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Hatch, Match & Dispatch – March 2024
The British comics celebrating an important anniversary in March 2024.
Hatch, Match & Dispatch – June 2023
June is the only British comic to have a whole month named after it, so let's take a look at the comics celebrating an important anniversary in that month!
Rusty Staples’ Oh-So-Lazy Fifth Anniversary Celebration Article!
Happy Birthday to Rusty Staples, your favourite comics blog! Hooray!
Hatch, Match & Dispatch – March 2023
"Ne'er Cast A Clout 'til March is Out" as the old saying doesn't go. I don't know what it means, but it's probably something to do with comics, I expect. (That's my default position when I'm unsure about something: one day, I'll be right.)
Hatch, Match & Dispatch – March 2022
It's an ancient Celtic tradition that every February 26th we take a look at the comics that will be celebrating an important anniversary in the coming month...
Most Popular Posts of 2021!
Looking back on Rusty Staples' most popular posts of 2021!
Richard Donner, 1930-2021
Richard Donner, rest in peace.
Rusty Staples: Year Three
April 15th is the Feast of St. Aples, the patron saint of writing about comics, which is why I chose this date -- exactly three years ago -- to launch my comics blog, which was of course named after St. Aples himself. Happy Birthday to us! Hooray!
Falling for Superman
On 26 September 1938 -- a little over eighty-two years ago as the crow flies -- issue six of Action Comics (cover-dated November of that year) featured the Superman story "Superman's Phony Manager" (full disclosure: that title didn't appear in the original issue and has been applied retroactively). Action Comics was an anthology and Superman … Continue reading Falling for Superman