Is he superhero or monster — or is he both?
When I started my Silver Age reread, I didn’t pay much attention to Marvel because I didn’t have any Marvel stuff from the 1950s. As you can see here, most …
Tag: Marvel Comics
Once was enough
Rereading old comics, I’m often surprised how frequently writers would create great villains, then stop using them. Not always, of course. The Joker has seen lots of use in every …
The Siancong War: Worse Than I Thought
Thanks to my local library I read History of the Marvel Universe by Mark Waid and Javier Rodriguez yesterday, hoping to clarify some of my questions about the Siancong War. …
Frustrated — by J. Jonah Jameson!
J. Jonah Jameson, Spider-Man’s perpetual nemesis cum comic relief character, doesn’t have as high a public profile as comics’ other famous editor, Perry White. Still, between the comics, the movies …
Two 34s from 1965
By a weird coincidence, both today’s reviews come from a thirty-fourth issue. Once again, I think they show the respective strengths of DC and Marvel. First, from Green Lantern #34, …
Captain America — Young Punk?
One of the things Silver Age Marvel (nor most later Marvel that I can recall) rarely touches on is how fricking young Captain America was in the Golden and Silver …
Doom, Don Heck, the Thing and More: Marvel in 1964
As part of my Silver Age reread I got to Fantastic Four Annual #2 and is it ever a game-changer. It’s the issue that gave us Doom’s backstory as a …