Two random images from ’69
One is this humor page from a 1969 issue of House of Mystery. No particular reason, I just found it funny. I’m not sure why this ad commanded my attention …
One is this humor page from a 1969 issue of House of Mystery. No particular reason, I just found it funny. I’m not sure why this ad commanded my attention …
One of my first posts here (dear god, back in 2017?) was about how having old comics available in trade paperback affected my reading choices and therefore my shopping choices. …
Writing about Daredevil #49, I said Barry Windsor-Smith wasn’t anywhere near the artist he’d soon become. By a couple of issues later, he’s a lot closer. In #50 and #51 …
Comics scribe Mike Friedrich was writing serious “relevant” stories pretty much from the get-go. As I said when I wrote about Teen Titans #19, it’s a surprise to find him …
As I wrote about last year, when Roy Thomas started writing the origin of the X-Men — how did Professor X recruit Scott, Bobby, Warren and Hank before #1? — …
As I’ve written before, Gene Colan is one of the artists who often seemed to struggle with the Marvel Method requiring him to do the lion’s share of the plotting. …
For some reason Marvel got robot-happy in early 1969. The robot doesn’t show in this Gene Colan cover, but he’s in the story. Kree warrior Captain Marvel discovers Walter Lawson …