“Stan, Dr. Doom’s suing us for libel. Oh, and our office just exploded”
How exactly do comics publishers in the MU and DCU survive? Here they are, printing stories about people who commit multiple murders on a whim, or freeze entire cities in …
Author: frasersherman
Love changes everything. Except when it doesn’t.
Monday I wrote about Marvel superheroes and their love interests as of mid-1971. DC didn’t play up the personal drama as much as Marvel (nor usually as well) but as …
Love hurts! Silver Age romances as the Bronze Age begins
It’s a cliche that “nobody stays dead in comics except Uncle Ben and Bucky — ooops.” It’s also wrong. Sub-Mariner #37 killed off Lady Dorma and 50-plus years later, she’s still …
“My letter’s on the fan page!” Silver Age Marvel Comics on Earth-616
As I described in my last post about the comic-book industry in comic-book worlds, Stan Lee of Earth-616 spent the 1950s writing war, horror and Patsy Walker comics for Marvel. …
Old, but not gold: Dr. Satan’s pulp adventures
(Another repost from my own blog) Pulp-reprint publisher Steeger Books has enabled me to buy a number of neat books such as Hades and Hocus Pocus. When they had a …
A legion of monsters in your house! Can anything stop Dr. Deadly?
I’ve periodically looked at the model kits of the 1960s as part of my Silver Age reread. We have the classic horror models — —the superheroes — — and the …
Not a dream, not a hoax, not an imaginary story — I guess it must be true!
“Not a dream, not a hoax, not an imaginary story!” In the Silver Age putting that or similar phrasing on a cover was a way to telegraph that no matter …