Marvel’s “War is Hell” isn’t hell to read but it’s closer to hell than heaven.
As Greg Hatcher has remarked in many of his columns, we live in an age when an astonishing amount of old comic book material is available. I completed my set …
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Bill Bixby, I did you wrong
Back when CBS’ The Incredible Hulk was on the air, I was in college and didn’t have convenient access to TV (my freshman dorm had one set, down in the …
What happens after the last lyric?
Most songs are complete in themselves. The New Radicals’ “Someday, We’ll Know,” for example, has the singer in torment from his last breakup, wondering why it didn’t work out, telling …
“Stan, Dr. Doom’s suing us for libel. Oh, and our office just exploded”
How exactly do comics publishers in the MU and DCU survive? Here they are, printing stories about people who commit multiple murders on a whim, or freeze entire cities in …
Love changes everything. Except when it doesn’t.
Monday I wrote about Marvel superheroes and their love interests as of mid-1971. DC didn’t play up the personal drama as much as Marvel (nor usually as well) but as …
Love hurts! Silver Age romances as the Bronze Age begins
It’s a cliche that “nobody stays dead in comics except Uncle Ben and Bucky — ooops.” It’s also wrong. Sub-Mariner #37 killed off Lady Dorma and 50-plus years later, she’s still …
“My letter’s on the fan page!” Silver Age Marvel Comics on Earth-616
As I described in my last post about the comic-book industry in comic-book worlds, Stan Lee of Earth-616 spent the 1950s writing war, horror and Patsy Walker comics for Marvel. …