The New Look is ending, Batman is changing
In 1965, the ad below informed DC readers Batman was getting a New Look (more discussion of the look here). The New Look got the Bat-books away from the science …
Tag: Gardner Fox
The image that fell out of time!
In blogging about Gardner Fox’s departure from DC Comics, I meant to talk about Justice League of America #61 as an example of one of Fox’s more convoluted plots, and …
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 …
His doom was sealed in his second issue: the Silver Age Spectre
As I blogged about several years ago, the Spectre’s 1966 Silver Age debut had an absolutely mesmerizing cover, all the more mesmerizing because I missed it on the spinner rack. …
No longer invincible? The Justice League in 1966 and ’67
For some reason, Gardner Fox in late ’66 and on into the following year — Justice League of America #50 through #55 — decided it would be interesting if he …
The Batusi, the new dance craze sweeping DC comics!
The Batman TV show — the one starring Adam West and Burt Ward, hopefully y’all are familiar with it — hit the airwaves at the start of ’66. It didn’t …
In the summer of 1966, titans fell (and other stuff happened)
Okay, “titans fell” is a clickbait exaggeration. House of Secrets was never a Silver Age titan and Mystery In Space dropped in quality after Jack Schiff took it over from …