A hip Amazon who swings? Wonder Woman begins the Diana Prince years
Some years back, I began rereading my run of Wonder Woman, which I do with most of my old comics eventually, and blogging about them, which I don’t usually do. …
Author: frasersherman
They just didn’t get it
Anyone out there remember Strikeforce: Morituri? This 1986 series by Peter Gillis and Brent Eric Anderson is set in a near-future world where the alien Horde have Earth under their …
August, 1965: Bondage comics
No, not the Wonder Woman kind of bondage.I mean “bond-age” as in the Age of James Bond. After Goldfinger came out in ’64, spies were suddenly cooler than they’d ever …
It was the summer of ’65. Here are some comics covers
No particular theme here other than picking covers I like, or that I at least find interesting. This Curt Swan cover is an excellent example of the drawbacks of Cover …
Big news about a small superhero: The Silver Age Atom
My Silver Age reread has given me fresh appreciation from how well Julius Schwartz, Gardner Fox and Gil Kane rebooted the Golden Age Atom. More precisely, how they made this …
Look back, but don’t stare
On the text page in 1987s Airboy and Mr. Monster Special, comics writer Gerard Jones quoted baseball player Satchell Paige (“”It’s okay to look back. Just don’t stare.”) to describe …
Mercy-killing comic books
One bad thing about rereading the Silver Age is that it includes reading stuff that I don’t particularly like.Sgt. Fury, for example, was sometimes billed as the “the war comic …