Why yes, Roy, you were making a statement: Avengers #83
Marvel’s first story about racial conflict was Avengers #32 (correct me if I’ve missed one). Stan Lee and Don Heck (who did the cover) introduce us to the Sons of the …
Save the environment! And the Native Americans! And the Chicago Seven! More relevance
One thing you can say about the relevant stories of the late Silver/early Bronze Age is that writers had no shortage of issues to choose from. By late 1970 writers …
Holy crap! Reading comics can make me a tall, guitar-playing karate master with a he-man voice who works as a game warden!
I was going through Avengers #83 for my Silver Age reread — it’s one of those where I have the original issue — but once I got past the John …
Honor and glory in a time long past
Another couple of random book reviews from my own blog. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic by Joanne Freeman shows how the political leaders of the Revolutionary …
