I’ll never be a war comics fan—
But damn, this add for Our Army At War #203 makes me want to rush out and buy it. Cover art by Joe Kubert of course. #SFWAPro.
Tag: DC Comics
The most important woman in Batman’s life
That was the theme of Batman #208, one of DC’s 80-page giants. Lots of these reprint issues had themes: Flash’s most treacherous traps, the Dynamic Duo’s adventures in time and …
Women in love, women in action
I haven’t tackled romance comics in my Silver Age reread because I never read them as a kid (I did as a tween, hoping they’d offer some insight into this …
Hard times create strange heroes: new ideas from DC in the late Silver Age
As I said recently, the late 1960s were a tough time to be DC Comics. They’d been the top dog in the industry for most of their existence; now their …
Superman, Cain and Quasimodo! Random oddities from the comics of late 1968.
Action #368 and 369 by Otto Binder and Curt Swan reminded me how some of Otto Binder’s Superman Family work resembles his Captain Marvel days. Scenes of cops sitting around …
Leaving soon from Netflix, er DC Comics. And not soon, this was 1968!
Monday we said goodbye to comics legend Gardner Fox. He wasn’t the only creator and character leaving DC as the 1960s approached their end. John Broome stuck around but wrote …
Fox on the run
Late 1968 must have been a scary time at DC. Since the Golden Age, they’d been top dog in comic books. Now Marvel was making steady gains and the massive …