The Batusi, the new dance craze sweeping DC comics!
The Batman TV show ā the one starring Adam West and Burt Ward, hopefully y’all are familiar with it ā hit the airwaves at the start of ’66. It didn’t …
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Blazing battle action, plus some questions: Fantastic Four Annual #4
The original Human Torch made his one-and-only Silver Age appearance battling Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four Annual #4. There are several aspects of the book that make it worth a …
The rest is still unwritten
This week I finished rereading the small number of New Mutants issues I still have (I gave a lot of stuff away some years back to a now-defunct program auctioning …
My hero, the brain-damaged thug: the odyssey of Guy Gardner
Guy Gardner is another example of how minor characters can become stars. After his debut in Green Lantern #59 he existed for years at the level of trivia-night questions (“Besides …
I looked at DC in September of ’66; now here’s Marvel
Back at the start of April I took a look at some of DC’s books from September of ’66. I wanted to follow up immediately with a Marvel-centered post but …
“A fact so dread,” he faintly said, “extinguishes all hope.”
(Title courtesy of Lewis Carroll. This is a repost from my blog last week). Netflix just announced that at the end of September, it will cease its DVD service. Iām …
It’s embarrassing that I missed this
I’ve been rereading my old X-Men ā that is, the Len Wein/Dave Cockrum-created New X-Men ā for a while now and recently reached X-Men #183. I remembered disliking it and …