Doc Savage Man of Flesh Tones? The 1975 Doc Savage Movie
(A repost from my own blog) While I was rereading the complete Doc Savage paperback reprints, I discovered Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975) was streaming free on Amazon …
Author: frasersherman
If Marvel Comics can have Captain Marvel, why not Mary Marvel? Incredible Hulk #142
As I blogged about last year, I’m not a fan of Valkyrie’s debut in Avengers #83. Though of course Valkyrie turns out to be a disguise the Enchantress adopted to …
Brainwashing for fun and justice: Doc Savage’s Crime College
A few years ago I decided to reread Doc Savage. I had the entire run in the Bantam paperback reprints so why not get some use out of them? For …
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. And you don’t know what you didn’t have until it’s there
Justice League of America was my favorite comics series for most of its original run. Not always. Denny O’Neil’s run was the first of many bad stretches, and even Gardner …
It suddenly occurs to me that bronze and silver are not the same metal
Back in 2022, I settled on March 1972 as the cutoff for my ongoing Silver Age reread. In the grand scheme of things it’s not a particularly significant month. It …
I went in knowing “no battle plan survives contact with the enemy,” and my plan still collapsed!
I had every intention of posting more than four times last month. and for posting something this week as well. As the title quote (usually attributed to Prussian military theorist …
The look of the book
(A cross post from my own blog, inspired by yesterday’s cover-art post). THE LOOK OF THE BOOK: Jackets, Covers and Arts at the Edge of Literature by Peter Mendelsund and …