The most shocking cover of 1971?
Perhaps not, but Flash #210’s Murphy Anderson cover did raise a few eyebrows. I mean, WTF, Flash-creators — we’re in 2971, John Wilkes Booth just shot Abraham Lincoln and Adam …
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Continuity: it matters behind the scenes too
There’s no question a lot of the Bronze Age was solid gold. Steve Englehart’s Avengers. Tomb of Dracula. Starlin’s Warlock and Captain Marvel. Plus less spectacular but solidly entertaining books such as Cary Bates …
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 …
Love changes everything. Except when it doesn’t.
Monday I wrote about Marvel superheroes and their love interests as of mid-1971. DC didn’t play up the personal drama as much as Marvel (nor usually as well) but as …
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 …
The new comics creators of the 1970s — or at least new to these books
For any DC fan in the Silver Age, Carmine Infantino was the Flash artist. He’d been drawing Barry Allen from the beginning until 1967 when DC kicked him upstairs and Ross …
Nanananananaaa, Batman! Wait, he’s dark and spooky now
Early Bronze Age Batman isn’t my favorite era of the Darknight Detective by any means. It is not, however, a bad era, and it’s fascinating to watch Batman’s continued transition …