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...from becoming homeless . This not only makes you feel good but also makes you wonder how many more copies of Action #1 are out there, wai...

These letters about (and one by) Jerry Siegel are from The (Comic) Buyer's Guide #109, 12/19/75.

Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman has been nominated for the 2011 Garden State Children's Book Awards in the non-fiction categor...

A short biographical sketch of Bill Finger appears in Green Lantern #1 (1941). In it, Bill is referred to as an “only son.” This colored m...

In researching Bill Finger, uncredited co-creator and original writer of Batman, I found a lot of Fingers . Only one Finger gave me the fing...

This is the sixth installment of some of the zaniest search terms that have sucked people to this blog: things children don’t want [MTN: I w...

In researching Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman , I mailed a letter to a person whose name I didn't know. All I did know is that ...

Here's a simple way to determine the quality of an elementary school: pay attention to what's on the walls in the halls. I usually d...

I wrote a book about Superman. I’ve got another in the works about Batman. But I’m not only about superheroes—or even good guys in general. ...

The title of this post is the title of a recently announced Scholastic global initiative to emphasize to children the importance of readin...

I’ve found enough Fingers to make a hand—halfway through a second, actually. When I began researching Bill Finger, uncredited co-creator of ...

On 5/22/10, a letter came from DC Comics. It was the first piece of mail I’d received from the company since Boys of Steel: The Creators of ...

Part 1 and part 2 . I was in New York City standing in a former apartment of Bill Finger’s. The current resident had told me that the apa...

Part 1 . I had just been told that John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, used to live in the apartment that Bill Finger used ...

In gathering images for the illustrator of my upcoming book on Bill Finger, uncredited co-creator and original writer of Batman, I have gon...

I first subscribed to Entertainment Weekly soon after its 1990 launch and have subscribed continuously since. In those twenty years, the ...

Versatile author Tanya Lee Stone (whose honors include the 2010 Sibert for Almost Astronauts ) blogged a ominous question: Will the Internet...

Marc Aronson at the School Library Journal blog Nonfiction Matters kindly posted a guest entry from me . An excerpt: Once upon a genera...

An accomplished animator who has recently shopped around a picture book asked me, “What are your feelings on the [publishing] industry? Do y...

Part 1 . The scarcity of photos of Bill Finger, uncredited co-creator and original writer of Batman, is even more bewildering when I compar...

One of my biggest sub-goals in writing a picture book about Bill Finger, the uncredited co-creator and original writer of Batman, was to fin...

This weekend was the 32nd annual Superman Celebration in Metropolis, Illinois. I didn't go but I did find this 2/3/79 articlette in the ...

A wonderful site called Embracing the Child kindly ran a five-question interview with me. And with many others worth exploring...

In anticipation of a talk about Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman I will be giving on 6/17/10 at the Jewish Community Center in Stamf...

Author Charles Panati has published a series of sharply written “origin” reference books, including the following: Browser’s Book of Beginni...