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.
Tag: Marvel Comics
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, AWA’s 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 Talajić 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 …
Successfully scratched itches
Following the lead of another Atomic Junk Shop regular who wrote about some itches that took years to be scratched, I take a look at a few comics stories that left itches I only managed to scratch decades after the fact
