#Golden Age Detection

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Crooks of the Waldorf by Horace Smith. London: John Long, 1930. Dust jacket illustrator unknown. The book recounts "the escapades of Joe Smith (no relation to the author), the house detective at the original Waldorf Astoria on 34th Street and Fifth Avenue (now the site of the Empire State Building.)"

Below is an excerpt from the book. It can be read online here, but can't be downloaded as anything other than a JPG.

Top photo: Stuff Nobody Cares About Bottom screenshot: University of Michigan

[selinakylle]

BatCat guide Part I

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Hey, guys! So I saw this guide on Twitter and thought it would be interesting to post it here as a record!

Credits: This guide was created by @/batcatfiles account and updated by @/catbat1940

Part II tomorrow!!

[oakendesk]

Line-Up Detective Apr 1953

Howell Dodd

[rhymeswithfart]

Click for full view, more huevember and random drawings

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[oldtvandcomics]

Jill Trent - One of the best discoveries this year

... I probably should stop saying that. There were A LOT of good stories I had the pleasure to find this year. But even so, Jill Trent the Science Sleuth is something special.

(Title image for the Jill Trent story in Wonder Comics #13)

Long story short, I am playing around a little digging in old comic books for some Public Domain ladies, and found Jill Trent on the Public Domain Wiki. I have read every single one of her stories so far, and she is:

A detective

Also a mad scientist who keeps inventing cool gadgets and immediately losing said gadgets, so that she can spend the rest of the story recovering them

VERY easy to read as a lesbian, to the point where... You know, if it quacks like a duck.

Generally cool, gets into multiple fistfights with bad guys every issue

As I said, IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. You can get her comics for free on the Internet and not worry about a thing.

From just after the War, around 1947, 1948.

Jill is the blonde woman in the picture. The other one is her partner, Daisy Smythe. This being the Golden Age of comic books, the stories don't go as deeply into their personalities as a modern reader would hope (read: not at all. They do science and chase criminals, That's it), but they are very close. They clearly live together, and are shown to share a bed on two separate occasions.

I love these two. I desperately want more of them. I have read every comic story by now, and there are exactly zero fanfictions on AO3...

(There does seem to have been a project around a decade (?) ago, to publish reimagined stories with the two of them. But to me, setting is part of the charm. If you change the race of the characters and put them into space, that kind of defeats the purpose.)

Jill Trent appeared in the following comic books:

Fighting Yank #6, 9

Wonder Comics #8-20

All of which are in the Public Domain, and can be read LEGALLY on Comic Book Plus.

[superman-the-secret-third-thing]

Golden Age Superman Trolling Compilation :)

This is kinda the type of humor I hope from the movie:

It doesn't matter if it's actually funny, so much as Clark thinks he's funny.

Sources: Uhhh. Superman & Action Comics, 1948 era? There's so many...

[chernobog13]

Stardust had more wacky crime fighting devices than the entire 1966 Batman television series.

[magnetothemagnificent]

The gender envy I get from Golden Age boy sidekicks......

[batdadtruther]

once upon a time it was Bruce who was like “just one more hit!” and it was Dick who had to be “we have to go!!”

— Detective Comics #44 | 1940

[ghostriderslade]

Iconic Artists and Incredible Heroes #36.

A celebration of the amazing comic book artists who brought us indelible images that best capture the spirit and essence of the superhero or superheroine.

Issue #36 - Bill Finger / Golden Age Batman.

[zombirdie]

if this panel was blank……….. emphasis on forces, thrusts, and finish…

[artphotographyofmen]

Green Lantern by Craig Hamilton

[oakendesk]

Guilty Detective Story Magazine Sep 1958

Wil Hulsey

[tiabwwtws-art]

Iterator logs quotes I think are delivered well + a low effort meme

[evilhorse]

And Robin…I see your fist hasn’t lost its old punch, my boy!

(Detective Comics #64)

[pulpsandcomics2]

Detective Comics #31 September 1939