Category Archives: GLIMPSES INTO THE PAST

COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (15 December 2025)

Posted on December 15, 2025 by I.M. Baytor

Your Manhunter reminder that comics can be awesome: Detective Comics #440

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (20 October 2025)

Posted on October 20, 2025 by I.M. Baytor

Because it’s been a while since Gotham Calling has spotlighted old-school romance comic book covers…

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FILM POSTERS CAN BE AWESOME (28 July 2025)

Posted on July 28, 2025 by I.M. Baytor

Wrapping up this month of film poster art, let’s celebrate the power of enticing images, titles, and taglines with a trio of examples from the 1970s which have always stuck with me, even though I never got around to watch … Continue reading →

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FILM POSTERS CAN BE AWESOME (14 July 2025)

Posted on July 14, 2025 by I.M. Baytor

I have great fascination for the wave of 1970s’ films made for, with, and often by African Americans, typically known as Blaxploitation. Even if a lot of these movies can be described as grindhouse schlock, they capture the gritty vibe … Continue reading →

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FILM POSTERS CAN BE AWESOME (7 July 2025)

Posted on July 7, 2025 by I.M. Baytor

Just to shake things up for a bit, July will be a month of reminders that film posters can also be awesome!

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (19 May 2025)

Posted on May 19, 2025 by I.M. Baytor

For this Monday’s reminder that comics can be awesome, here as tribute to Sheena the Jungle Queen’s covers from the 1940s:

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (5 May 2025)

Posted on May 5, 2025 by I.M. Baytor

Gotham Calling is going back to comic book covers for a month… Let’s start with a trio of Secret Hearts issues from the 1950s and 1960s whose design includes both some neat mise-en-scène and even neater clothing:

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (3 March 2025)

Posted on March 3, 2025 by I.M. Baytor

This time around, to mark Will Eisner Week, our reminder that comics can be awesome spotlights a trio of stylish title pages from Eisner’s groundbreaking creation, The Spirit (not necessarily drawn by Eisner himself, but all of them following his … Continue reading →

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (17 February 2025)

Posted on February 17, 2025 by I.M. Baytor

The first Lucky Luke sequence that blew my mind, back when I was an impressionable young child: Lucky Luke versus Pat Poker

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (10 February 2025)

Posted on February 10, 2025 by I.M. Baytor

The type of sequence that made me fall hopelessly in love with Marvel’s black-and-white magazines from the 1970s: The Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian #7

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