Steve Ditko’s Shade: The First Changing Man
Steve Ditko’s Bronze Age series Shade, The Changing ManĀ has definitely been overshadowed by the later Vertigo reboot. That’s a shame ā it’s easily my favorite of Ditko’s DC work. Rac …
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Lois Lane and the Circus of Crime: two short posts, combined
“Half a Superman” inĀ Action #290 (writer unknown, art by Curt Swan) demonstrates that as much as the Silver Age liked to humiliate and mock Lois Lane, she was never “galactically …
So maybe they should have kept his secret origin secret? Comet the Super-Horse
Some origins are just so right, they’re classic. Superman, last survivor of a doomed planet, fighting to defend his adopted homeworld. Batman, avenging the murder of his parents by waging …
You’re a wonder, Wonder Family!
Looking back from 2021, the Wonder Family era of Wonder Woman is just an amusing bit of comics trivia, as minor as Marvel’s Golem or the Maniaks. In their day, …
The shipping of Lex and Lois
I recently reached July of 1962 in my Silver Age reread and I discovered this cover on Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane #34.Ā I don’t have the “great imaginary novel” but …
Kirby von Daniken: The Eternals
As I said in my Omac post, I didn’t care for most of Kirby’s Bronze Age work but The Eternals was an exception. Rereading them in TPB recently confirmed it …
Call Him B’Wana
The Silver Age super-hero BāWana Beast (Beast Master more or less) is, as they say these days, āproblematic.ā In 1967, when much of Africa had declared independence from the West, …