With the Meyers family at its heart, 2026 marks 10 years of business for The Comic Signal. The business also has provided comic resources to various organizations across West Michigan.

These villains might have been DC's first, but they've proven they can stick around for the long haul with incomparable legacies.

Superman villain Lex Luthor was created by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, and first appeared in the pages of Action Comics #23 (April 1940), which went on sale on 23rd February 1940. The issue was ...

One hundred twelve years ago today, one of the last singing cowboys, who also wrote songs recorded by legendary artists, was ...

Sensation Comics #38, published in December 1944, marks the final appearance of the Gay Ghost in American Comics “Golden Age”. The creation of writer Gardner Fox and artist Howard Purcell, he would ...

Batman has risen and fallen and risen again many times since his debut in Detective Comics #27 in May of 1939. Batman exists in a grim reality and a big part of that reality is the physical toll on ...

Bruce Wayne/Batman is one of the first comic book superheroes, having debuted in Detective Comics in 1939. Less than a year later, he was joined by the “sensational character find of 1940” – Robin, ...

“Comic books blamed in hanging of boy,” read a front-page headline in the Lexington Herald in 1947 about a 12-year-old near Pittsburgh who hung himself with clothesline — “probably” because he saw ...

Children at St. Rita’s Parochial School in Louisville burned more than 300 comic books in February 1954 under the watchful eye of Sister Clarice, a seventh grade teacher. The young book burners were ...

Readers old enough to remember 1940s comics will know that Donald (and I refer to Disney’s Duck rather than Melania’s Trump) had a very rich rello called Uncle Scrooge McDuck, who had so much money he ...