“My letter’s on the fan page!” Silver Age Marvel Comics on Earth-616
As I described in my last post about the comic-book industry in comic-book worlds, Stan Lee of Earth-616 spent the 1950s writing war, horror and Patsy Walker comics for Marvel. …
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“I didn’t know Future Man used a life battery!” Marvel Comics on Earth-616
Where DC Comics only occasionally showed us what the DCU’s Silver Age comics were like, Marvel wasted no time establishing Earth-616 had its own version of Marvel Comics, publishing its …
Victor von Doom’s astonishing adventures!
I think we can all agree that Dr. Doom is a superior character to DC’s Eclipso. That did not, however, make him a more successful character. Eclipso debuted in House of …
The only good goblin is a dead goblin
Comics nerds like us have generated endless discussion — spoken, print, online — about the decision to kill Gwen Stacey. Who came up with it? Why? What did her co-creator, …
Groundbreakers and dead ends, swords and sorcerers
As I mentioned last week, Captain Comet could have jump-started the Silver Age, but instead he went nowhere, After debuting in 1951 in Strange Adventures #9, his series in Strange Adventures ran …
As the Bible says, some seeds fall upon stony ground
I don’t know where in my piles of comics I read it, or if it’s even in one I own, but Stan Lee once recounted in a Soapbox how a …
A turning point in the life of Marvel’s original anti-hero!
Or so Sub-Mariner #33 seemed at the time. Much as I disliked Atlantean noblewoman Lady Dorma when Stan Lee was writing the book — — Roy Thomas taking over Sub-Mariner has …