The sensational DC promotions of 1966!
One of the fun things about rereading Silver Age comic books rather than reprints is the ads. DC and Marvel would both try their level best to convince you that …
Category: Fraser Sherman
Now that’s realism!
As I’ve said before, the Silver Age origin of the Teen Titans is sheer elegance in its simplicity: they realized teenagers sometimes needed superheroes in their corner so they formed …
My favorite Christmas cover
Nick Cardy’s cover for Teen Titans #13, “A Swingin’ Christmas Carol,” just works for me. Maybe it’s the oddity of having the Titans trapped in a Christmas-tree shaped pile of …
They should never have called him mutie!
Don’t make Santa angry. You won’t like him when he gets angry.Probably my all-time favorite thing by Keith Giffen. #SFWApro.
Even Lois Lane would find this cringeworthy
As I said on Monday, Marvel upped its game amazingly between Fantastic Four #1 and the end of 1965. Stan Lee and his collaborators had become masters of continual narrative …
Marvel in 1965: As good as the legend says
Rereading the Silver Age the past few years, I finally appreciate why so many people revered Marvel back in the day. Not that I disliked Marvel myself but I was …
The writer is not the story
Even though I’m well aware Victorian society wasn’t as prim and respectable as many people imagine, Thomas Boyle’s Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead: Beneath the Surface of Victorian …