Love changes everything. Except when it doesn’t.
Monday I wrote about Marvel superheroes and their love interests as of mid-1971. DC didn’t play up the personal drama as much as Marvel (nor usually as well) but as …
Tag: Denny O’Neil
Groundbreakers and dead ends, swords and sorcerers
As I mentioned last week, Captain Comet could have jump-started the Silver Age, but instead he went nowhere, After debuting in 1951 in Strange Adventures #9, his series in Strange Adventures ran …
Kryptonite is gone! Can anything stop Superman now?
Following up on Monday’s post on reboots, here’s one of the biggest of the early Bronze Age — because it was Superman. Rebooting the Black Widow is one thing; making …
Save the environment! And the Native Americans! And the Chicago Seven! More relevance
One thing you can say about the relevant stories of the late Silver/early Bronze Age is that writers had no shortage of issues to choose from. By late 1970 writers …
This post is an excuse
For what, you ask? Well, to post this Marshall Rogers cover as part of my Silver Age Reread. I’m sorry I couldn’t get it in as one photo but it’s …
Wheelies! Captain America and Black Canary become easy riders
As I keep saying (and most of you know without me saying it), comics do not exist in a vacuum. Writers draw their inspirations from what’s going on around them, …
Thinning the herd
In blogging last week about the Silver-to-Bronze Age transition, one thing I didn’t talk much about is the stuff we didn’t see in the early Bronze Age. That is, the …