The Man of Bronze in the Bronze Age: Marvel’s Doc Savage
(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 …
Tag: Marvel Comics
Go Lem or Go Home: Marvel’s “Thing That Walks Like a Man”
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 …
Successfully scratched itches, part 5: Comix
After well over forty years, I finally got around to reading one of the earliest serious histories of American comic books.
The not-quite Saga of Man-Wolf
The new book, Man-Wolf: The Complete Collection, chronicles what was almost a complete saga for this character in the 1970s
A web comic everyone should be reading: COVID Chronicles
This past summer, AWAâs Upshot Studios, in collaboration with NBC News, launched a web-comic series called COVID Chronicles, about the worldwide toll being taken by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Writer Ethan Sacks and artist Dalibor TalajiÄ spoke to us about the project.
What is truth? Is truth unchanging taste? Avengers #60
When I was in my teens I read an old copy of Avengers #60 and I thought it was fantastic. Rereading “Till Death Do Us Part” by John Buscema …
Steve Englehart, the Lazarus Man
As a teenager in the Bronze Age, Steve Englehart was one of my favorite writers. Looking back, I still love his stories, but I’m almost as impressed by the number …