If WW II were this easy, we’d have won it in 1942
When I signed up for the Marvel app to help with my Silver Age rereading, I discovered it included Sgt. Fury. Even though I wasn’t a fan, I added it …
Tag: Rereading the Silver Age
Daredevil, Thor, the Teen Titans: short notes from the Silver Age
While it’s fun going into detail about particular issues or trends as I reread the Silver Age, 1965 has simply more going on than I can blog in detail about. …
August, 1965: Bondage comics
No, not the Wonder Woman kind of bondage.I mean “bond-age” as in the Age of James Bond. After Goldfinger came out in ’64, spies were suddenly cooler than they’d ever …
It was the summer of ’65. Here are some comics covers
No particular theme here other than picking covers I like, or that I at least find interesting. This Curt Swan cover is an excellent example of the drawbacks of Cover …
Big news about a small superhero: The Silver Age Atom
My Silver Age reread has given me fresh appreciation from how well Julius Schwartz, Gardner Fox and Gil Kane rebooted the Golden Age Atom. More precisely, how they made this …
Mercy-killing comic books
One bad thing about rereading the Silver Age is that it includes reading stuff that I don’t particularly like.Sgt. Fury, for example, was sometimes billed as the “the war comic …
Cavemen, beast-bombs and an outsider: the weirder side of 1965 in Gotham City
As I mentioned last week, the New Look Batman era toned down the SF elements that Jack Schiff had pumped into Batman such as alien criminals. Weird changes either to …