JFK, Blown Away
Blogging about conspiracy theories Monday brought to mind one chapter of my Screen Enemies of the American Way, discussing the way movies and TV have handled John F. Kennedy’s assassination, …
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Paranoia, paranoia everybody’s coming to get me
Working on my book about paranoia in film, I inevitably wound up reading a lot about it in real life. Not clinical paranoia but political paranoia. As the historian Richard …
In the summer of 1966, titans fell (and other stuff happened)
Okay, “titans fell” is a clickbait exaggeration. House of Secrets was never a Silver Age titan and Mystery In Space dropped in quality after Jack Schiff took it over from …
Now that I think about it, this is quite remarkable
Last week I read the Tom King/Greg Smallwood Human Target Vol. 1. I don’t like King’s work much — I wouldn’t have touched this if it wasn’t at my local library …
The dullest conspiracy ever conceived by the mind of man!
Several years ago (this is another post reprinted from my own blog) I wrote a movie book called Screen Enemies of the American Way, spotlighting movies and TV built around …
More advertising from DC’s Silver Age
Back in January I posted about some of DC’s experimental promotions in early 1966. My Silver Age rereading has since made it through the summer of that year and DC’s …
Ditko, departed
In the summer of 1966, Marvel Comics suddenly went Steve Ditko-less. I’ve read a variety of reasons — money, locking horns with Stan Lee, fundamental disagreements about the series’ direction …