Jean Loring and Lady Dorma: highs and lows of Silver Age romance
In my Silver Age rereading I’m finding Jean Loring is one of my favorite love interests. It’s not that her love affair with Ray “the Atom” Palmer is particularly intense …
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“To be continued …” stories from the end of 1964
Besides the Idol-Head of Diabolu, there were several other noteworthy plotlines left hanging at the end of 1964. One began in Detective Comics #334 where the Caped Crusader met “The …
Giving up and going home
Over on his blog, former Marvel editor Tom Brevoort recently asked a question: how long will you stick with a book you like after it’s gone bad? My initial answer, …
Making your hero a sexist is not brilliant characterization
I wasn’t at all a fan of the New 52 Wonder Woman, but the book’s handling of Orion brought it to rock bottom When Orion shows up to join forces …
Shall we look at some interesting cover art? Yes, we shall
As my paying gigs (or hopefully paying in the case of fiction) are taking up a lot of energy, this is the best I can manage. But it’s eye candy, …
Once they were ordinary women but now …
In the Silver Age, the vast majority of super-hero love interests were ordinary humans. Since then, as someone recently pointed out to me, a surprising number have become superheroes or …
The spy on whom the sun never sets: James Bond and England
When Ian Fleming published the first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1953, Britain was widely seen as a nation in a decline. During the war years, the UK had been …