A few comic-book scenes and the stories attached to them.
The first is from Strange Tales #151, a coda to my fascination with the Secret Empire arc. In the previous issue, socialite and new Supreme Hydra Don Caballero (which even …
Tag: Marvel Comics
One odd issue: Tales of Suspense #84
Coming late in 1966, Tales of Suspense #84 isn’t a bad issue but it’s a very odd one. The first story, “The Other Iron Man” (Stan Lee, Gene Colan) has …
Blazing battle action, plus some questions: Fantastic Four Annual #4
The original Human Torch made his one-and-only Silver Age appearance battling Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four Annual #4. There are several aspects of the book that make it worth a …
The rest is still unwritten
This week I finished rereading the small number of New Mutants issues I still have (I gave a lot of stuff away some years back to a now-defunct program auctioning …
I looked at DC in September of ’66; now here’s Marvel
Back at the start of April I took a look at some of DC’s books from September of ’66. I wanted to follow up immediately with a Marvel-centered post but …
It’s embarrassing that I missed this
I’ve been rereading my old X-Men — that is, the Len Wein/Dave Cockrum-created New X-Men — for a while now and recently reached X-Men #183. I remembered disliking it and …
Even in defeat, the Secret Empire remains an enigma
Last month I blogged about the introduction of Marvel’s Secret Empire and pondered why Stan Lee introduced them when AIM was already around. Other than wearing red instead of AIM’s …