Three early Silver Age covers, three related mini-posts
First cover, by Curt Swan, for Superman #146. It’s a full-length retelling of Superman’s origin from1961, but it feels about 20 years ahead of its time. “The Story of Superman’s Life” …
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Comics You Should Own – ‘Wildcats 2.0’ and ‘Wildcats 3.0’
Joe Casey writing Wildstorm books is usually gold, and this is no exception!
A chaotic evil series? Well, the characters were evil and the writing was chaotic …
(Another rewrite of an old post from my own blog, this one from 2011) Bronze Age books suffered a lot from shifting creative teams. For every book like Flash, where Cary …
Comics You Should Own – ‘Grendel’ #34-50
You’re going to have to handle one more Grendel post, but I swear I’ll move on after it!
Wasted women of the Silver Age
No, not women who got wasted, women the writers wasted. Two women who deserved better. First we have Lesla-Lar, the Kandorian scientific genius who debuted in Action Comics #279 as “Supergirl’s …
