Women problems: the comics of 1968 had them
1968 was not a good year to be a woman in superhero comics. Ever since Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne returned to the Avengers in #28, the team has …
Tag: Avengers
Rise and fall
Tony Isabella once wrote (IIRC at least) that what inspired him to write comics was reading Fantastic Four Annual #1 and noticing how much better it was than the previous …
Reprise: Black knights in white satin
Once again my Silver Age rereading has caught up with a post (from almost exactly two years ago) so I’m reposting. This time it’s about the strange Silver Age career …
Marvel in late ’67: Part One
I’ve been meeting to post about several different Marvel books and keep getting distracted by other topics. This and a follow-up post next week should get me caught up.Amazing Spider-Man …
Another bit of Silver Age deconstruction
As I mentioned last year, Batman #166 was one of the earliest times I’ve seen a superhero book deconstruct superhero cliches, pointing out the absurdity of putting Batman (or by …
Why talk when you can punch people?
The 1966 JLA/JSA team-up I mentioned in last week’s Batmania post is not one of the best of those Silver Age events. The main plot involves superheroes, supervillains and ordinary …
Oh Wasp, where is thy story logic?
Having read a couple of stories from July ’65 this weekend, I thought I’d do a quick add-on to Monday’s post. Avengers #18, “When the Commissar Commands” was the first …