The shipping of Lex and Lois
I recently reached July of 1962 in my Silver Age reread and I discovered this cover on Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane #34. I don’t have the “great imaginary novel” but …
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Kirby von Daniken: The Eternals
As I said in my Omac post, I didn’t care for most of Kirby’s Bronze Age work but The Eternals was an exception. Rereading them in TPB recently confirmed it …
Call Him B’Wana
The Silver Age super-hero BâWana Beast (Beast Master more or less) is, as they say these days, âproblematic.â In 1967, when much of Africa had declared independence from the West, …
Deus Ex Brother Eye: Omac, the One Man Army
Reading Jack Kirby in the Bronze Age made me wonder what his fans were smoking. Why did everyone keep talking about the guy who wrote Devil Dinosaur and The Demon as …
“The Three Jokers” is a perfect Christmas gift for comics fans. That’s a joke
If you find The Three Jokers in your Christmas stocking, blame Krampus. Jason Fabok’s art is good, but Geoff Johns’ story for the three-issue miniseries embodies everything wrong with the Clown …
We didn’t see it coming: fiction and pandemic
Living through 2020 makes me appreciate that novelists and screenwriters aren’t clairvoyant. While we’ve had plagues in history, and several accounts of what they were like â hell, most of …
Three early Silver Age covers, three related mini-posts
First cover, by Curt Swan, for Superman #146. It’s a full-length retelling of Superman’s origin from1961, but it feels about 20 years ahead of its time. “The Story of Superman’s Life” …