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 …
Tag: Marvel Comics
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 …
Superboy shattered! Batman becomes Robin! Captain America mourns Bucky! Wonder Woman forgets her mother’s birthday! And more!
Time for another random selection of stories. Most of them are from late 1968 as part of my Silver Age reread but the three at the end are earlier, taken …
It’s been 12 years since the Silver Age began — well, if you’re in August, 1968
Which is the point I’ve reached in my Silver Age reread. One of my reasons for starting it was to see how much things changed over the course of the …