Month: November 2023
Mike: I never met him but I surely appreciated him
For years, my browser’s homepage has been Mike’s Amazing World with its array of comic-book covers, credits and synopses. I was thrown Monday morning when I opened up Firefox and …
Review: The “Birds of Prey” by Thompson & Romero
DC’s Birds of Prey is one of the few superhero series that I’m extraordinarily territorial about. The initial Chuck Dixon run pulled me back into comics. I was disappointed in …
Titans, Legionnaires, mutants: scenes from different Silver Age team books
Teen Titans #11, “Monster Bait,” by Bob Haney and Nick Cardy, is a standard yarn for the series in the Silver Age. With school out for the summer, Speedy shows …
I know it’s black Friday but these ads will not help you find fabulous bargains
They are, after all, more than 50 years old. Still, this seemed like the day to do another post about the DC advertising I encounter in my Silver Age reread. …