Steve Rogers, you did her wrong.
Silver Age Marvel did not do well by the MU’s women. Someone once described DC’s love interests as Katherine Hepburn — confident, capable, often with professional jobs (lawyer, cop, reporter, …
Tag: Marvel Comics
Enter the Bronze (Age) Widow! Natasha gets dangerous
As I’ve discussed in several recent posts, lots of heroes disappeared or rebooted, as comics moved into the 1970s. The Black Widow’s reboot was one of the successful ones, as …
If the Bronze Age begins in a forest and nobody reads it, are the pages blank?
Going by cover dates, my Silver Age reread is now up to the summer of 1970 (though I still have some earlier stuff to catch up on). We’ve seen at …
Schemers! Red Raven! Dark Shadows! Hero (of course) fighting hero! Marvel, cover-dated June 1970
We’re working on getting our image-posting powers back. For now, all the covers of the books I’m talking about are visible here. And no, there’s no particular reason for picking …
Losers, robots and spiders
As I’ve mentioned before in this Silver Age reread, I’ve never been a war comics fan, and I was barely reading any comics from the start of ’69 until 1972. …
The horror — the horror!
When the superhero genre bit the dust at the end of the 1940s — as y’all know, Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman were the only heroes to keep their books …
Contrary to The Who, the kids are not alright
At the end of the 1960s, youth seemed to be running wild in a way it never had before. The 20th century had already transformed America’s idea of youth by …