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 …
Author: frasersherman
Let’s end the month with Gene Colan art!
Daredevil #58-60 (Roy Thomas, Gene Colan) is a typical outing for the Man Without Fear. He’s up against the latest crime boss controlling the Big Apple mobs, the aptly named …
Avengers battle the JLA! Green Arrow becomes poor! Kang tells a fib!
As everyone probably knows, the first JLA/Avengers crossover took place in 1969. As Roy Thomas explains it, “This initial takeoff on 4 members of DC’s Justice League was the result …
Products of a zeitgeist not my own
When people call something “a product of its time,” it’s usually not a compliment. Typically it means the book, film, comic book or whatever has attitudes about women, gays or …
Not everything fictional characters do is justifiable
(This is a post from more than a decade ago on my own blog. Much like using Greg Hatcher’s old posts, it gives y’all more to read here) I’m not …
Plugging a gap with a zap!
As I mentioned a few months back, when Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes swapped books, it cut the LSH out of my Silver Age reread. Following Action Comics #376, the Legion …
This is a test …
Working on fixing the tech problems. If I can post this, it will tell us something.The John Buscema page is purely to give you something good to look at.