... Comics series Animal studies C. C. Beck Comic books and autobiography Otto Binder Golden Age comics Even a talking tiger gets writer’s block sometimes. For Mr. Tawny, Billy Batson’s good friend, it happened at the worst possible moment, just as Captain Marvel Adventures...

... theory Golden Age comics In a 1974 “capsule autobiography,” C. C. Beck—the illustrator, cartoonist, comic book artist, writer, musician, and critic—claimed that he was neither “an editor” nor “an idea man”(Beck qtd. in Hamilton). Just a few years before his death in 1989, however, he wrote to his...