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 …
Author: frasersherman
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 …
No longer invincible? The Justice League in 1966 and ’67
For some reason, Gardner Fox in late ’66 and on into the following year — Justice League of America #50 through #55 — decided it would be interesting if he …
DC’s Batman in 1967
When I was a kid, the Batman TV show was amazingly cool. A superhero, right there on the TV, and in live action! I hadn’t seen the George Reeves Superman …
A turning point in the life of the Hulk!
As I mentioned in an earlier post about my Silver Age reread, when the Hulk relaunched his series as Giant-Man’s companion in Tales to Astonish, it came with a reboot …
Things I didn’t get into
Comic books of the Silver Age were, of course, rife with ads and many of them sounded so amazingly cool. X-ray spectacles! A tank full of tiny sea monkeys! Foolproof …