Comic books do not exist in a vacuum. Unless you screwed up while housecleaning
Superhero comic books, like any form of art, do not exist on a spiritual plane untouched by the real world. Sometimes, like Hawk and the Dove or Brother Power, the …
Tag: DC Comics
Superboy shattered! Batman becomes Robin! Captain America mourns Bucky! Wonder Woman forgets her mother’s birthday! And more!
Time for another random selection of stories. Most of them are from late 1968 as part of my Silver Age reread but the three at the end are earlier, taken …
I thought Joe Simon’s work on Prez was bizarre. Then I reread Brother Power the Geek
I’ve joked for years that judging by Prez and other books Joe Simon wrote in the 1970s, he’d gotten into some really good drugs. By comparison with Prez, Brother Power, …
I have to know, did Captain Action survive his first issue?
When last we left Captain Action, the Man of Mythology, he was in bad shape. If anyone lost sleep over his fate don’t worry, it’s going to be okay. The …
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 …
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 …