Adam Warlock’s first series wasn’t perfect. Coming out in 1972, however, it was perfectly timed. I can’t imagine Marvel trying a religious allegory (“My dream casting is High Evolutionary as …
If you don’t think about it much, the Marvel and DC universes look like they have Christianity as their operating system. We’ve seen Heaven, often depicted with pearly gates. It …
Once Marvel began publishing superhero comics in the Silver Age, the differences between the Marvel and DC styles firmed up quickly. Most of the DC stories I remember fondly give …
“Half a Superman” in Action #290 (writer unknown, art by Curt Swan) demonstrates that as much as the Silver Age liked to humiliate and mock Lois Lane, she was never “galactically …
As I said in my Omac post, I didn’t care for most of Kirby’s Bronze Age work but The Eternals was an exception. Rereading them in TPB recently confirmed it …
(Another rewritten post from my own blog, from 2014). If not for Doc Savage, I might never have started reading Marvel in the Bronze Age. I’d read Marvel occasionally in …
I love mythology almost as much as I love comic books. Perhaps that’s not surprising as I encountered them both at a young impressionable age. Justice League of America #30 …
