Superheroes in decline: Earth-Two comic books during and after WW II
(Reprinting the second of my posts about the comic-book industry as it exists in comics). As you can see above, Earth-Two’s Golden Age of comics probably looked a lot like …
Tag: Comic Books in Comics
“Joe, I got an idea — I think it’s the one we’ve been waiting for.”
(Seven years ago, I ran a series of blog posts about what the comic books of Earth-One, Earth-Two, Earth-616 were like. As my own writing or real-life events keep sucking …
“Stan, Dr. Doom’s suing us for libel. Oh, and our office just exploded”
How exactly do comics publishers in the MU and DCU survive? Here they are, printing stories about people who commit multiple murders on a whim, or freeze entire cities instantly. …
“My letter’s on the fan page!” Silver Age Marvel Comics on Earth-616
So as I described in my last post about the comic-book industry in comic-book worlds, Stan Lee in the 1950s was writing war, horror and Patsy Walker comics for Marvel …
“I didn’t know Future Man used a life battery!” Marvel Comics on Earth-616
Where DC Comics only occasionally showed us what the DCU’s Silver Age comics were like, Marvel wasted no time establishing Earth-616 had its own version of Marvel Comics, publishing their …
After the Crisis: Comic Books on DC’s Post-Crisis Earth
Crisis on Infinite Earths not only upended DC’s continuity, it upended the Earth-One and Earth Two comic-book industries. In the aftermath of the multiverse merging, comics changed radically and ended …
Earth One, where comic books are just like ours, only different
Roy Thomas transformed Earth-One’s comic books without even trying. Or probably even thinking about it. Up until Thomas wrote All-Star Squadron, it was canon that Earth-One in the 1940s had …