Tag: Green Lantern
Superboy shattered! Batman becomes Robin! Captain America mourns Bucky! Wonder Woman forgets her mother’s birthday! And more!
Time for another random selection of stories. Most of them are from late 1968 as part of my Silver Age reread but the three at the end are earlier, taken …
Timelessness and relevance
I don’t remember what prompted it but a couple of years back my friend Ross Bagby and I got into a discussion of how a lot of 20th century fiction …
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In Green Lantern #49, John Broome and Gil Kane shook up the series by having Hal Jordan lose Carol Ferris forever, quit his job and split from Coast City. From …
DC does comics the Marvel way … maybe
Fathoming the why of creative decisions is tricky, particularly in the comic-book industry. We have the writer, the editor, the artist, higher-ups at the company; sometimes they’re on the same …
My hero, the brain-damaged thug: the odyssey of Guy Gardner
Guy Gardner is another example of how minor characters can become stars. After his debut in Green Lantern #59 he existed for years at the level of trivia-night questions (“Besides …