Batman gets a new car! No, it’s not his midlife crisis.
With Batman #217, cover-dated December 1969, the New Look era of Batman ended. The Dark Knight era of the 1970s began. The New Look era launched in 1964 to juice …
Author: frasersherman
Wanna know a secret? The original Secret Six
As my Silver Age reread is now sliding into 1970, I’m writing about Secret Six a little late. #1 of the original series by that name came out cover-dated April/May …
Stan Lee saw the problem. Steve Englehart found the solution
Captain America #122, “The Sting of the Scorpion,” (Stan Lee, Gene Colan) isn’t a good issue but it’s an interesting one. The story is basic: Sharon’s on a mission for …
Life, death and famous firsts
The least of the first times I’m covering here is the first appearance of Agatha Harkness in Fantastic Four #94, “The Return of the Frightful Four” by Stan Lee and …
Famous firsts
As I’ve mentioned before, both DC or Marvel were off their game as the Silver Age approached its end. DC’s trying anything and everything to make up for the sales …
Grease is the word, it’s the word the League heard
Like a lot of people my age or close to it, I was a big fan of the Grease movie when it came out in 1978. A year or two …
Maybe not weird but certainly unusual
One of my occasional pleasures is to go to the used-book site Abe Books and browse their Weird Books Room. These used books come in two categories: 1, the insanely …