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 …
Tag: DC Comics
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 …
Wanna know a secret? The original Secret Six
As my Silver Age reread is now sliding into 1970, I’m writing about Secret Six a little late. #1 of the original series by that name came out cover-dated April/May …
Famous firsts
As I’ve mentioned before, both DC or Marvel were off their game as the Silver Age approached its end. DC’s trying anything and everything to make up for the sales …
Plugging a gap with a zap!
As I mentioned a few months back, when Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes swapped books, it cut the LSH out of my Silver Age reread. Following Action Comics #376, the Legion …
I’d say I’m posting this as a textbook example of its genre, but mostly I found it funny
Anyone who’s read Silver Age DC Comics knows they filled up space with gag strips written and drawn by Henry Boltinoff, brother to DC editor Murray Boltinoff. As a kid …
I have become as all-seeing as the mighty Ka-Bala!
Y’all remember Ka-Bala, the mysterious toy with the power to predict the future? While I cannot predict the outcome of baseball games or someone’s love life, years of immersing myself …