Flying gorillas weren’t enough?
I assume the Gardner Fox/Carmine Infantino/Murphy Anderson story “The Flying Gorilla Menace” from Strange Adventures #125 was one of their “cover first, story later” creations. If so, they put far …
Author: frasersherman
Down these magic streets a man must go: Lovecraft, P.I.
When my DVD player/VCR died a while back, that left my VHS tapes more or less orphaned. Sure, I could get down my backup VCR and swap it out with …
Things I cannot believe
There are lots of things in comics I don’t bat an eye at. Superman lifting up apartment buildings so he can peer into the lead-lined basement? Cool. Batman getting knocked …
The Sweet Glow of Electric Sex
When I was living in Shalimar Florida in the early 1970s, there was a drive-in just a couple of miles from our house. I never went. Even after I got …
There’s no “I” in team: Patterns in DC’s Silver Age non-super teams
In hindsight, everyone agrees that Jack Kirby’s 1956 creation of the Challengers of the Unknown was a dry run for what he and Stan Lee perfected five years later when …
Scooby Doo, Where Are You? All mashed up in the DCU!
When Gorilla City is haunted by a ghost, and Flash’s speed isn’t enough to help …When hard-traveling heroes Green Arrow and Green Lantern arrive in groovy Karma Corners during a …
The vanishing bookshelf
Like so many of us, my shelf of “to be read” books has always been long. While I set some limits on myself — there’s no point to spending money …