Ali Baba

A creature of the Golden Age's golden imagination, Ali Baba stepped onto the comics scene in 1943, conjured by Jack Alderman for Holyoke's Blue Beetle — sharing those pulpy, action-packed pages with none other than Dan Garret, the Blue Beetle himself. With appearances across both Blue Beetle and Sparkling Stars, this early-forties figure touched two corners of Holyoke's wartime universe before the era moved on. Rare and fleeting, with just four catalog appearances to their name, Ali Baba is exactly the kind of obscure Golden Age gem that makes digging through old Holyoke issues such a rewarding treasure hunt.