Cover date: July, 1964
Now that Alien Visitors is in the tank, I can resume my Silver Age rereading. This week I picked up where I left off, with comics cover-dated July 1964. This …
Tag: DC Comics
Fate Is the Doctor
Reading the Golden Age Doctor Fate Archive a few years ago (this is another of my re-edited posts from my own blog) made me appreciate, again, how futile it is …
The Sandman that time forgot
(As I don’t have the clear head to do any writing on my aliens book right now, here’s another repost from my own blog). Everyone nerdy enough to read our …
No, comics did not suddenly decline in quality as I got older
(Another post rewritten from four years ago on my blog) When I read some recent, particularly crappy comic from the Big Two it’s easy to grumble about how Kids These …
“Say his name and even Superman shakes!”
For years, I’ve suffered the frustration of having Action #351 and #353 — the first and last parts of a continued story — without the middle section. Just last week, I rectified …
Will they save the comic-book Western — or ruin it? Bat Lash and Scalphunter
Back in 1968, I kept seeing ads asking “Bat Lash—Will He Save the West or Ruin It?” I had no clue who or what Bat Lash was, and no way …
Whatever gods there be: theology in the DCU and MU
If you don’t think about it much, the Marvel and DC universes look like they have Christianity as their operating system. We’ve seen Heaven, often depicted with pearly gates. It …