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 …
Category: Fraser Sherman
Sabertooth cats and alien insects
My Silver Age reread is now into January, 1966, which brings me to Daredevil’s encounter with Ka-Zar in Daredevil #12. I’ll have more to say about it when I complete …
Surprisingly grim for 1965
Tales of Suspense #73 has Gene Colan take over the art/plotting on Iron Man from Don Heck and it’s an immediate improvement. Heck was never comfortable with doing the plotting …
So why Hammett?
I really like the cover for this collection —— but why pick Dashiell Hammett to select the stories (or stick his name on the cover even if he didn’t)? While …
The batshit racist character find of 1965: Egg Fu!
(This is a repost from my own blog from 2016. I see no need to re-evaluate my 2016 assessment of Egg Fu). So having finished Showcase Presents Wonder Woman Vol. …
DC’s sensational character finds of 1965!
(Or more precisely the end of 1964 through the beginning of 1966, going, as usual, by cover dates). One of the joys of my Silver Age reread is when I …
The blackest Bond: Live and Let Die
1973’s Live and Let Die is a reminder that the course of any serialized entertainment — comics, TV, film series — is often dictated by outside events and backstage struggles …