Just when it was getting good!
I’ve mentioned before that including Sgt. Fury in my Silver Age Reread hasn’t changed my feelings about the book. Which are negative, despite some striking moments like this one (courtesy …
Category: Fraser Sherman
Crime was never as organized as this!
I think it was reading Future Quest, based on Greg Hatcher’s recommendation, that got me thinking of how many spy cartels were operating in 1960s fiction. Blame of course, goes …
Creating the worst character in DC history is an accomplishment of sorts.
According to any number of Silver Age buffs, DC’s Brother Power, The Geek is the worst character DC ever gave us.No question the story of a tailor’s dummy miraculously coming …
Clearly that’s the last we’ll hear of Animal Man or the Enchantress, am I right?
When DC shifted Julie Schwartz from Strange Adventures and Mystery in Space to Batman and Detective Comics, former Bat-editor Jack Schiff took over Schwartz’s science fiction comics. Just as Schiff …
BEM: Just like “Shazam!” only you know, not.
(Another old post I’m reposting because my Silver Age reread has caught up with it). Back in the Silver Age, DC was always including one-page features to help us kids …
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In Green Lantern #49, John Broome and Gil Kane shook up the series by having Hal Jordan lose Carol Ferris forever, quit his job and split from Coast City. From …
Art, webs and more: somewhat random thoughts connected to Spider-Man.
One thing I’ve learned rereading the Silver Age is what a mixed bag the “Marvel method” — assigning the artists the lion’s share of the plotting — turned out to …