The Widow gets dangerous: Sting of the Widow
Reading Black Widow: Sting of the Widow alongside my Silver Age reread made me much more aware what a game-changer the early 1970s was for Natasha. Though the collection includes …
Reading Black Widow: Sting of the Widow alongside my Silver Age reread made me much more aware what a game-changer the early 1970s was for Natasha. Though the collection includes …
In 1965 and 1966, change was in the air. New names were writing the comics I liked, as well as the books I didn’t care about. The new generation of …
As I’ve mentioned previously, DC in 1965 looked very different from when the era started in 1956. Marvel isn’t the same company either. Western comics are fading away, though they’d …
One of the fun things about rereading Silver Age comic books rather than reprints is the ads. DC and Marvel would both try their level best to convince you that …
As I’ve said before, the Silver Age origin of the Teen Titans is sheer elegance in its simplicity: they realized teenagers sometimes needed superheroes in their corner so they formed …
One of the dismaying truths about comics is that nothing is forever, particularly creative teams. Sometimes this works out great, as when Steve Englehart replaced Roy Thomas writing Avengers or …
As I said on Monday, Marvel upped its game amazingly between Fantastic Four #1 and the end of 1965. Stan Lee and his collaborators had become masters of continual narrative …