Why yes, diversity is a plus.
(Another repost from my own blog from years back). A couple of weeks back, I was browsing a blog post suffused with nostalgia for blacksploitation movies—which I admit to being …
Category: Fraser Sherman
Losers, robots and spiders
As I’ve mentioned before in this Silver Age reread, I’ve never been a war comics fan, and I was barely reading any comics from the start of ’69 until 1972. …
Not just Neal Adams: Batman in December of 1969
“Secret of the Waiting Graves” in Detective Comics #395 marked the beginning of the Neal Adams/Denny O’Neil era of Batman, successor to the Silver Age’s New Look. While O’Neil and …
Advertising in comics from the end of ’69.
Do they still sell song books? Back in that era lots of us practiced plucking guitar to popular tunes — though not me, I was musically useless. I’ve never heard …
The horror — the horror!
When the superhero genre bit the dust at the end of the 1940s — as y’all know, Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman were the only heroes to keep their books …
Contrary to The Who, the kids are not alright
At the end of the 1960s, youth seemed to be running wild in a way it never had before. The 20th century had already transformed America’s idea of youth by …
The prime directive blues
(Another old post from my own blog). Star Trek‘s Prime Directive is a nice moral statement but a pain in the butt for writers to deal with. As every Trek …