Crime clowns and deconstructed deathtraps: notes from Batman’s New Look era
As I approach the end of 1964 in my Silver Age rereading, I keep meaning to do one humongous post about all the 1964 stuff I want to cover. But …
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Moby Dick
A while ago, I started reading Moby Dick, because it’s a classic. I’m not a quick reader. It’s a famous book about one man’s monomaniacal quest to kill a particular …
Darker than Deathstroke: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
Writing about Identity Crisis last week, I complained that I often found comics attempts at doing hard-edged, “this is the real world, we can’t play fair” stories as naive as …
Return with me now to the thrilling days of 1964!
1964 was a big year for green people at the Big Two. Hulk, after a couple of years bouncing in and out of various Marvel books, got his own series …
The downward spiral of Arthur Light, Ph.D. (final Identity Crisis post)
Some comic book characters find eternal fame right from the start. Some rise from obscurity to become legends: John Stewart made one appearance in 1971, a few more Bronze Age …
