What took them so long?
If there’s one thing we know about the Golden Age, it’s that publishers chased trends even more than they do now. Superman spawned more superheroes. Batman bred an endless string …
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Doom, Don Heck, the Thing and More: Marvel in 1964
As part of my Silver Age reread I got to Fantastic Four Annual #2 and is it ever a game-changer. It’s the issue that gave us Doom’s backstory as a …
Batman splits from Superman, then fights … Hydra? More from ’64
Following on Monday’s Bat-post, there are a couple more Batman stories from 1964 I wanted to talk about. First, from World’s Finest Comics #143, we have a story that asks …
Crime clowns and deconstructed deathtraps: notes from Batman’s New Look era
As I approach the end of 1964 in my Silver Age rereading, I keep meaning to do one humongous post about all the 1964 stuff I want to cover. But …
Darker than Deathstroke: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
Writing about Identity Crisis last week, I complained that I often found comics attempts at doing hard-edged, “this is the real world, we can’t play fair” stories as naive as …
Return with me now to the thrilling days of 1964!
1964 was a big year for green people at the Big Two. Hulk, after a couple of years bouncing in and out of various Marvel books, got his own series …
The downward spiral of Arthur Light, Ph.D. (final Identity Crisis post)
Some comic book characters find eternal fame right from the start. Some rise from obscurity to become legends: John Stewart made one appearance in 1971, a few more Bronze Age …