Roy Thomas reaches beyond comics—maybe Neal Adams does too
By 1969, Roy Thomas has already begun reviving the Golden Age heroes he love so much. However his story inspirations reach well beyond comics, as the books I’m looking at …
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #197: ‘December Cross-Hatchings … In the Stacks’
You know what time it is!
The Dead Sea Scrolls never caused this much trouble: the Tablet Saga
The Tablet Saga in Amazing Spider-Man ran much longer than I expected. Otherwise there’d be no point in calling it a saga — though to the best of my knowledge, …
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #196: ‘Weekend with the Review Pile (Videogames Edition)’
Let’s go even deeper into your mom’s basement!
I have become as all-seeing as the mighty Ka-Bala!
Y’all remember Ka-Bala, the mysterious toy with the power to predict the future? While I cannot predict the outcome of baseball games or someone’s love life, years of immersing myself …
Marvel’s also open to flinging stuff at the wall
I’ve blogged several times about how DC in the late 1960s was desperately trying new things to see what would work (most of it didn’t). Bat Lash. Deadman. Hawk and …
