Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from the Abnormal Use law blog and Gallivan, White, & Boyd, P.A.! We hope you an eventful and safe New Year’s Eve, and we welcome you now to 2014.

Above, you’ll find the cover of New Adventure Comics #12, published at the very end of 1936 and dedicated to the arrival of the new year: 1937. Wow. That is one old comic book. Check out the summary from Comicvine:

New Comics received a makeover with issue #12, becoming New Adventure Comics, its symbolic cover featuring a fresh faced baby 1937 ushering out Father Time’s past relics. While still stuffed with short humor strips, including, “Hard luck Harry,” New Adventure Comics increasingly emphasised action in far away lands through such features as “Castaway Island” and “The Vikings.” Rounding out issue 12 was another installment of “Federal Men” though readers could have been forgiven for puzzling over its bizzare sci-fi twist. Unapologetic Sci-fi fans Siegel and Shuster had shoehorned in a professor who explained the “future of scientific crime detection.” This framing device gave the two a licence to delve deep into their favourite obsession, telling a tale set in the year 3000 that involved ray guns, rocket ships and star pirates. It also starred an “ace sleuth” named Jor-L (a name later to be re-cycled as that of Superman’s father).

As that summary suggests, there’s an interesting bit of Superman history/trivia in this 76 year old comic book. Superman, of course, would not appear until 1938 in Action Comics #1.

Check out our past New Year’s Days posts (featuring new year themed comic book and album covers) here, here, and here.

In fact, a year ago today, we published a list of our favorite songs about the New Year.  To revisit that post, please see here. (Of course, it features references to U2.).

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