I’m thankful for comics
I just love this Joe Kubert cover. I am thankful for my wife, my pets and lots of stuff more important to me than comics. But having a fictional universe …
Author: frasersherman
Jungle Tales
I’ve always enjoyed “The Hunter” by James Shooter and George Papp in Adventure Comics #358. Encountering it once again as part of my Silver Age reread, I found it disappointing. …
He’s not the chosen one: Kamandi, the last boy on Earth
(This being a repost from my own blog) Jack Kirby’s Bronze Age series, Kamandi, Last Boy on Earth is the only post-Fourth World book of his besides Eternals that impressed …
There was a time Holmes battling Lovecraftian horrors would have been unusual
Which is how I came to write my first published story back in 1983. Not that I’m claiming The Adventure of the Red Leech was the first such crossover — …
Wonder Woman, Power Girl and Black Canary
I picked up Wonder Woman #1 by Tom King and Daniel Sampere (cover by Sampere, I believe) because King’s Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow was amazing. I hate King’s Batman and …
The Shield of Steranko!
When Jim Steranko jumped to Marvel from the advertising world, he brought a very different style of illustration with him. He started out inking Kirby on the SHIELD strip in …
Three views of the Thing and a thought about Alicia Masters
First this scene, from Fantastic Four #60 (Stan Lee, Jack Kirby), the ending issue of the FF’s epic, multi-part battle with Dr. Doom, amped up by the power of the Silver …