Nanananananaaa, Batman! Wait, he’s dark and spooky now
Early Bronze Age Batman isn’t my favorite era of the Darknight Detective by any means. It is not, however, a bad era, and it’s fascinating to watch Batman’s continued transition …
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Not just Neal Adams: Batman in December of 1969
“Secret of the Waiting Graves” in Detective Comics #395 marked the beginning of the Neal Adams/Denny O’Neil era of Batman, successor to the Silver Age’s New Look. While O’Neil and …
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them
(Another repost from my own blog) The title is a quote from Malvolio in Twelfth Night, a role I got to play in a local production many years ago (and …
Batman gets a new car! No, it’s not his midlife crisis.
With Batman #217, cover-dated December 1969, the New Look era of Batman ended. The Dark Knight era of the 1970s began. The New Look era launched in 1964 to juice …
A senator’s been shot! Not only that, Oliver Queen has a beard!
If any DC hero seemed destined to vanish into obscurity in 1969, it was Green Arrow. The Ace Archer had never had his own book. His World’s Finest backup feature ended …
Let’s talk women, shall we?
Once again I’m looking at women appearing in comics, DC Comics specifically. Some of these stories from 1969 are good, some dreadful, one a major event. First, the good one. …