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: …
Tag: Rereading the Silver Age
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 …
Marvel in 1969 did not become the new Harvey Comics
Due to finances and my family’s move to America, 1969 (as I’ve mentioned before) became a blank spot in my comics awareness. I usually think of that in terms of …
I wish I could quit you, man of the Kree!
I’m not a fan of the early Silver Age Captain Marvel. When I first encountered the series as part of my Silver Age reread I thought it was mediocre — …
A senator’s been shot! Not only that, Oliver Queen has a beard!
If any DC hero seemed destined to vanish into obscurity in 1969, it was Green Arrow. The Ace Archer had never had his own book. His World’s Finest backup feature ended …
A cartoon about a ghostbusting dog? Can’t see that lasting more than a season!
One of the secondary joys of rereading my own comics as part of my Silver Age Reread is rereading the ads. Sometimes house ads for other books = But …