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Brave and The Bold: When Superboy Met Robin!

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Originally Published September 2013:   These days, team-ups between heroes happen all the time. Before Marvel made a coherent comics universe a thing, however, they were few and far between. That’s why Superman and Batman team-ups were so anticipated back then. DC then had an idea: Sure, Superman has met Batman and Robin before, but what if Robin, the Boy Wonder, met Superboy and had an adventure? The result was this little gem: When Superboy met Robin! Our story opens in the Smallville of the nebulous past of twenty-or-so years ago, where Superboy is greeted by Pete Groff, owner of Smallville’s largest stadium. Smallville, you see, is a midwestern small town that just happens to have  multiple  stadiums, because why not? Anyway, Groff has a proposal for the Boy of Steel, a science fair! Groff will invite three famous scientists to study Superboy and how he uses his power. Thinking it’ll be great for publicity and therefore helping Smallville, Superboy agrees. ...
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Brave and the Bold: The Three Super-Mesketeers!

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Back in the day, I had a little blog called Epic-Randomness. It was fun, I enjoyed it, and sometimes, it even made people laugh. Well, now it's back! However, this is just a test post, revisiting the last post I made on the original blog.  If you’re familiar with comics at all, using The Brave and the Bold as a title usually equates to team-up stories. This is true, but potentially any retro-comic can be reviewed here, even if the initial focus  is   going to be team-ups. For the inaugural column, I decided to use the World’s Finest team of Superman and Batman… and Robin. So, travel back in time with us to 1956, and then even further back to the 17th century with The Three Super-Musketeers! The story begins innocently enough, at the Gotham City Historians’ Convention. There, Dr. Carter Nichols announces his intent to solve the riddle regarding the identity of the Man in the Iron Mask! For some reason, Clark Kent of the Daily Planet is there t...
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