Introducing 'I'm The Gun!'
From History of the DC Universe #1; art by George Perez & Karl Kesel There's been a huge balloon-shaped hole in the comics' blogosphere & the 1st several posts on this blog aim to correct that! As far as I know, there hasn't been any extensive bloggage covering the career of World War I American flying ace, Steve Savage - until now. I've been itching to share my love of the DC Universe, and I've decided to start right at the top - or at least way up in the wild blue yonder. 'The Balloon Buster' made not many more than a dozen featured appearances in DC Comics from the mid-60s through the early 80s (and perhaps only 1 appearance of any significance since then), but I've always been fascinated by this character, who had one foot in the Western comics' tradition, and the other in the kind of modern war comics at which DC so excelled in the 1960s. I'm positive that my introduction to the character came in Crisis on Infinite Ea...