Does anyone miss the Zeroids?
In one of the late 1968 DC comics I’m currently working through I came across this ad (actually in several comics).I remember seeing the add and thinking it looked cool. …
Tag: Rereading the Silver Age
Call the Captain — Action!
(Once again, my Silver Age reread has caught up with something I posted about two years back. As I’m pressed for time, that’s what you get today and Wednesday) My …
His doom was sealed in his second issue: the Silver Age Spectre
As I blogged about several years ago, the Spectre’s 1966 Silver Age debut had an absolutely mesmerizing cover, all the more mesmerizing because I missed it on the spinner rack. …
August 1968: Beyond the Big Two.
My Silver Age reread focuses primarily on the Big Two. That’s 90 percent of what I have on hand and what’s available to me, with exceptions such as Magnus, Robot …
It’s been 12 years since the Silver Age began — well, if you’re in August, 1968
Which is the point I’ve reached in my Silver Age reread. One of my reasons for starting it was to see how much things changed over the course of the …
The Three R’s: Robbins, Robin and Relevance
“One Bullet Too Many” in 1969’s Batman #217 (Frank Robbins, Irv Novick) is the story I think of as the end of the New Look Batman and the beginning of …
Timelessness and relevance
I don’t remember what prompted it but a couple of years back my friend Ross Bagby and I got into a discussion of how a lot of 20th century fiction …