The king and the kook: Jack Kirby takes over Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen
Looking back, I’m not sure it’s possible to grasp what a seismic shock Jack Kirby leaving Marvel in 1970 was at the time. There was a lot less moving between …
Author: frasersherman
Bruce Wayne goes to the movies!
Just as it’s easy to inject Superman into a story by having Clark Kent assigned to cover something (“A scientist has been digging up graves to get raw material for …
Farewell to the King
As I’ve mentioned many times, I didn’t read Marvel much as a kid. I came in late on the Fourth World, shortly before DC pulled the plug on New GodsĀ andĀ Forever …
This post is an excuse
For what, you ask? Well, to post this Marshall Rogers cover as part of my Silver Age Reread. I’m sorry I couldn’t get it in as one photo but it’s …
I am old enough to remember when this was cool …
While reading some late 1970s comics for my Silver Age reread, I came across this ad. Man, did it take me back. I wouldn’t have paid much attention to this …
Tarzan (and other people) at the Earth’s Core! The rest of the Pellucidar series
Long before DC or Marvel, Edgar Rice Burroughs built a shared universe. First we have the narrator of so many of his framing sequences, the Edgar Rice Burroughs who’s related …
For the world is hollow, and I have touched a dinosaur: Pellucidar
Long after scientists and geographers figured out the Earth was round, they still hadn’t figured out what was inside it. As Walter Kafton-Minkel discusses in hisĀ Subterranean Worlds, some theorists imagined …