What is truth? Is truth unchanging taste?
(Time for another repost to fit an old topic into my Silver Age reread. This time: Avengers #60!) When I was in my teens I read an old copy of …
Tag: Marvel Comics
Marvel at the end of 1968: some images and stories
Writing about my Silver Age reread in 1968, I’ve commented several times that Jack Kirby’s stories, while still entertaining, feel like he’s getting ready for his exit. Captain America #108, …
It’s Marvel Art Wednesday!
Writing these Silver Age Reread posts, I’ve never denied my heart lies with DC more than Marvel. The reread has taught me that Marvel did some brilliant stuff; at the …
Superman, Cain and Quasimodo! Random oddities from the comics of late 1968.
Action #368 and 369 by Otto Binder and Curt Swan reminded me how some of Otto Binder’s Superman Family work resembles his Captain Marvel days. Scenes of cops sitting around …
This man is not a fashion icon
Sub-Mariner #7, the climax of Namor’s battle with Paul Destine, is not particularly satisfying. Though I do like that cover. “For President —The Man Called Destiny!” (Roy Thomas, John Buscema) …
And how, exactly, does finding planets for Galactus to destroy qualify you as a pure soul?
As I mentioned last month, I find all the over-emoting and speechifying Stan Lee wrote into Silver Surfer #1 insufferable. Reading the next couple of issues, I realized something else: …
Comic books do not exist in a vacuum. Unless you screwed up while housecleaning
Superhero comic books, like any form of art, do not exist on a spiritual plane untouched by the real world. Sometimes, like Hawk and the Dove or Brother Power, the …