Fox, Lee, Kirby: Writing in the Silver Age
Once Marvel began publishing superhero comics in the Silver Age, the differences between the Marvel and DC styles firmed up quickly. Most of the DC stories I remember fondly give …
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The Kiss of the Kobra
Back in 2014 (this is a repost from my own blog that year), as part of rereading my comics collection, I came across a Kobra story from the 1990s. On …
What we have here is a hawk and a dove …
John Byrne is notorious for claiming that nobody but the creators of the major comics characters (e.g. Siegel and Shuster, Lee and Kirby) truly understands them, so everyone else who …
With Apologies to Blue Oyster Cult, Don’t Fear (The Creeper)
Steve Ditko’s Beware the Creeper was nowhere near as good a series as his Shade, the Changing Man, but it’s been far more successful. It only lasted six issues, but …
Steve Ditko’s Shade: The First Changing Man
Steve Ditko’s Bronze Age series Shade, The Changing Man has definitely been overshadowed by the later Vertigo reboot. That’s a shame — it’s easily my favorite of Ditko’s DC work. Rac …
So maybe they should have kept his secret origin secret? Comet the Super-Horse
Some origins are just so right, they’re classic. Superman, last survivor of a doomed planet, fighting to defend his adopted homeworld. Batman, avenging the murder of his parents by waging …
The shipping of Lex and Lois
I recently reached July of 1962 in my Silver Age reread and I discovered this cover on Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane #34. I don’t have the “great imaginary novel” but …