In the Bronze Age, the past wasn’t dead. It wasn’t even past
As I’ve mentioned before, the early Bronze Age was an age of reprints. By 1971 DC, in particular, was all in. For the comics cover-dated August 1971, they raised the …
Tag: DC Comics
You got horror comics in my love comics! And my war comics! And my superhero books!
As I blogged about last year, the Bronze Age horror-comics revival began in 1968 when DC rebootedĀ House of Mystery into its definitive form, with Cain as caretaker, landlord to ill-fated …
The shape of comics to come
Flash #209 (cover by Dick Giordano), cover-dated September, 1971, was a landmark issue. Not that I’d have known it at the time, even if I’d picked it up new (I …
It suddenly occurs to me that bronze and silver are not the same metal
Back in 2022, I settled on March 1972 as the cutoff for my ongoing Silver Age reread. In the grand scheme of things it’s not a particularly significant month. It …
Ditko and his inkers
Ditko may have been his own best inker, but quite a few others were no slouches, either.
Not a dream, not a hoax, not an imaginary story ā I guess it must be true!
“Not a dream, not a hoax, not an imaginary story!” In the Silver Age putting that or similar phrasing on a cover was a way to telegraph that no matter …
After the Crisis: Comic Books on New Earth after COIE
Crisis on Infinite Earths not only upended DCās continuity, it upended the Earth-One and Earth-Two comic-book industries. In the aftermath of the multiverse merging, comics changed radically and ended up …