A hip Amazon who swings? Wonder Woman says goodbye to the Silver Age
Wonder Woman #178 is typical of something I blogged about in February, that changes that looked seismic in the late 1960s are now just footnotes in comics history. Wonder Woman’s …
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The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #146: ‘Two Rough Days (and How We Cured Them)’
Greg was a big proponent of “comfort food” entertainment!
His doom was sealed in his second issue: the Silver Age Spectre
As I blogged about several years ago, the Spectre’s 1966 Silver Age debut had an absolutely mesmerizing cover, all the more mesmerizing because I missed it on the spinner rack. …
August 1968: Beyond the Big Two.
My Silver Age reread focuses primarily on the Big Two. That’s 90 percent of what I have on hand and what’s available to me, with exceptions such as Magnus, Robot …
It’s been 12 years since the Silver Age began — well, if you’re in August, 1968
Which is the point I’ve reached in my Silver Age reread. One of my reasons for starting it was to see how much things changed over the course of the …
The Three R’s: Robbins, Robin and Relevance
“One Bullet Too Many” in 1969’s Batman #217 (Frank Robbins, Irv Novick) is the story I think of as the end of the New Look Batman and the beginning of …