Surprisingly grim for 1965
Tales of Suspense #73 has Gene Colan take over the art/plotting on Iron Man from Don Heck and it’s an immediate improvement. Heck was never comfortable with doing the plotting …
Author: frasersherman
So why Hammett?
I really like the cover for this collection —— but why pick Dashiell Hammett to select the stories (or stick his name on the cover even if he didn’t)? While …
Be he never so humble there’s no place like Holmes
(When I signed up for a blog tour to promote my steampunk novel Questionable Minds, I wrote five blog posts for participating bloggers to use. One of the tour hosts …
The batshit racist character find of 1965: Egg Fu!
(This is a repost from my own blog from 2016. I see no need to re-evaluate my 2016 assessment of Egg Fu). So having finished Showcase Presents Wonder Woman Vol. …
DC’s sensational character finds of 1965!
(Or more precisely the end of 1964 through the beginning of 1966, going, as usual, by cover dates). One of the joys of my Silver Age reread is when I …
The blackest Bond: Live and Let Die
1973’s Live and Let Die is a reminder that the course of any serialized entertainment — comics, TV, film series — is often dictated by outside events and backstage struggles …
The Ripper and the Baronet: my novel Questionable Minds is out
Some decades back, I wrote a novel. Okay, I’ve actually written several unpublished novels. Questionable Minds was my fifth. By that point I’d gained enough experience that when I looked …