A historical inaccuracy I can’t help noticing
Anyone as old as me (67) knows how much Americans (and Brits) used to smoke. For much of the last century, tobacco use was commonplace. Cigars. Pipes. Cigarettes. Snuff. Chewing …
Category: Fraser Sherman
The king and the kook: Jack Kirby takes over Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen
Looking back, I’m not sure it’s possible to grasp what a seismic shock Jack Kirby leaving Marvel in 1970 was at the time. There was a lot less moving between …
Bruce Wayne goes to the movies!
Just as it’s easy to inject Superman into a story by having Clark Kent assigned to cover something (“A scientist has been digging up graves to get raw material for …
Farewell to the King
As I’ve mentioned many times, I didn’t read Marvel much as a kid. I came in late on the Fourth World, shortly before DC pulled the plug on New GodsĀ andĀ Forever …
Tarzan (and other people) at the Earth’s Core! The rest of the Pellucidar series
Long before DC or Marvel, Edgar Rice Burroughs built a shared universe. First we have the narrator of so many of his framing sequences, the Edgar Rice Burroughs who’s related …
For the world is hollow, and I have touched a dinosaur: Pellucidar
Long after scientists and geographers figured out the Earth was round, they still hadn’t figured out what was inside it. As Walter Kafton-Minkel discusses in hisĀ Subterranean Worlds, some theorists imagined …
A pretty picture of summer fun
The heat here in NC is harsh enough (or I’m too old) that I don’t find lying around outdoors to be much fun these days. However I can still appreciate …