A couple of quick images from the comics of 1970
First, this Neal Adams shot [edited to get name right] from Thor #179. It’s not a great story: Loki swaps minds with Thor and Odin can’t help because he’s sealed …
Tag: Captain Marvel
Famous firsts
As I’ve mentioned before, both DC or Marvel were off their game as the Silver Age approached its end. DC’s trying anything and everything to make up for the sales …
I wish I could quit you, man of the Kree!
I’m not a fan of the early Silver Age Captain Marvel. When I first encountered the series as part of my Silver Age reread I thought it was mediocre — …
The secret to a failed reboot is — reboot some more? Captain Marvel #17
Captain Marvel #11-17 read now like a prophecy of DC post-crisis: the solution to boosting sales is a drastic reboot. Followed by another drastic reboot. And then another. Marvel Comics …
Captains in transition (Col. Fury too)
A perennial problem in comic-book storytelling is that the storytellers keep changing. Sometimes the series whipsaws in unpredictable and unsuccessful directions. Sometimes one writer’s plans get axed by their replacement. …
Superboy shattered! Batman becomes Robin! Captain America mourns Bucky! Wonder Woman forgets her mother’s birthday! And more!
Time for another random selection of stories. Most of them are from late 1968 as part of my Silver Age reread but the three at the end are earlier, taken …
One alien leaves, another one moves in
Recently I was thinking about the idea the New X-Men in 1975 represent the start of the Bronze Age (as discussed here) and whether that perception is a generational thing. …