Titans, Legionnaires, mutants: scenes from different Silver Age team books
Teen Titans #11, “Monster Bait,” by Bob Haney and Nick Cardy, is a standard yarn for the series in the Silver Age. With school out for the summer, Speedy shows …
Tag: Rereading the Silver Age
The Shield of Steranko!
When Jim Steranko jumped to Marvel from the advertising world, he brought a very different style of illustration with him. He started out inking Kirby on the SHIELD strip in …
Three views of the Thing and a thought about Alicia Masters
First this scene, fromĀ Fantastic Four #60 (Stan Lee, Jack Kirby), the ending issue of the FF’s epic, multi-part battle with Dr. Doom, amped up by the power of the Silver …
Just filling pages? Maybe
In one way “filler” is an odd word to describe a given comic-book issue. It’s the nature of the medium that you have to have something to fill next month’s …
A minor (but mighty!) Marvel landmark
Following the Kingpin’s debut in Amazing Spider-Man #50 we have him meet and defeat Spider-Man the following issue. #52 resolves his introductory arc with Spidey turning the tables. In addition …
Daredevil vs. the live volcano, Baron Zemo … and Stan Lee?
Back when Marvel’s Essentials came out, I’d flip through the Silver Age Daredevil and conclude, time and again, that Gene Colan’s art made them look way better than they really …
Spiderman No More? Say it ain’t so, Joe!
When I read a reprint of Spider-Man #50, “Spider-Man No More!”Ā by Stan Lee and John Romita, I thought it was a good story but no more than that. It …