The Silver Age in 1966: more than just Marvel and DC
As I’ve mentioned previously, DC in 1965 looked very different from when the era started in 1956. Marvel isn’t the same company either. Western comics are fading away, though they’d …
Author: frasersherman
Drive back the dark in 2023!
The sun cycle is tilting as it always does and light is increasing again. In 2023, let’s keep driving darkness back in all the ways that we can. While I …
The sensational DC promotions of 1966!
One of the fun things about rereading Silver Age comic books rather than reprints is the ads. DC and Marvel would both try their level best to convince you that …
A question for the ages, or at least for the week after Christmas
To wit, how do I spend all the Christmas gift certificates I got? More precisely, do I spend them on stuff I was planning to get anyway, or wait on …
Now that’s realism!
As I’ve said before, the Silver Age origin of the Teen Titans is sheer elegance in its simplicity: they realized teenagers sometimes needed superheroes in their corner so they formed …
Tomboy: say her name and the underworld trembles!
To most people, Janie Jackson is an unremarkable tween girl. “A perfect little lady,” sweet but shy, maybe a little on the timid side. To readers of Captain Flash in …
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 …