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 …
Tag: relevance
Why yes, Roy, you were making a statement: Avengers #83
Marvel’s first story about racial conflict was Avengers #32 (correct me if I’ve missed one). Stan Lee and Don Heck (who did the cover) introduce us to the Sons of the …
Save the environment! And the Native Americans! And the Chicago Seven! More relevance
One thing you can say about the relevant stories of the late Silver/early Bronze Age is that writers had no shortage of issues to choose from. By late 1970 writers …
Was this when DC and Marvel started handing out the good drugs?
It’s common knowledge that back in the early 1970s, some among the new generation of Bronze Age comics writers were using drugs. The Golden and Silver Age generations, as far …
Keeping it real! Two more “relevant” stories
At the end of the 1960s, DC and Marvel were trying soooo hard to prove they were not just disposable funny books for children. No, they were the work of …
Wheelies! Captain America and Black Canary become easy riders
As I keep saying (and most of you know without me saying it), comics do not exist in a vacuum. Writers draw their inspirations from what’s going on around them, …
Shatter the battery, unleash the Age of Bronze!
If you’re a comics nerd with any exposure to books of the early 1970s, you’ve undoubtedly seen this cover. The story inside, Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams’ “No Evil Shall …