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) …
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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 …
I thought Joe Simon’s work on Prez was bizarre. Then I reread Brother Power the Geek
I’ve joked for years that judging by Prez and other books Joe Simon wrote in the 1970s, he’d gotten into some really good drugs. By comparison with Prez, Brother Power, …
I have to know, did Captain Action survive his first issue?
When last we left Captain Action, the Man of Mythology, he was in bad shape. If anyone lost sleep over his fate don’t worry, it’s going to be okay. The …