J M Wetherington Sr
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Miracle Monday
Monday , 18, May 2020 Books, Comic Books, Special Days Comments Off on Miracle MondayHappy Miracle Monday! Do you know what Miracle Monday is? If you’re a fan of Superman you probably do. But if not, allow me to explain. To begin with, Miracle Monday is the title of a Superman novel written by Elliot S! Maggin (yes, that’s an exclamation point after his middle initial, and I’m not […]
Happy Leap Day and Happy Birthday Superman!
Saturday , 29, February 2020 Comic Books, Special Days Comments Off on Happy Leap Day and Happy Birthday Superman!Leap Day Today is that day that only rolls around every four years; Leap Day. In school we were taught that every year has 365 days…except Leap Year which occurs every four years on February 29th. The reason is that February 29th every four years helps keep our calendars aligned with planet Earth’s rotation around […]
Action Comics #1 – Superman’s 80th Anniversary
Tuesday , 24, April 2018 Comic Books Comments Off on Action Comics #1 – Superman’s 80th AnniversaryOnce I become a time traveler, the first thing I’m going to do (after killing Hitler before his rise to power and stopping Oswald before he assassinates Kennedy, but before I go visit with Einstein in Princeton) is go back to the year 1938. Sometime between April 18th and May 3rd because that’s when Action […]
I’m finally getting around to writing about and sharing photos from my trip to the North Texas Comic Book Show – Day Two. You can read about day one, part one here; and day one, part two here. This will be long as I’m trying to fit it all into one post. The Sunday morning […]
Note: I originally wrote this as a single post, but it turned out to be much too long for a single reading, so I divided it up into 4 parts; 1 for each artist. Part 1 contains my intro to the article and features Jack Kirby. Part 2 features John Byrne. Part 3 features John […]
Mt. Rushmore Of Comic Book Artists – Part 2
Monday , 31, August 2015 Art, Comic Books Comments Off on Mt. Rushmore Of Comic Book Artists – Part 2Note: I originally wrote this as a single post, but it turned out to be much too long for a single reading, so I divided it up into 4 parts; 1 for each artist. Part 1 contains my intro to the article (which you may find helpful if you have not read it yet) and […]
The Mother Goose & Grimm comic strip below appeared in today’s newspapers across the country. I laughed when I first saw it, and then my mind started working, which is seldom a good thing. As a kid, Mighty Mouse was one of the first cartoons I watched on TV. I loved the operatic theme song, […]
My iPhone Wallpaper
Friday , 1, May 2015 Comic Books, Technology Comments Off on My iPhone WallpaperA few weeks ago, one of the members of a Facebook Comic Book Collecting group I’m a member of asked us to post a screen capture of our mobile phone wallpaper. All of those posted, of course, had some tie-in to comic books, comic book movies, characters, etc. Mine, obviously, was this character. What’s your […]
Superman Is, After All, An Extraterrestrial
Tuesday , 24, February 2015 Comic Books, Humor Comments Off on Superman Is, After All, An ExtraterrestrialI don’t know where I got this from, but it makes me laugh every time I see it, because I can just imagine this is how it would be the first time Lois Lane sees Superman’s junk.