Marvel’s “War is Hell” isn’t hell to read but it’s closer to hell than heaven.
As Greg Hatcher has remarked in many of his columns, we live in an age when an astonishing amount of old comic book material is available. I completed my set …
Tag: Marvel Comics
Ditko and his inkers
Ditko may have been his own best inker, but quite a few others were no slouches, either.
“My letter’s on the fan page!” Silver Age Marvel Comics on Earth-616
As I described in my last post about the comic-book industry in comic-book worlds, Stan Lee of Earth-616 spent the 1950s writing war, horror and Patsy Walker comics for Marvel. …
āI didnāt know Future Man used a life battery!ā Marvel Comics on Earth-616
Where DC Comics only occasionally showed us what the DCUās Silver Age comics were like, Marvel wasted no time establishing Earth-616 had its own version of Marvel Comics, publishing its …
Victor von Doom’s astonishing adventures!
I think we can all agree that Dr. Doom is a superior character to DC’s Eclipso. That did not, however, make him a more successful character. Eclipso debuted inĀ House of …
The only good goblin is a dead goblin
Comics nerds like us have generated endless discussion ā spoken, print, online ā about the decision to kill Gwen Stacey. Who came up with it? Why? What did her co-creator, …
Groundbreakers and dead ends, swords and sorcerers
As I mentioned last week, Captain Comet could have jump-started the Silver Age, but instead he went nowhere, After debuting in 1951 inĀ Strange Adventures #9, his series inĀ Strange Adventures ran …