BEM: Just like “Shazam!” only you know, not.
(Another old post I’m reposting because my Silver Age reread has caught up with it). Back in the Silver Age, DC was always including one-page features to help us kids …
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In Green Lantern #49, John Broome and Gil Kane shook up the series by having Hal Jordan lose Carol Ferris forever, quit his job and split from Coast City. From …
Art, webs and more: somewhat random thoughts connected to Spider-Man.
One thing I’ve learned rereading the Silver Age is what a mixed bag the “Marvel method” — assigning the artists the lion’s share of the plotting — turned out to …
Maniaks, Maniaks at your door!
I would like to follow my title by saying “and you’re laughing like you’ve never laughed before!” but having read the Maniaks’ three Showcase tryout issues, I wasn’t. I doubt …
Magic runs wild in the 20th century as I shamelessly promote myself!
That’s the subtitle for my new short story collection, 19-Infinity, a collection of unrelated short stories set at various points in the 1900s. It’s out in paperback from Amazon and …
They resurrected Star Trek for this? Original series, Season Three
(Combining a couple of old posts from my own blog) Back in the early 1970s, SF TV meant syndicated Star Trek reruns and not much else. I watched them a …
The past isn’t dead. It’s not even past
In one of Greg Hatcher’s reprint columns he commented about how much comics material at the time he was writing seemed to be borrowing or homaging older material, targeting older …