Mutants and missiles, selfish heroes and a crisis: more stories from 1963
In one of my previous Silver Age posts, I pointed out that in July, 1962, Stan Lee used a Circus of Crime in two different books. A year later, I …
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An absent-minded professor, a doctor and a light-bulb: stories from 1963
Yep, it’s another of my posts looking at random stories from my Silver Age rereading that seemed worth of comment. There’s several more from 1963 I want to talk about, …
Wow. Freedom is exhausting
I became fully vaccinated roughly two weeks ago. It’s been surprisingly overwhelming. Good, but overwhelming. The first few days of freedom, I got my haircut (I no longer feel the …
Once again, pandemic reality trumps fiction
So last week, TYG and I reached the full immunity (or as full as it gets) two-week point after our second vaccinations. I followed this up by getting a haircut, …
And men shall call him — warlock! Adam Warlock before Jim Starlin
Adam Warlock’s first series wasn’t perfect. Coming out in 1972, however, it was perfectly timed. I can’t imagine Marvel trying a religious allegory (“My dream casting is High Evolutionary as …
A Publishing Model I Hope Won’t Catch On (or) Disney Must Pay!
Last November I read an alarming Twitter thread from Cory Doctorow on Disney refusing to pay Alan Dean Foster royalties. Foster was the author (uncredited) of the original Star Wars …
Will they save the comic-book Western — or ruin it? Bat Lash and Scalphunter
Back in 1968, I kept seeing ads asking “Bat Lash—Will He Save the West or Ruin It?” I had no clue who or what Bat Lash was, and no way …