Free Superman Cartoons!

Celebrate Miracle Monday by watching some of the best super-hero cartoons ever, the Max Fleischer Superman cartoons from the early 1940s. They're free on archive.org!

Miracle Monday!

Shortly before four in the afternoon on the third Monday in the month of May, the people of the city of Metropolis learned the meaning of joy. They had no explanation for this feeling, and there were gaps in their knowledge of what had gone on in their lives so far that day. It was as though they were all waking up, or at least opening their eyes, for the first time in an awfully long time. The first thing many of them saw was the red-and-blue figure of Superman drawing a line across their sky, and he became the symbol of their joy. It felt like a miracle, though none could say why.

Today is the third Monday in May, known to all true blue Superman fans as Miracle Monday. It comes from the novel Miracle Monday by Elliot S! Maggin, from which the above passage is taken. I won't spoil it for you, you'll just have to read it for yourself.

Elliot S! Maggin's two Superman novels, Last Son of Krypton & Miracle Monday, are two of the best straightforward super-hero prose novels ever written. The novels came out in conjunction with the first two Superman movies back in the late 70s/early 80s, but they are not adaptations of the movies. Instead, Maggin told sweeping original stories of the pre-Crisis Superman. Probably the best part of the novels is Maggin's Lex Luthor, one of the only characterizations of the pre-Crisis bad guy that ever provided motivations that made sense to me.

The novels are long out of print, but you can read them both online at Superman Through the Ages.

New Library Comics: Week of May 8, 2006

Here are the comics we got in for our library collection last week:


Baker, Kyle. Kyle Baker, cartoonist. Volume two, Now with more Bakers. /New York : Kyle Baker Publishing, c2005.

Moore, Alan, 1953- Absolute Watchmen /New York : DC Comics, c2005.

O'Barr, J. The Crow /New York : Pocket Books, 2002, c1995.

Ren shi Taiwan li shi = A history of Taiwan in comics /Taibai shi : Xin zi ran zhu yi gu fen you xian gong si, 2004. v. 1-10.

Suzuki, Koji, 1957- The ring 0 : birthday /Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Manga, 2005, c2000.

FCBM2 Day 15

It's day Fifteen of the second annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Today's selected entry comes from Nevin Steindam. Nevin's five comics are:

1. Desolation Jones
2. The Goon
3. She-Hulk
4. Seven Soldiers
5. Skyscrapers of the Midwest

For his free comic, I'm sending Nevin Scud: The Disposable Assassin #10 by Rob Schrab; I think that the violent humor will appeal to the Goon fan in him.

And like all the selected entries, Michael will be receiving a special Dark Horse promo-priced comic, in this case the Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic/Rebellion Flip Book.

Nevin's comics should be in the mail soon. Enjoy!

There's still time to send in your entry for the YACB Free Comic Book Month; details are here.

Current FCBM Statistics:
53 entries
43 free comics sent so far
16 days remaining

FCBM2 Day 14

It's day Fourteen of the second annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Today's selected entry comes from Michael Podgorski. Michael's five comics are:

1. Amazing Spider-Man
2. The Thing
3. Batman
4. Aquaman
5. Donald Duck

It's Sunday, so Michael would seem to be the perfect candidate to get the comic that was this week's monkey cover: Go-Go Gorilla and the Jungle Crew Summer Fun Special by Mike Hall, Dustin Evans, and David Hedgecock.

And like all the selected entries, Michael will be receiving a special Dark Horse promo-priced comic, in this case the Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic/Rebellion Flip Book.

Michael's comics should be in the mail soon. Enjoy!

There's still time to send in your entry for the YACB Free Comic Book Month; details are here.

Current FCBM Statistics:
52 entries
41 free comics sent so far
17 days remaining

Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover.

Today's cover is Go-Go Gorilla and the Jungle Crew Summer Fun Special by Jack Lawrence. Go-Go Gorilla is of course the leader of the Jungle Crew, the team of super-powered animals that protects Jungle City. Only in comics, my friends!

(Standard disclaimer about gorillas not really being monkeys applies.)

Click on the image for a larger version.


Don't forget, Free Comic Book Month 2 is going on, and there's still plenty of time to enter!

FCBM2 Day 13

It's day Thirteen of the second annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Today's selected entry comes from Ted Houseman. Ted's five comics are:

1. Planetary
2. Hellboy
3. The Ultimates
4. Age of Bronze
5. The Authority

Ted would appear to be a fan of monsters & widescreen comics, so I'm sending him Giant Monster #1-2 by Steve Niles & Nat Jones.

And like all the selected entries, Ted will be receiving a special Dark Horse promo-priced comic, in this case The Goon 25¢ Edition by Eric Powell.

Ted's comics should be in the mail soon. Enjoy!

There's still time to send in your entry for the YACB Free Comic Book Month; details are here.

Current FCBM Statistics:
52 entries
39 free comics sent so far
18 days remaining