A retrospective on the career of President Prez Rickard: Prez, #1-4
Joe Simon created many loopy characters and ideas in the Bronze Age, but none more memorable than Prez. Most of them — The Outsiders, The Green Team — aren’t memorable …
Tag: DC Comics
DC’s Second Golden Age
When comics fans talk about “DC Rebirth,” they mean the branding from a couple of years back. But whenever I hear the expression, I always think of a different time from decades ago.
Beowulf met Dracula? That would have made English class much cooler!
Edit Post When Marvel launched Conan the Barbarian in 1970, it was a game-changer. Roy Thomas had seen fan letters asking for a Conan book and he knew there was …
My Golden Age Was 8…. No, Wait, It Was 13… No, It Was….
As many comics fans and professionals alike are speculating about the latest DC Implosion, and WHAT IT ALL MEANS, I got to reminiscing about the comics publisher that literally shaped the course of my life.
Flying gorillas weren’t enough?
I assume the Gardner Fox/Carmine Infantino/Murphy Anderson story “The Flying Gorilla Menace” from Strange Adventures #125 was one of their “cover first, story later” creations. If so, they put far …
Things I cannot believe
There are lots of things in comics I don’t bat an eye at. Superman lifting up apartment buildings so he can peer into the lead-lined basement? Cool. Batman getting knocked …
There’s no “I” in team: Patterns in DC’s Silver Age non-super teams
In hindsight, everyone agrees that Jack Kirby’s 1956 creation of the Challengers of the Unknown was a dry run for what he and Stan Lee perfected five years later when …