Go Lem or Go Home: Marvel’s “Thing That Walks Like a Man”
I love mythology almost as much as I love comic books. Perhaps that’s not surprising as I encountered them both at a young impressionable age. Justice League of America #30 …
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Twentieth Century Geopolitics and East-West Relations in the Shadow of Dr. Fu Manchu
Rereading Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu series the past year or so (this is a rewritten 2011 post from my own blog) has been a fascinating experience. Not always the reading. …
They’re Maniaks, Maniaks at Your Door!
I would like to follow my title by saying “and you’re laughing like you’ve never laughed before!” but having read the Maniaks’ three Showcase tryout issues, I wasn’t. I doubt …
Oddball pulp and paperback covers
I love cover art, particularly from the days when the covers worked to reach out and grab you to make you buy them. But sometimes the effort to become interesting …
Superboy: The Farm Team of Steel?
One of the fun parts of rereading the Silver Age month by month is discovering stuff that never registered when I reread old issues or random reprints from the era. …
A retrospective on the career of President Prez Rickard: Prez, #1-4
Joe Simon created many loopy characters and ideas in the Bronze Age, but none more memorable than Prez. Most of them — The Outsiders, The Green Team — aren’t memorable …
What is truth? Is truth unchanging taste? Avengers #60
When I was in my teens I read an old copy of Avengers #60 and I thought it was fantastic. Rereading “Till Death Do Us Part” by John Buscema …