With Apologies to Blue Oyster Cult, Don’t Fear (The Creeper)
Steve Ditko’s Beware the Creeper was nowhere near as good a series as his Shade, the Changing Man, but it’s been far more successful. It only lasted six issues, but …
Steve Ditko’s Beware the Creeper was nowhere near as good a series as his Shade, the Changing Man, but it’s been far more successful. It only lasted six issues, but …
Some origins are just so right, they’re classic. Superman, last survivor of a doomed planet, fighting to defend his adopted homeworld. Batman, avenging the murder of his parents by waging …
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 …
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 …
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” …
(Another rewritten post from my own blog, from 2014). If not for Doc Savage, I might never have started reading Marvel in the Bronze Age. I’d read Marvel occasionally in …
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. …