The shape of comics to come
Flash #209 (cover by Dick Giordano), cover-dated September, 1971, was a landmark issue. Not that I’d have known it at the time, even if I’d picked it up new (I …
Tag: Flash
And your writers shall see visions: writing superheroes in the DC Multiverse
When Flash #123 established Jay Garrick was as real as Barry Allen it changed the direction of the DC universe. It also established that at least some comic-book writers in …
I always thought Iris Allen needed a secret origin, didn’t you?
Continuity implants of the Silver Age were often unremarkable, more like showing details of someone’s backstory they just hadn’t brought up before. Learning in Flash #126 that Barry Allen had a …
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 …
DC gets hip!
As I mentioned back in May, by 1968 comics were increasingly reacting to their times. In early 1969, Spider-Man tackled campus protests; DC cast its eye on that iconic late-sixties …
A new face of 1968 — and a new Earth too!
Debuting in Amazing Spider-Man #56 (Stan Lee, John Romita), Captain George Stacy is an excellent example of something I blogged about a few weeks back, that major changes to comics …