Raising Cain
Rereading the Silver Age has taught me repeatedly that my memory is fallible. Even so, sometimes my errors surprise me.I have a crystal-clear memory what happened after Dial H for …
Category: Fraser Sherman
Watching Turner Classic Movies in Greenville, SC
Early last month I took a trip down to Greenville for a Mensa event thrown by the local group. TYG and I went every year until the pandemic; it’s a …
Adventures on the wild, lawless frontier of … Canada!
(Cross-posted from my own blog) A few years back it struck me that it was silly to have the entire Doc Savage series taking up space on my shelves (in …
Women problems: the comics of 1968 had them
1968 was not a good year to be a woman in superhero comics. Ever since Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne returned to the Avengers in #28, the team has …
The Hammer and the Hun: two war comics covers
Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert introduced Hans von Hammer, the Enemy Ace in 1965. It was excellent, but the WW I flying ace didn’t get his own series for three …
When the New Look became the Old Look
My Silver Age reread has now reached the books cover-dated June of 1968 (I’ve still got some earlier stuff to blog about though). Batman’s New Look is about to transition …
Jeepers, Creeper
As my Silver Age reread has now reached Showcase #73 I planned to recycle my 2021 post on the Creeper. As my reread has done what it’s supposed to, giving …