Daredevil, Thor, the Teen Titans: short notes from the Silver Age
While it’s fun going into detail about particular issues or trends as I reread the Silver Age, 1965 has simply more going on than I can blog in detail about. …
Tag: DC Comics
I Ching Is the Book of Changes and Wonder Woman Certainly Changed
The reboot that turned Wonder Woman into Diana Prince, martial artist, crimefighter and adventurer, began with a four issue arc from Wonder Woman #179 through #182. #178 showed Diana Prince …
A hip Amazon who swings? Wonder Woman begins the Diana Prince years
Some years back, I began rereading my run of Wonder Woman, which I do with most of my old comics eventually, and blogging about them, which I don’t usually do. …
They just didn’t get it
Anyone out there remember Strikeforce: Morituri? This 1986 series by Peter Gillis and Brent Eric Anderson is set in a near-future world where the alien Horde have Earth under their …
August, 1965: Bondage comics
No, not the Wonder Woman kind of bondage.I mean “bond-age” as in the Age of James Bond. After Goldfinger came out in ’64, spies were suddenly cooler than they’d ever …
It was the summer of ’65. Here are some comics covers
No particular theme here other than picking covers I like, or that I at least find interesting. This Curt Swan cover is an excellent example of the drawbacks of Cover …
Big news about a small superhero: The Silver Age Atom
My Silver Age reread has given me fresh appreciation from how well Julius Schwartz, Gardner Fox and Gil Kane rebooted the Golden Age Atom. More precisely, how they made this …