Has anyone ever said you look like Superman?
I recently wrapped up the first Silver Age Superman omnibus, which I bought to upgrade from the Showcase Superman black and white TPBs. As I’ve blogged about before, this was an …
Tag: Rereading the Silver Age
Forever is a long time coming — but they’re here!
Following Jack Kirby’s DC debut — Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen — February 1971 (cover-dated) brought us two pure Kirby creations, Forever People #1 and New Gods #1 (though Alan Stewart says …
I always thought Iris Allen needed a secret origin, didn’t you?
Continuity implants of the Silver Age were often unremarkable, more like showing details of someone’s backstory they just hadn’t brought up before. Learning in Flash #126 that Barry Allen had a …
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 …
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 …