Art, webs and more: somewhat random thoughts connected to Spider-Man.
One thing I’ve learned rereading the Silver Age is what a mixed bag the “Marvel method” — assigning the artists the lion’s share of the plotting — turned out to …
Tag: Gene Colan
One odd issue: Tales of Suspense #84
Coming late in 1966, Tales of Suspense #84 isn’t a bad issue but it’s a very odd one. The first story, “The Other Iron Man” (Stan Lee, Gene Colan) has …
Surprisingly grim for 1965
Tales of Suspense #73 has Gene Colan take over the art/plotting on Iron Man from Don Heck and it’s an immediate improvement. Heck was never comfortable with doing the plotting …
Comics You Should Own – ‘Silverblade’
“Silverblade?” you say, mystified. “Silverblade,” I say, definitively. You shrug and think, Let’s just see about that!
Successfully scratched itches
Following the lead of another Atomic Junk Shop regular who wrote about some itches that took years to be scratched, I take a look at a few comics stories that left itches I only managed to scratch decades after the fact