Paranoia, paranoia everybody’s coming to get me
Working on my book about paranoia in film, I inevitably wound up reading a lot about it in real life. Not clinical paranoia but political paranoia. As the historian Richard …
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In the summer of 1966, titans fell (and other stuff happened)
Okay, “titans fell” is a clickbait exaggeration. House of Secrets was never a Silver Age titan and Mystery In Space dropped in quality after Jack Schiff took it over from …
Now that I think about it, this is quite remarkable
Last week I read the Tom King/Greg Smallwood Human Target Vol. 1. I don’t like King’s work much — I wouldn’t have touched this if it wasn’t at my local library …
The dullest conspiracy ever conceived by the mind of man!
Several years ago (this is another post reprinted from my own blog) I wrote a movie book called Screen Enemies of the American Way, spotlighting movies and TV built around …
More advertising from DC’s Silver Age
Back in January I posted about some of DC’s experimental promotions in early 1966. My Silver Age rereading has since made it through the summer of that year and DC’s …
Ditko, departed
In the summer of 1966, Marvel Comics suddenly went Steve Ditko-less. I’ve read a variety of reasons — money, locking horns with Stan Lee, fundamental disagreements about the series’ direction …
One by Dorfman, Two by Hamilton
I meant to review “Superman’s Sacrifice” in Superman #171 some time back — it came out August, 1964 and my Silver Age reread is now two years past that — …