Wasted women of the Silver Age
No, not women who got wasted, women the writers wasted. Two women who deserved better. First we have Lesla-Lar, the Kandorian scientific genius who debuted in Action Comics #279 as “Supergirl’s …
Category: Fraser Sherman
Satan is in that magazine! Or, I have a new short story out
Okay, actually it’s an old story. I wrote Dark Satanic Mills more than a decade ago, sold it to Tales of the Talisman and reprinted it a couple of years ago in my …
Go Lem or Go Home: Marvel’s “Thing That Walks Like a Man”
I love mythology almost as much as I love comic books. Perhaps that’s not surprising as I encountered them both at a young impressionable age. Justice League of America #30 …
Twentieth Century Geopolitics and East-West Relations in the Shadow of Dr. Fu Manchu
Rereading Sax Rohmerâs Fu Manchu series the past year or so (this is a rewritten 2011 post from my own blog) has been a fascinating experience. Not always the reading. …
They’re Maniaks, Maniaks at Your Door!
I would like to follow my title by saying “and you’re laughing like you’ve never laughed before!” but having read the Maniaks’ three Showcase tryout issues, I wasn’t. I doubt …
Oddball pulp and paperback covers
I love cover art, particularly from the days when the covers worked to reach out and grab you to make you buy them. But sometimes the effort to become interesting …
Superboy: The Farm Team of Steel?
One of the fun parts of rereading the Silver Age month by month is discovering stuff that never registered when I reread old issues or random reprints from the era. …