Call the Captain — Action!
(Once again, my Silver Age reread has caught up with something I posted about two years back. As I’m pressed for time, that’s what you get today and Wednesday) My …
Tag: DC Comics
His doom was sealed in his second issue: the Silver Age Spectre
As I blogged about several years ago, the Spectre’s 1966 Silver Age debut had an absolutely mesmerizing cover, all the more mesmerizing because I missed it on the spinner rack. …
The Three R’s: Robbins, Robin and Relevance
“One Bullet Too Many” in 1969’s Batman #217 (Frank Robbins, Irv Novick) is the story I think of as the end of the New Look Batman and the beginning of …
Timelessness and relevance
I don’t remember what prompted it but a couple of years back my friend Ross Bagby and I got into a discussion of how a lot of 20th century fiction …
The fox of justice: Three yarns by Gardner F. Fox
Gardner Fox wrote the first comic book I ever read, Justice League of America #30. He is without question, one of my favorite all-time comics writers and in hindsight wrote …
Raising Cain
Rereading the Silver Age has taught me repeatedly that my memory is fallible. Even so, sometimes my errors surprise me.I have a crystal-clear memory what happened after Dial H for …
A new face of 1968 — and a new Earth too!
Debuting in Amazing Spider-Man #56 (Stan Lee, John Romita), Captain George Stacy is an excellent example of something I blogged about a few weeks back, that major changes to comics …