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Save the environment! And the Native Americans! And the Chicago Seven! More relevance
One thing you can say about the relevant stories of the late Silver/early Bronze Age is that writers had no shortage of issues to choose from. By late 1970 writers …
Relevance! Galactus! The Serpent Crown! Glimpses of Marvel in January 1969
Along with the infamous marriage of Yellowjacket and the Wasp, Marvel had a few other books cover-dated for January 1969. Here are some of them, starting with Amazing Spider-Man #68. …
The Three R’s: Robbins, Robin and Relevance
“One Bullet Too Many” in 1969’s Batman #217 (Frank Robbins, Irv Novick) is the story I think of as the end of the New Look Batman and the beginning of …
Timelessness and relevance
I don’t remember what prompted it but a couple of years back my friend Ross Bagby and I got into a discussion of how a lot of 20th century fiction …
From Genre Book Club to Deathlok to Mark Gruenwald’s Omniverse. Why yes, that is a long, strange trip
About two years ago, I joined the local library’s Genre Book Club. The premise is that rather than read the same book for each meeting, everyone reads the book of …
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #359: ‘Happy Birthday, Big Guy! Here’s to the Lost Years …’
A long post about the Big Blue Boy Scout!