In the Bronze Age, the past wasn’t dead. It wasn’t even past
As I’ve mentioned before, the early Bronze Age was an age of reprints. By 1971 DC, in particular, was all in. For the comics cover-dated August 1971, they raised the …
Tag: Rereading the Silver Age
May your doom be nice
As y’all must know, Damage Control was a series by Dwayne McDuffie and Ernie Colon dealing with the company that cleans up after superhero battles, alien invasions, giant robot clashes, etc. …
You got horror comics in my love comics! And my war comics! And my superhero books!
As I blogged about last year, the Bronze Age horror-comics revival began in 1968 when DC rebooted House of Mystery into its definitive form, with Cain as caretaker, landlord to ill-fated …
The shape of comics to come
Flash #209 (cover by Dick Giordano), cover-dated September, 1971, was a landmark issue. Not that I’d have known it at the time, even if I’d picked it up new (I …
If Marvel Comics can have Captain Marvel, why not Mary Marvel? Incredible Hulk #142
As I blogged about last year, I’m not a fan of Valkyrie’s debut in Avengers #83. Though of course Valkyrie turns out to be a disguise the Enchantress adopted to …
It suddenly occurs to me that bronze and silver are not the same metal
Back in 2022, I settled on March 1972 as the cutoff for my ongoing Silver Age reread. In the grand scheme of things it’s not a particularly significant month. It …
Even reprints need a better cover than this
One of the trademarks of the Bronze Age was Marvel and DC’s increasing use of reprints. They were cheaper than new material, easier than new material and attracted lots of …