Checkered Past

This week! Metamorpho 5 Cover date March/April 1966 Cover Price 12 cents Cover Artist: Joe Orlando & Charles Paris Edited by George Kashdan Featuring “Will the Real Metamorpho Please Stand Up!” Writer Bob Haney, Artist Joe Orlando & Charles Paris AND! All-American Men of War 114 Cover date March/April 1966 Cover Price 12 cents Cover Artist: Joe Kubert Edited by Robert Kanigher Featuring “The Ace Who Died Twice” starring Steve Savage, Balloon Buster Performed for you by the Our All-American Fighting Men of War at War Players Sound effects courtesy of http://www.freesfx.co.uk

Detective Comics 348 Cover date February 1966 Cover Price 12 cents Cover Artist: Joe Kubert and Ira Schnapp Edited by Julius Schwartz “Birdmaster of Bedlam!” Writer Robert Kanigher, Artist Sheldon Moldoff and Joe Giella in which Batman and his Buddy battle a be-turbaned birdbrain! When a plane carrying Miss USA crash lands after it is attacked by wild birds (killing her in the process), Batman and Robin soon become aware of a sinister plot by a criminal known as the Birdmaster who plans to hold the world ransom by sending out armies of trained birds to attack any planes in the sky. Traveling to the Birdmaster's castle base, the dynamic duo battle the Birdmaster and his minions, forcing the Birdmaster to flee. In a stroke of irony, Birdmaster escapes in a plane that's attacked by his own birds, forcing a crash land and causing the criminal's death. “My Wife, the Witch!” Writer Gardner Fox, artist Carmine Infantino & Sid Greene in which the stretchable sleuth and his sexy sidekick sidle up to Salem

  This week! Our Fighting Forces 98 Cover date February 1966 Cover Price 12 cents Cover Artist: Irv Novick Edited by Robert Kanigher “Death Wore a Grin” Writer Robert Kanigher, Artist Irv Novick in which the Fightin’ Devil Dog puts a strangulatin’ shutdown on a sinewy Sumo fighter “Breakthrough in Reverse” art by Jack Abel In which some soldiers fight – um, Russians, I guess? – to try and get a 3-day leave in Tokyo AND! Girls’ Love Stories 117 Cover date February 1966 Cover Price 12 cents Cover Artist: Tony Abruzzo Edited by Jack Miller Featuring “Twice Lost” Performed for you by the Girls’ Young Romance True Love Story Players Sound effects courtesy of http://www.freesfx.co.uk

Poor Hate-Face. And Leeta 87. Oh, and Triplicate Girl.

Misogyny reigns this week as we explore Brave and Bold #64 and Metal Men #18. Sorry, women, for everything ever! 

Are ya ready? Are ya with it? This week, Dr. Bobb and Dr. Husband discuss the psychological traume of Superman, and the dickishness of Superboy, from Action Comics #333!