Let’s end the month with Gene Colan art!
Daredevil #58-60 (Roy Thomas, Gene Colan) is a typical outing for the Man Without Fear. He’s up against the latest crime boss controlling the Big Apple mobs, the aptly named …
Tag: Rereading the Silver Age
Avengers battle the JLA! Green Arrow becomes poor! Kang tells a fib!
As everyone probably knows, the first JLA/Avengers crossover took place in 1969. As Roy Thomas explains it, “This initial takeoff on 4 members of DC’s Justice League was the result …
Plugging a gap with a zap!
As I mentioned a few months back, when Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes swapped books, it cut the LSH out of my Silver Age reread. Following Action Comics #376, the Legion …
Now I want to see Oscar the Grouch as one of Batman’s eyes on the street
The November (cover dated) comics where I saw ABC’s Saturday morning schedule advertised also had ads for another kids’ show on another network. Though I couldn’t have known it at …
Roy Thomas speaks! Mar-Vell listens!
Over at Roy Thomas’s website he has several pages listing his comic book co-creations. As I’ve been blogging so much about Captain Mar-Vell, this section I stumbled across seemed interesting: …
Who can forget the Cattanooga Cats? I kind of wish I could
Last month I took a look at ads for CBS’ 1969 Saturday morning lineup. It included the TV debut of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, and Scooby-Doo, not to mention Monkees …
I’d say I’m posting this as a textbook example of its genre, but mostly I found it funny
Anyone who’s read Silver Age DC Comics knows they filled up space with gag strips written and drawn by Henry Boltinoff, brother to DC editor Murray Boltinoff. As a kid …