Women in love, women in action
I haven’t tackled romance comics in my Silver Age reread because I never read them as a kid (I did as a tween, hoping they’d offer some insight into this …
Category: Comics
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #160: ‘One More Friday at the Tipping Point’
Ok, now he’s done, I promise!
Hard times create strange heroes: new ideas from DC in the late Silver Age
As I said recently, the late 1960s were a tough time to be DC Comics. They’d been the top dog in the industry for most of their existence; now their …
It’s Marvel Art Wednesday!
Writing these Silver Age Reread posts, I’ve never denied my heart lies with DC more than Marvel. The reread has taught me that Marvel did some brilliant stuff; at the …
Superman, Cain and Quasimodo! Random oddities from the comics of late 1968.
Action #368 and 369 by Otto Binder and Curt Swan reminded me how some of Otto Binder’s Superman Family work resembles his Captain Marvel days. Scenes of cops sitting around …