Dr. K's Halloween Countdown Presents: Happy Halloween!

This brings us to the end of another Halloween Countdown! Thanks to everyone who stopped by, including the new readers to the blog. I'll have some more horror movie reviews and commentary coming up, along with the usual comics stuff and other shenanigans.

Now I have to go and refresh our supply of Halloween candy, as much of it has mysteriously disappeared over the last few days. Perhaps...it was a ghost!

(If it was, the ghost did a pretty good job of selectively removing all the Almond Joys out of the variety assortment bag, and it left all the Milk Duds.)

Have a Happy Halloween!

Dr. K's Halloween Countdown Presents: More Sugar and Spike!

Here's another great Halloween cover from Sheldon Mayer's Sugar and Spike, this one from issue 67:


More Sugar and Spike covers can be found at Cover Browser.

Dr. K's Halloween Countdown Presents: Sugar and Spike!

Sheldon Mayer's classic series Sugar and Spike regularly featured seasonal covers, including one for Halloween nearly every year of its long publication. As the Halloween Countdown progresses, I'll be posting some of my favorites regularly. Here's the one from issue 49:


(Cover scan from Cover Browser.)

When I was a kid, I used to love hitting the houses that handed out money for trick or treat. I remember one year going home several times to get a new mask so that I could hit another time a house giving out baggies full of pennies.

As regular readers of the blog know, my love for Sugar and Spike has caused me to take some extreme measures in order to convince DC Comics that publishing a Showcase Presents volume of Sugar and Spike reprints would be the equivalent of printing money.

Also, check out Sugar and Spike's Twitter feed!

HeroesCon Report, Part 1

At a DC Comics panel today at HeroesCon, Dan DiDio asked if anyone in the audience had a Silver Age comic on them. I then held up the following comic, and Mark Waid was able to identify correctly the issue number from 40 yards out:


In other news, on Friday night at the Westin Hotel bar, I rolled up three deep to DC Editor Jann Jones and asked her for a Sugar and Spike Showcase collection. Chris Sims added to my request the question, "Do you like money?"

When Chris repeated the request at a DC Nation panel the next day, Jann Jones responded, "Aren't you the guys that cornered me in the bar last night?"

Chris has more of our adventures on the ISB, including some experiences that I will never personally speak of in public.

More updates later, including pictures.