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 …
Tag: DC Comics
Creating the worst character in DC history is an accomplishment of sorts.
According to any number of Silver Age buffs, DC’s Brother Power, The Geek is the worst character DC ever gave us.No question the story of a tailor’s dummy miraculously coming …
Clearly that’s the last we’ll hear of Animal Man or the Enchantress, am I right?
When DC shifted Julie Schwartz from Strange Adventures and Mystery in Space to Batman and Detective Comics, former Bat-editor Jack Schiff took over Schwartz’s science fiction comics. Just as Schiff …
BEM: Just like “Shazam!” only you know, not.
(Another old post I’m reposting because my Silver Age reread has caught up with it). Back in the Silver Age, DC was always including one-page features to help us kids …
Want a life of peril and adventure? Become an insurance adjuster!
In Green Lantern #49, John Broome and Gil Kane shook up the series by having Hal Jordan lose Carol Ferris forever, quit his job and split from Coast City. From …
Maniaks, Maniaks at your door!
I would like to follow my title by saying “and you’re laughing like you’ve never laughed before!” but having read the Maniaks’ three Showcase tryout issues, I wasn’t. I doubt …
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to untangle the continuity of Plastic Man
(Title is a paraphrased quote from DC’s Plastic Man #6). Courtesy of the DC app I recently read the first issue of DC’s Silver Age Plastic Man (November, 1966) for …