It suddenly occurs to me that bronze and silver are not the same metal
Back in 2022, I settled on March 1972 as the cutoff for my ongoing Silver Age reread. In the grand scheme of things it’s not a particularly significant month. It …
Tag: DC Comics
Ditko and his inkers
Ditko may have been his own best inker, but quite a few others were no slouches, either.
Not a dream, not a hoax, not an imaginary story — I guess it must be true!
“Not a dream, not a hoax, not an imaginary story!” In the Silver Age putting that or similar phrasing on a cover was a way to telegraph that no matter …
After the Crisis: Comic Books on New Earth after COIE
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 up …
Challenge the unknown and ask the question
Which question? Well, that depends on your choice of unknown. As we all know, comic books are full of loose ends. Plots that never got resolved because the creative team …
Earth-One Comics 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 …
“Batman? Are you named for that guy in the funny books?” The Earth-One Paradox
As we all know, when Barry Allen first popped over to Earth-Two in Flash #123 he discovered the 1940s Golden Age Flash he’d grown up reading about was a real …