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 …
Category: Fraser Sherman
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 …
Roy Thomas and the Hulk were both in New York in April, 1968?
My Silver Age reread has now reached the April, 1968 cover date. By this point Roy Thomas has been writing at Marvel for over two years, starting with his debut …
Nihilism and anarchy in comic books!
Steve Gerber had some great ideas. The Legion of Nihilists, occasional foes of Daimon Hellstrom, sounded like one of them, but it wasn’t.According to the cult’s leader, Father Darklyte, the …
One alien leaves, another one moves in
Recently I was thinking about the idea the New X-Men in 1975 represent the start of the Bronze Age (as discussed here) and whether that perception is a generational thing. …
Rise and fall
Tony Isabella once wrote (IIRC at least) that what inspired him to write comics was reading Fantastic Four Annual #1 and noticing how much better it was than the previous …