Oh Wasp, where is thy story logic?
Having read a couple of stories from July ’65 this weekend, I thought I’d do a quick add-on to Monday’s post. Avengers #18, “When the Commissar Commands” was the first …
Category: Fraser Sherman
A Bite of “The Apple”
I love the original Star Trek very much but I don’t deny its flaws, some of which Greg Hatcher discussed here. Along with flaws in the philosophy and political arguments …
Marvel 1965: a shared universe, a man-fish, a pointless engagement
My Silver Age reread is up to June 1965 at this point and the Marvel Universe is definitely a thing. It’s not like Stan Lee and the rest of the …
A bit of the past I still don’t get
In my Silver Age Reread, I’ve made use of my old comics, reprint comic books, TPB collections and most recently the DC and Marvel apps. Much as I prefer reading …
Getting past 90 is a good run, but still …
So I got the word this afternoon that my high-school drama teacher, Jo Yeager, died yesterday. Even though we haven’t been in touch regularly — I skipped two years of …
When last we left our hero, Captain Action …
As you may recall from my previous post, the first issue of Captain Action culminates in Clive Arno, Mythological Manhunter, going down at the hands of his archfoe, Krellik. It’s …
His name is synonymous with action — no, wait, his name IS Action!
My memory of DC’s 1968-69 Captain Action series was that it had two great issues by Jim Shooter, one horribly written issue by Gil Kane — and two issues of …