To Protect and Serve When Science Goes Bad
What if the SF movies of the 1950s had been documentaries? Realistic portrayals of an America where mad science was part of everyday life, and a federal agency worked to …
Author: frasersherman
Earth-Two’s comic book industry after World War II
Earth-Two’s Golden Age of comics probably looked a lot like ours, as I argued in the first part of this series. The Silver Age? Not so much. However I’ve less …
“The devil wants to be prayed to”: The Return of Dr. Mabuse
The Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961) has enough unmaskings for an entire season of Scooby Doo. With the exception of Inspector Lohmann (Gert Frobe) nobody is exactly who they appear …
The Golden Age of Comics as Experienced By Earth-Two Comics Readers
It was early 1938 on Earth-Two when Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster transformed their world’s comics books forever. Like our own Siegel and Shuster, they were established comics creators, working …
Stepping into the same river twice: rereading my comics
Rereading comic books has effects I never expected. The past few years I’ve read so many Bronze Age comics with the P.A.C.K. toyline ad (Professional Agents/Crime Killers!) I think I …
“His lust for power knows no end”: The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Returning to Dr Mabuse almost 30 years after Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Fritz Lang gave us a film that feels very different from its predecessors. Lang returned to the series …
Misconceptions of my youth
The classic argument for why Crisis on Infinite Earths was necessary was that DC’s multiple Earths were just too confusing to new readers, turning them off. As someone who started …