The Three R’s: Robbins, Robin and Relevance
“One Bullet Too Many” in 1969’s Batman #217 (Frank Robbins, Irv Novick) is the story I think of as the end of the New Look Batman and the beginning of …
Author: frasersherman
Timelessness and relevance
I don’t remember what prompted it but a couple of years back my friend Ross Bagby and I got into a discussion of how a lot of 20th century fiction …
The fox of justice: Three yarns by Gardner F. Fox
Gardner Fox wrote the first comic book I ever read, Justice League of America #30. He is without question, one of my favorite all-time comics writers and in hindsight wrote …
Sex sells. But so does weirdness
At least I assume that’s the reason for today’s batch of covers. First by Patrick Woodroffe—Then Peter Gudynas showing why our government wants to ban Tik-Tok.A psychedelic cover by Gene …
Did you know that sex sells?
And nobody knows that better than paperback cover illustrators, as you’ll see. First, this one by Roger Kastel.Here’s an uncredited cover that implies something really scandalous. My online research hasn’t …
Two covers I like
I’ve no idea why I like this Nick Cardy cover but I do.I know why I like this Jack Kirby cover — because post-Austin Powers a monster called “Shag” (regardless …
Raising Cain
Rereading the Silver Age has taught me repeatedly that my memory is fallible. Even so, sometimes my errors surprise me.I have a crystal-clear memory what happened after Dial H for …