Why talk when you can punch people?
The 1966 JLA/JSA team-up I mentioned in last week’s Batmania post is not one of the best of those Silver Age events. The main plot involves superheroes, supervillains and ordinary …
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One odd issue: Tales of Suspense #84
Coming late in 1966, Tales of Suspense #84 isn’t a bad issue but it’s a very odd one. The first story, “The Other Iron Man” (Stan Lee, Gene Colan) has …
The Batusi, the new dance craze sweeping DC comics!
The Batman TV show — the one starring Adam West and Burt Ward, hopefully y’all are familiar with it — hit the airwaves at the start of ’66. It didn’t …
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 …