Stories from series I don’t usually like
One of the nice surprises about rereading the Silver Age is when comics series I don’t care for deliver a good issue. Three of the stories I’m looking at here …
Tag: Denny O’Neil
Sargon the Sorcerer fought the Creeper at the Battle of Jericho! Three from DC in ’69
Comics scribe Mike Friedrich was writing serious “relevant” stories pretty much from the get-go. As I said when I wrote about Teen Titans #19, it’s a surprise to find him …
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 …
Ditko, departed
In the summer of 1966, Marvel Comics suddenly went Steve Ditko-less. I’ve read a variety of reasons — money, locking horns with Stan Lee, fundamental disagreements about the series’ direction …
Wonder Woman: The messy end of the Diana Prince years
One thing about the “white pantsuit” era of Wonder Woman (though she didn’t wear that outfit half as much as people remember), it didn’t stick to a formula.After setting up …
A hip Amazon who swings? Wonder Woman begins the Diana Prince years
Some years back, I began rereading my run of Wonder Woman, which I do with most of my old comics eventually, and blogging about them, which I don’t usually do. …
