Would you buy a diamond ring from this comic book?
I’ve blogged before about some of the implausible stuff advertised in comics, like classes to become a dental assistant. This might be the weirdest yet. Even given comic-book readers skewed …
Tag: Rereading the Silver Age
Kryptonite is gone! Can anything stop Superman now?
Following up on Monday’s post on reboots, here’s one of the biggest of the early Bronze Age — because it was Superman. Rebooting the Black Widow is one thing; making …
As the Bible says, some seeds fall upon stony ground
I don’t know where in my piles of comics I read it, or if it’s even in one I own, but Stan Lee once recounted in a Soapbox how a …
I’d like to meet a hairy too
I’m not sure which issue of Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen this text page appeared in but it’s worth posting here even so. The Hairies debuted in #134, the product of something called …
A turning point in the life of Marvel’s original anti-hero!
Or so Sub-Mariner #33 seemed at the time. Much as I disliked Atlantean noblewoman Lady Dorma when Stan Lee was writing the book — — Roy Thomas taking over Sub-Mariner has …
The new comics creators of the 1970s — or at least new to these books
For any DC fan in the Silver Age, Carmine Infantino was the Flash artist. He’d been drawing Barry Allen from the beginning until 1967 when DC kicked him upstairs and Ross …
I’d have posted sooner —
But the Plush Dog went on a three-day binge and we had to bail him out of the drunk tank. Actually what happened was that a few weeks ago he …