Famous firsts
As I’ve mentioned before, both DC or Marvel were off their game as the Silver Age approached its end. DC’s trying anything and everything to make up for the sales …
Category: Fraser Sherman
Grease is the word, it’s the word the League heard
Like a lot of people my age or close to it, I was a big fan of the Grease movie when it came out in 1978. A year or two …
Let’s end the month with Gene Colan art!
Daredevil #58-60 (Roy Thomas, Gene Colan) is a typical outing for the Man Without Fear. He’s up against the latest crime boss controlling the Big Apple mobs, the aptly named …
Avengers battle the JLA! Green Arrow becomes poor! Kang tells a fib!
As everyone probably knows, the first JLA/Avengers crossover took place in 1969. As Roy Thomas explains it, “This initial takeoff on 4 members of DC’s Justice League was the result …
Products of a zeitgeist not my own
When people call something “a product of its time,” it’s usually not a compliment. Typically it means the book, film, comic book or whatever has attitudes about women, gays or …
Not everything fictional characters do is justifiable
(This is a post from more than a decade ago on my own blog. Much like using Greg Hatcher’s old posts, it gives y’all more to read here) I’m not …
Plugging a gap with a zap!
As I mentioned a few months back, when Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes swapped books, it cut the LSH out of my Silver Age reread. Following Action Comics #376, the Legion …