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 …
Tag: Batman
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. …
The New Look is ending, Batman is changing
In 1965, the ad below informed DC readers Batman was getting a New Look (more discussion of the look here). The New Look got the Bat-books away from the science …
This kind of thing happens on Earth-B
Unlike Jay Garrick vs. Barry Allen or Alan Scott vs. Hal Jordan, there was never a clear dividing line between the Earth-2 and Earth-1 Batman. I don’t think there’s anything …
