The American Bystander #1 SDCC 2024 John Byrne discovered superheroes through

John Byrne discovered superheroes through The Adventures of Superman on television

including an 8-page full color gallery

You can read it as a puzzle-box of art-philosophical ideas

the Sub-Mariner and the Silver Surfer

Our author tells why mountains aren’t climbed – at least by him

The American Bystander #1 SDCC 2024 John Byrne discovered superheroes throughIn October 2015, a bunch of genial weirdos unveiled The American Bystander, the first new national humor magazine in 30 years. We wanted to create a place for print humor in the 21st Century; in a dumbness forward era, we wanted to present if not an antidote, at least an alternative. What the world needs now is therapy on a species wide scale but until then, there's The American Bystander. The current state of publishing has left a lot of wonderful