A turning point in the life of the Hulk!
As I mentioned in an earlier post about my Silver Age reread, when the Hulk relaunched his series as Giant-Man’s companion in Tales to Astonish, it came with a reboot …
Tag: Rereading the Silver Age
Things I didn’t get into
Comic books of the Silver Age were, of course, rife with ads and many of them sounded so amazingly cool. X-ray spectacles! A tank full of tiny sea monkeys! Foolproof …
Zha-Vam! Say his name and Superman still shakes!
(Once again reposting something I wrote earlier to fit it into my Silver Age reread) For years, I’ve suffered the frustration of having Action #351 and #353 — the first and last …
Just when it was getting good!
I’ve mentioned before that including Sgt. Fury in my Silver Age Reread hasn’t changed my feelings about the book. Which are negative, despite some striking moments like this one (courtesy …
Crime was never as organized as this!
I think it was reading Future Quest, based on Greg Hatcher’s recommendation, that got me thinking of how many spy cartels were operating in 1960s fiction. Blame of course, goes …
Creating the worst character in DC history is an accomplishment of sorts.
According to any number of Silver Age buffs, DC’s Brother Power, The Geek is the worst character DC ever gave us.No question the story of a tailor’s dummy miraculously coming …
Clearly that’s the last we’ll hear of Animal Man or the Enchantress, am I right?
When DC shifted Julie Schwartz from Strange Adventures and Mystery in Space to Batman and Detective Comics, former Bat-editor Jack Schiff took over Schwartz’s science fiction comics. Just as Schiff …