Billing itself as “the World’s Greatest Blogazine,” DIAL B FOR BLOG ran for several years, each week offering a new “issue” of generally meticulously researched comics history, reviews, photoshop covers and trivia. Although the pseudonymous Robby Reed closed it down some months back now, the archives remain thankfully online and are well-worth digging through to liven up any dull or rainy day. Here are a few I’d start with.

One of the best and most important pieces ever run at DIAL B was this one on “The Haunting of Bob Kane,” an expose as to just how little BATMAN’s credited creator Kane had to do with BATMAN. Ghosts, swipes and photo evidence abound.

http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/391/

A nice companion piece to that one is “The Secret Origins of the Batman,” a multi-part series that blows the lid off the legends and presents for the first time the real story (or as real as we’ll probably ever know it) of where the Darkknight Detective came from.

http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/389/?

This entry presented some little seen Jack Kirby rarities including late-in-life- versions of ACG’ sixties superheroes MAGICMAN and NEMESIS.

http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/95/

SWING WITH SCOOTER was a DC humor title of the sixties. That should be about all there is to that story but Robby found an amzing back story and it starts here:

http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/328/

Perennial pulp and comics hero the SHADOW is given Robby’s heavily illustrated “Secret Origins” treatment here:

http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/112/