Thinning the herd
In blogging last week about the Silver-to-Bronze Age transition, one thing I didn’t talk much about is the stuff we didn’t see in the early Bronze Age. That is, the …
Category: Fraser Sherman
A film so nice, Howard Hawks made it twice!
When I was working on The Aliens Are Here, I spotlighted both the Howard Hawks Thing From Another World (officially directed by his protege Christian Nyby but there’s a good case …
If the Bronze Age begins in a forest and nobody reads it, are the pages blank?
Going by cover dates, my Silver Age reread is now up to the summer of 1970 (though I still have some earlier stuff to catch up on). We’ve seen at …
Superman’s weakness is Brussells sprouts? Yeah, I hate them too!
By early 1970 my family had moved from Stanmore, England, to Fort Walton Beach, Florida. I was settling in, sort of — it was quite an adjustment — but I …
Schemers! Red Raven! Dark Shadows! Hero (of course) fighting hero! Marvel, cover-dated June 1970
We’re working on getting our image-posting powers back. For now, all the covers of the books I’m talking about are visible here. And no, there’s no particular reason for picking …
Shatter the battery, unleash the Age of Bronze!
If you’re a comics nerd with any exposure to books of the early 1970s, you’ve undoubtedly seen this cover. The story inside, Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams’ “No Evil Shall …
Seduced by old trade paperbacks
(So given our ongoing tech problems it occurred to me I could work around them by reposting some of my earliest columns, as I have all the illustrations I need. …