Mutants and missiles, selfish heroes and a crisis: more stories from 1963
In one of my previous Silver Age posts, I pointed out that in July, 1962, Stan Lee used a Circus of Crime in two different books. A year later, I …
Tag: Marvel Comics
And men shall call him — warlock! Adam Warlock before Jim Starlin
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 …
Whatever gods there be: theology in the DCU and MU
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 …
Fox, Lee, Kirby: Writing in the Silver Age
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 …
Lois Lane and the Circus of Crime: two short posts, combined
“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 …
Kirby von Daniken: The Eternals
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 …
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 …