My favorite Christmas cover
Nick Cardy’s cover for Teen Titans #13, “A Swingin’ Christmas Carol,” just works for me. Maybe it’s the oddity of having the Titans trapped in a Christmas-tree shaped pile of …
Author: frasersherman
The changing of the guard
One of the dismaying truths about comics is that nothing is forever, particularly creative teams. Sometimes this works out great, as when Steve Englehart replaced Roy Thomas writing Avengers or …
They should never have called him mutie!
Don’t make Santa angry. You won’t like him when he gets angry.Probably my all-time favorite thing by Keith Giffen. #SFWApro.
Even Lois Lane would find this cringeworthy
As I said on Monday, Marvel upped its game amazingly between Fantastic Four #1 and the end of 1965. Stan Lee and his collaborators had become masters of continual narrative …
Marvel in 1965: As good as the legend says
Rereading the Silver Age the past few years, I finally appreciate why so many people revered Marvel back in the day. Not that I disliked Marvel myself but I was …
The writer is not the story
Even though I’m well aware Victorian society wasn’t as prim and respectable as many people imagine, Thomas Boyle’s Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead: Beneath the Surface of Victorian …
Sabertooth cats and alien insects
My Silver Age reread is now into January, 1966, which brings me to Daredevil’s encounter with Ka-Zar in Daredevil #12. I’ll have more to say about it when I complete …