KC’s Westfield Columns (2013)
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December 2013: Marvel comics KC enjoys reading
Peanuts collections for Christmas
Tenzil Kem, Matter-Eater Lad of the Legion of Super-Heroes
Comics coming in February 2014
November 2013: 50th Anniversaries — Doctor Who, the Beatles, JFK’s assassination, and a whole bunch of comic books.
The Silver Age Teen Titans Archives Volume 2 as a Nick Cardy tribute
Comics coming in January 2014
October 2013: Afterlife With Archie #1
A look back at The Adventures of Bob Hope, including its monster teachers and Super-Hip, a bizarre attempt to capture kids’ trends of the 1960s
Comics coming in December 2013
September 2013: A look back at the Flash’s Rogues Gallery
Comics coming in November 2013
August 2013: KC plans to teach a comics history course
KC remembers Joe Kubert on the occasion of the release of Comic Book Creator #2
Comics coming in October 2013: Part One and Part Two
July 2013: The origin of Archie’s “Big Moose” Mason: Part One and Part Two
Comics coming in September 2013
June 2013: A look back at Big Apple Comix, an early underground published by Flo Steinberg
Comics coming in August 2013
May 2013: The cancellation of The Legion of Super-Heroes and Marvel’s first original graphic novel
A look back at the comic industry 20 years ago — the Death of Superman, Vertigo’s launch, Robin and Catwoman getting their own series, hologram covers, the first Hellboy appearance, much more
Comics coming in July 2013
April 2013: Good Batman comics and why can’t DC movies be as good as Marvel’s?
Comics coming in June 2013: Part One and Part Two
March 2013: KC reviews several Marvel Now! titles
Life With Archie #21, from 1963, features Archie getting trapped in TV land
Comics coming in May 2013
February 2013: What do you miss about older comics, and what do you like about today’s books?
A brief history of the DC Comics Archives
Comics coming in April 2013
January 2013: Don’t read comics out of habit
Comics coming in March 2013