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 …
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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 …
Steve Rogers, you did her wrong.
Silver Age Marvel did not do well by the MU’s women. Someone once described DC’s love interests as Katherine Hepburn — confident, capable, often with professional jobs (lawyer, cop, reporter, …
Adventure Comics #395 as a time capsule
Robert Kanigher’s first story in Adventure Comics #395 (cover by Curt Swam) is a product of its time — not so much the story itself but a couple of images. …
Blumhouse tried reinventing two classic horror films. Only one worked.
(These are two movie reviews cross-posted from my own blog). The Invisible Man (2020) hooked me from the opening sequence in which Cecilia (Elizabeth Moss) sneaks away from her husband …
Enter the Bronze (Age) Widow! Natasha gets dangerous
As I’ve discussed in several recent posts, lots of heroes disappeared or rebooted, as comics moved into the 1970s. The Black Widow’s reboot was one of the successful ones, as …