More crimes of the century
And this time the culprit is the U.S. government! THE PLUTONIUM FILES: America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War by Eileen Welsome is a grimly detailed reminder that movie …
Category: Fraser Sherman
Childhood’s end: one book, one miniseries
(It’s been another hectic week so it’s reprints from my own blog this week) One of the sad but inevitable parts of growing older is watching Great Masters of Science …
May your doom be nice
As y’all must know, Damage Control was a series by Dwayne McDuffie and Ernie Colon dealing with the company that cleans up after superhero battles, alien invasions, giant robot clashes, etc. …
“I’ll commit the crime of the century — this century and all the centuries to come!”
The title comes from Moriarty’s (John Huston) boast to Sherlock Holmes (Roger Moore) in the 1976 TV movie Sherlock Holmes in New York. It’s an ambitious boast; unless someone commits …
You got horror comics in my love comics! And my war comics! And my superhero books!
As I blogged about last year, the Bronze Age horror-comics revival began in 1968 when DC rebooted House of Mystery into its definitive form, with Cain as caretaker, landlord to ill-fated …
The shape of comics to come
Flash #209 (cover by Dick Giordano), cover-dated September, 1971, was a landmark issue. Not that I’d have known it at the time, even if I’d picked it up new (I …
Doc Savage, Man of — Gun-Metal Grey? Lin Carter’s Zarkon, Lord of the Unknown
(Another repost from my own blog) As the editor of Ballantine Books’ fantasy line in the 1960s and 1970s, Lin Carter had an unerring eye for great fantasy. In his …