It was the summer of ’65. Here are some comics covers
No particular theme here other than picking covers I like, or that I at least find interesting. This Curt Swan cover is an excellent example of the drawbacks of Cover …
Tag: Batman
Cavemen, beast-bombs and an outsider: the weirder side of 1965 in Gotham City
As I mentioned last week, the New Look Batman era toned down the SF elements that Jack Schiff had pumped into Batman such as alien criminals. Weird changes either to …
Batman, right before Adam West
In January of 1966, Batman would debut on ABC TV, launching a craze that would make Batman DC’s biggest star and pump “camp” into DC’s comic book line. In 1965, …
Once was enough
Rereading old comics, I’m often surprised how frequently writers would create great villains, then stop using them. Not always, of course. The Joker has seen lots of use in every …
Damned with faint praise: Batman: Odyssey
Neal Adams was a very good artist and writer; let’s see if we can salvage anything from his most notorious output.
Daredevil gets old school, Superman gets furious: my last look at 1964.
Silver Age Marvel gets a lot of credit for telling stories that were more contemporary than old-fashioned DC. “Contemporary” is not how I’d describe Daredevil #5, in which he battles …
“To be continued …” stories from the end of 1964
Besides the Idol-Head of Diabolu, there were several other noteworthy plotlines left hanging at the end of 1964. One began in Detective Comics #334 where the Caped Crusader met “The …