in Archives, Comics/Cartoons | August 5th, 2026 Leave a Comment

For gen­er­a­tions of kids in the twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry, few plea­sures were as intox­i­cat­ing as a trip to the com­ic-book shop with the week’s allowance fresh in hand. Those of us who grew up in the nineties had any num­ber of high-pro­duc­tion-val­ue paper super­hero spec­ta­cles from major pub­lish­ers on which to blow our mon­ey. Per­son­al­ly, I pre­ferred the greater val­ue of Carl Barks’ old Uncle Scrooge and Don­ald Duck sto­ries then being reprint­ed. But noth­ing offered quite so much val­ue as the card­board box­es, kept below the main shelves, filled as they were with pre­vi­ous­ly owned com­ic books from the fifties, six­ties, sev­en­ties, and eight­ies. As I recall, a cou­ple of dol­lars could get you a whole after­noon’s read­ing mate­r­i­al.

Now you don’t even need the cou­ple of dol­lars. Comicbooks.com has opened an online read­ing room stocked with more than 20,000 dig­i­tized and restored gold­en-age comics, with sev­er­al hun­dred more issues added every day. Though you may not find Don­ald Duck there, you will find oth­er “fun­ny ani­mals” — as enthu­si­asts call them — like Dizzy Duck, Lucky Duck, Super Duck Comics, and Won­der Duck in Adven­ture at the Rodeo of the Fear­less Quack­er.