back-ups including Zatanna, classic Supergirl reprints, and inventory sci-fi tales by noted artists.
Here's the first of those never-reprinted tales, from Adventure Comics #420 (1972), written and pencilled by Howard Purcell, an artist/writer whose work on over 600 stories and covers spanned the Golden and Silver Ages, and inked by George Roussos.
Be here tomorrow for another "lost" tale!

Design of the Week: The REAL Wonder Women of World War II!

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!

This week: May is chock-full of holidays.Among them: Mother's Day, Armed Forces Day, and Memorial Day.
How about a gift that would cover ALL three of them at one shot?
Design of the Week offers a unique idea for the female World War II veteran in your life.
Whether she's your mother or grandmother, sister or aunt, wife or ex-wife, we've got a bunch of items that show your respect and love in a kitchy kind of way.
Long and short-sleeve T-shirts, mugs, blank journals, even kitchen magnets, all adorned with a classic 1940s comic cover paying tribute to WWII-era WACs, WAVEs, and MCWRs!
Available on a variety of kollectibles, but only for this week!

Free Comic Book Day 2015

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AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Opens Today!

Avengers...ASSEMBLE

(at the nearest multiplex!)

Check out the official site HERE.

Guess What I'm Wearing to a Screening of AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON...?

It's not an original 1960s shirt, but the now-OOP Graphitti reproduction.

Be interesting to see who identifies the three heads...