The fox of justice: Three yarns by Gardner F. Fox
Gardner Fox wrote the first comic book I ever read, Justice League of America #30. He is without question, one of my favorite all-time comics writers and in hindsight wrote …
Category: Fraser Sherman
Did you know that sex sells?
And nobody knows that better than paperback cover illustrators, as you’ll see. First, this one by Roger Kastel.Here’s an uncredited cover that implies something really scandalous. My online research hasn’t …
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 …
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 …