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 …
Tag: DC Comics
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 …
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” …
A chaotic evil series? Well, the characters were evil and the writing was chaotic …
(Another rewrite of an old post from my own blog, this one from 2011) Bronze Age books suffered a lot from shifting creative teams. For every book like Flash, where Cary …
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 …