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 …
Author: frasersherman
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 …
“I didn’t know Future Man used a life battery!” Marvel Comics on Earth-616
Where DC Comics only occasionally showed us what the DCU’s Silver Age comics were like, Marvel wasted no time establishing Earth-616 had its own version of Marvel Comics, publishing its …
The secrets of Marvel Comics revealed — or so I thought
It was soooo damn cool 50 years ago when my brother received Origins of Marvel Comics for a Christmas present. How could it not be cool? Even though I was a …
After the Crisis: Comic Books on New Earth after COIE
Crisis on Infinite Earths not only upended DC’s continuity, it upended the Earth-One and Earth-Two comic-book industries. In the aftermath of the multiverse merging, comics changed radically and ended up …
Challenge the unknown and ask the question
Which question? Well, that depends on your choice of unknown. As we all know, comic books are full of loose ends. Plots that never got resolved because the creative team …