Big news about a small superhero: The Silver Age Atom
My Silver Age reread has given me fresh appreciation from how well Julius Schwartz, Gardner Fox and Gil Kane rebooted the Golden Age Atom. More precisely, how they made this …
‘Super Sunday’
Mark Hennessy wasn’t sure how it started; perhaps it was the way his colleagues at Channel 8 smirked when his name was mentioned, even when he was standing near enough …
Two items of note
Item the First: Alan Grant has died at 73. Grant was never the biggest writer in comics, but he knew how to write comics very well, and he wrote quite …
Look back, but don’t stare
On the text page in 1987s Airboy and Mr. Monster Special, comics writer Gerard Jones quoted baseball player Satchell Paige (“”It’s okay to look back. Just don’t stare.”) to describe …
Mercy-killing comic books
One bad thing about rereading the Silver Age is that it includes reading stuff that I don’t particularly like.Sgt. Fury, for example, was sometimes billed as the “the war comic …