Adventure Comics #395 as a time capsule
Robert Kanigher’s first story in Adventure Comics #395 (cover by Curt Swam) is a product of its time — not so much the story itself but a couple of images. …
Tag: DC Comics
If the Bronze Age begins in a forest and nobody reads it, are the pages blank?
Going by cover dates, my Silver Age reread is now up to the summer of 1970 (though I still have some earlier stuff to catch up on). We’ve seen at …
Losers, robots and spiders
As I’ve mentioned before in this Silver Age reread, I’ve never been a war comics fan, and I was barely reading any comics from the start of ’69 until 1972. …
Not just Neal Adams: Batman in December of 1969
“Secret of the Waiting Graves” in Detective Comics #395 marked the beginning of the Neal Adams/Denny O’Neil era of Batman, successor to the Silver Age’s New Look. While O’Neil and …
The horror — the horror!
When the superhero genre bit the dust at the end of the 1940s — as y’all know, Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman were the only heroes to keep their books …
Contrary to The Who, the kids are not alright
At the end of the 1960s, youth seemed to be running wild in a way it never had before. The 20th century had already transformed America’s idea of youth by …
Batman gets a new car! No, it’s not his midlife crisis.
With Batman #217, cover-dated December 1969, the New Look era of Batman ended. The Dark Knight era of the 1970s began. The New Look era launched in 1964 to juice …