Out with old, in with the new — no, wait, it’s in with the old too!
Back in 1968, Marvel shook off its restrictive distribution deal with DC and began expanding its line. Simple enough for them to do: instead of Tales of Suspense with Iron Man and …
Category: Fraser Sherman
Cover art for a Sunday
As a kid I was fascinated by the Carter Brown mystery novels (a pseudonym for Australian writer Alan Yates), purely because of the sexy (and obviously sexual) women decorating the …
A couple of quick images from the comics of 1970
First, this Neal Adams shot [edited to get name right] from Thor #179. It’s not a great story: Loki swaps minds with Thor and Odin can’t help because he’s sealed …
They say that Stark is a mean mother—! You shut your mouth! I’m talking about Howard Stark! Then we can dig it
(Another repost to fit in chronologically with my Silver Age reread). Howard Stark’s first appearance highlights how working in a shared universe is different from just writing stuff by yourself. …
Keeping it real! Two more “relevant” stories
At the end of the 1960s, DC and Marvel were trying soooo hard to prove they were not just disposable funny books for children. No, they were the work of …
Wheelies! Captain America and Black Canary become easy riders
As I keep saying (and most of you know without me saying it), comics do not exist in a vacuum. Writers draw their inspirations from what’s going on around them, …
Is it just me?
Recently as part of my research for the Jekyll and Hyde book, I read Marked Woman: Prostitutes and Prostitution in the Cinema by Russell Campbell (there are a lot of …