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 …
Tag: DC Comics
“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 …
And your writers shall see visions: writing superheroes in the DC Multiverse
When Flash #123 established Jay Garrick was as real as Barry Allen it changed the direction of the DC universe. It also established that at least some comic-book writers in …
Superheroes in decline: Earth-Two comic books during and after WW II
(Reprinting the second of my posts about the comic-book industry as it exists in comics). As you can see above, Earth-Two’s Golden Age of comics probably looked a lot like …
Fashions of the future
As I blogged about back in September, a Legion of Superheroes fan named Kim Metzger hated Saturn Girl’s costume and submitted a redesign. The change immediately attracted a flood of …
Groundbreakers and dead ends, swords and sorcerers
As I mentioned last week, Captain Comet could have jump-started the Silver Age, but instead he went nowhere, After debuting in 1951 in Strange Adventures #9, his series in Strange Adventures ran …
I hear it coming. I can feel it in my bones
(Title is from the lyrics to Crystal Gayle’s “Our Love Is on the Faultine,” in case you were wondering). I’m pleased with DC’s new DC Finest reprint line. So far I’ve …