The late 80's and early 90's were littered with independent comics publishers that sprung up almost literally overnight, published o...

So here it is, 11:30 p.m., and I've just realized that it's Wednesday and I've got no Big Audio Wednesday update. Chalk it up to...

Just as an addendum to yesterday's Vault entry, you know when Stan says this? Here are the kinds of new titles Marvel was coming out wit...

So yeah, I guess I'm going to ride this horse till the wheels fall off or something. Last week featured the Marvel Bullpen guest-starrin...

So here they are, the final six episodes of the Atom Man storyline from 1945. One thing that struck me when listening to the story the first...

Posting this a day late. Sorry. So one of the very few blogs I read regularly anymore is snell's " Slay, Monstrobot of the Deep ,...

Five years after this serial aired on radio, Columbia produced its second movie serial starring Kirk Alyn as Superman, titled "Atom Man...

This is actually a bit recent for the Vault. Most of the comics I cover are from the previous century, 60's through 90's. But since ...

It may not seem very remarkable today, but the continuity in these radio serials was completely unknown to comics readers of the time. I hav...

Hot on the heels of last week's translation of real-life Playboy centerfold Susie Owens into the superhero Flaxen, I give you Playboy co...

Extra-bonus week in the continuing Superman vs. Atom Man saga. I've added two extra episodes this week, so that we end on a Friday. It...

BTW and apropos of nothing, I know I've been remiss in not mentioning the Lost finale. If you neither know nor care about Lost , you ca...

The North Koreans have tested a second nuclear device , three years after that last bizarre test. This one blowed up real good. The U.S. re...

In the 70's, Marvel came out with a superhero book titled The Human Fly , billed as "The Wildest Super-Hero Ever--Because He's ...

Continuing the epic story of Superman's confrontation with the Atom Man from October 1945. If the Atom Man's voice sounds familiar, ...

Came back from my Monday night game to discover that both Dollhouse and Chuck have been renewed for next season. So I'm pretty pumped...

So you read yesterday's description of that Blackhawk story from 1966 and you're thinking, "Sure, Fraze, it's a silly story...

In last week's discussion of Howard Chaykin's controversial reboot of Blackhawk , I said that I'd talk more about Blackhawk'...

Continuing the long "Superman vs. Atom Man" storyline. I should probably adjust the number of episodes so that I can present an ac...

Season one (and possibly only) of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse is now over, and I have to say, damn! By which I mean the good kind of damn, ...