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In Green Lantern #49, John Broome and Gil Kane shook up the series by having Hal Jordan lose Carol Ferris forever, quit his job and split from Coast City. From …
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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 …
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 …
Now that I think about it, this is quite remarkable
Last week I read the Tom King/Greg Smallwood Human Target Vol. 1. I don’t like King’s work much — I wouldn’t have touched this if it wasn’t at my local library …
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 …
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, …
Comics You Should Own – ‘Detective Comics’ #569-574
Holy Gutenberg, kids! It’s Mike Barr and Alan Davis doing Batman!