If the Bronze Age begins in a forest and nobody reads it, are the pages blank?
Going by cover dates, my Silver Age reread is now up to the summer of 1970 (though I still have some earlier stuff to catch up on). We’ve seen at …
Author: frasersherman
Superman’s weakness is Brussells sprouts? Yeah, I hate them too!
By early 1970 my family had moved from Stanmore, England, to Fort Walton Beach, Florida. I was settling in, sort of — it was quite an adjustment — but I …
Schemers! Red Raven! Dark Shadows! Hero (of course) fighting hero! Marvel, cover-dated June 1970
We’re working on getting our image-posting powers back. For now, all the covers of the books I’m talking about are visible here. And no, there’s no particular reason for picking …
Shatter the battery, unleash the Age of Bronze!
If you’re a comics nerd with any exposure to books of the early 1970s, you’ve undoubtedly seen this cover. The story inside, Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams’ “No Evil Shall …
Seduced by old trade paperbacks
(So given our ongoing tech problems it occurred to me I could work around them by reposting some of my earliest columns, as I have all the illustrations I need. …
Bond in the age of AIDS? Timothy Dalton in The Living Daylights
A couple of years back I began looking at the first film of the various James Bond actors, then stopped after Live and Let Die. As our current can’t-load-images problem …
It’s not easy always rooting for the antihero
(Title courtesy of Taylor Swift. I’m not a Swiftie but I do like her music). “Antihero” is a word that covers a lot of ground. For example, we have characters …