Spiderman No More? Say it ain’t so, Joe!
When I read a reprint of Spider-Man #50, “Spider-Man No More!” by Stan Lee and John Romita, I thought it was a good story but no more than that. It …
Author: frasersherman
Another bit of Silver Age deconstruction
As I mentioned last year, Batman #166 was one of the earliest times I’ve seen a superhero book deconstruct superhero cliches, pointing out the absurdity of putting Batman (or by …
It’s 1967 and the space race is ON!
Comics got in on the space race before the space race was a thing. DC was sending chimps into space before Sputnik, as on this Murphy Anderson cover. Likewise Titano’s …
Doc Savage in Oz? Doc Phoenix in the The Oz Encounter
Having written about a bad Doc Savage pastiche Monday, I thought I’d follow up with a good pastiche (also edited from an old post on my own blog), from the …
The Secret Non-Canon Origin of Doc Savage: Escape From Loki
(This is another heavily rewritten post from my own blog) In 1972, science fiction author Philip José Farmer published Tarzan Alive, a “biography” of Tarzan that treated him as a …
Time is the fire in which we burn? Why didn’t anyone tell me!
Which is to say I had no time to write a post for today. Instead, let’s look at some paperback covers, shall we? Specifically the work of Jack Gaughan who …
Lo, there shall come changes (but small ones)
The big change in Fantastic Four #61 (Stan Lee, Jack Kirby) was supposed to be the Sandman. The costume upgrade on the cover is only part of it. As the …