Amazing Spider-Man Omnibi part 1
The Amazing Spider-Man omnibuses collected the first hundred issues of the series. Here are some of my thoughts on them.
Tag: Batman
More pages from late 1966
As I’ve mentioned before, Batman #189 brought back the Scarecrow after twenty-three years of obscurity. He would become a regular foe of the Dark Knight from that point on. The …
The Batusi, the new dance craze sweeping DC comics!
The Batman TV show — the one starring Adam West and Burt Ward, hopefully y’all are familiar with it — hit the airwaves at the start of ’66. It didn’t …
Old Man Yells at Cloud #1: What the heck is going on in ‘Batman’ #900?
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In the summer of 1966, titans fell (and other stuff happened)
Okay, “titans fell” is a clickbait exaggeration. House of Secrets was never a Silver Age titan and Mystery In Space dropped in quality after Jack Schiff took it over from …
She’s pretty as a daisy — but look out, man, she’s crazy!
Title courtesy of the Coasters’ old song, “Poison Ivy,” which tells you whose debut I’m about to discuss.Despite Bob Kane’s signature, the art for Poison Ivy’s debut in Batman #181 …
The sensational DC promotions of 1966!
One of the fun things about rereading Silver Age comic books rather than reprints is the ads. DC and Marvel would both try their level best to convince you that …