Leaving soon from Netflix, er DC Comics. And not soon, this was 1968!
Monday we said goodbye to comics legend Gardner Fox. He wasn’t the only creator and character leaving DC as the 1960s approached their end. John Broome stuck around but wrote …
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Fox on the run
Late 1968 must have been a scary time at DC. Since the Golden Age, they’d been top dog in comic books. Now Marvel was making steady gains and the massive …
This man is not a fashion icon
Sub-Mariner #7, the climax of Namor’s battle with Paul Destine, is not particularly satisfying. Though I do like that cover. “For President —The Man Called Destiny!” (Roy Thomas, John Buscema) …
And how, exactly, does finding planets for Galactus to destroy qualify you as a pure soul?
As I mentioned last month, I find all the over-emoting and speechifying Stan Lee wrote into Silver Surfer #1 insufferable. Reading the next couple of issues, I realized something else: …
Wonder Woman … no more!
(Another old post I’m fitting into the right time frame in my Silver Age Reread) Wonder Woman #178 warned all readers that Big Changes Were Coming. The following issue, they …
Comic books do not exist in a vacuum. Unless you screwed up while housecleaning
Superhero comic books, like any form of art, do not exist on a spiritual plane untouched by the real world. Sometimes, like Hawk and the Dove or Brother Power, the …
Superboy shattered! Batman becomes Robin! Captain America mourns Bucky! Wonder Woman forgets her mother’s birthday! And more!
Time for another random selection of stories. Most of them are from late 1968 as part of my Silver Age reread but the three at the end are earlier, taken …