Superman, the 1940’s: Lois Lane’s Hats Part 3
Serving dishes? Bottle caps? Little Bo-Peep? What hat will Lois wear next?
Category: Costume History
Superman, the 1940’s: Lois Lane’s Hats Part 2
As we continue to follow Lois’ exploits in millinery, one question comes to mind, or at least to my mind. Does she really get paid well enough to afford all of these hats? I can’t recall the story at present, but it involves designer clothing rip-offs. In it, Lois lays out $150 (close to a …
Superman, the 1930’s-40’s: Lois Lane’s Hats Part 1
Ah, the forties. The War Years (or the New War Years, I suppose, as opposed to the Great War Years, no one as yet anticipating the subsequent wars the United States would be involved in —or involve herself in—one after another). In such changing times, when the nation’s women went to work with a will, …
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Superman Costume Evolution: The Early Years
The Man of Steel’s costume, despite what you might think, has come a long way since Joe Shuster first introduced him to us in Action Comics #1. It actually evolved in a very short time, but evolve it did.
Batman Costume Evolution: the 1940’s
When Bob Kane and Bill Finger presented the Batman to the world (okay, pretty much just the U.S., but eventually…) in the lead story in issue 27 of Detective Comics, Finger had already convinced Kane to give up his original idea for a costumed adventurer to help capitalize on the craze started by Siegal and …