He’s not the chosen one: Kamandi, the last boy on Earth
(This being a repost from my own blog) Jack Kirby’s Bronze Age series, Kamandi, Last Boy on Earth is the only post-Fourth World book of his besides Eternals that impressed …
Tag: DC Comics
Lo, there shall come changes (but small ones)
The big change in Fantastic Four #61 (Stan Lee, Jack Kirby) was supposed to be the Sandman. The costume upgrade on the cover is only part of it. As the …
No longer invincible? The Justice League in 1966 and ’67
For some reason, Gardner Fox in late ’66 and on into the following year — Justice League of America #50 through #55 — decided it would be interesting if he …
DC’s Batman in 1967
When I was a kid, the Batman TV show was amazingly cool. A superhero, right there on the TV, and in live action! I hadn’t seen the George Reeves Superman …
Things I didn’t get into
Comic books of the Silver Age were, of course, rife with ads and many of them sounded so amazingly cool. X-ray spectacles! A tank full of tiny sea monkeys! Foolproof …
Zha-Vam! Say his name and Superman still shakes!
(Once again reposting something I wrote earlier to fit it into my Silver Age reread) For years, I’ve suffered the frustration of having Action #351 and #353 — the first and last …
Crime was never as organized as this!
I think it was reading Future Quest, based on Greg Hatcher’s recommendation, that got me thinking of how many spy cartels were operating in 1960s fiction. Blame of course, goes …