Oh Wasp, where is thy story logic?
Having read a couple of stories from July ’65 this weekend, I thought I’d do a quick add-on to Monday’s post. Avengers #18, “When the Commissar Commands” was the first …
Tag: Rereading the Silver Age
Marvel 1965: a shared universe, a man-fish, a pointless engagement
My Silver Age reread is up to June 1965 at this point and the Marvel Universe is definitely a thing. It’s not like Stan Lee and the rest of the …
A bit of the past I still don’t get
In my Silver Age Reread, I’ve made use of my old comics, reprint comic books, TPB collections and most recently the DC and Marvel apps. Much as I prefer reading …
Is he superhero or monster — or is he both?
When I started my Silver Age reread, I didn’t pay much attention to Marvel because I didn’t have any Marvel stuff from the 1950s. As you can see here, most …
Sea Devils, rebooted! Do you care deeply?
As I mentioned a couple of weeks back, the comics landscape changed a lot between the start of the Silver Age and 1965. It’s no surprising some characters had to …
1965, the year everything changed! Okay, not really
So I’m in early 1965 in my Silver Age reread and DC Comics have changed a lot from when I started rereading the Silver Age. As I mentioned in my …
Frustrated — by J. Jonah Jameson!
J. Jonah Jameson, Spider-Man’s perpetual nemesis cum comic relief character, doesn’t have as high a public profile as comics’ other famous editor, Perry White. Still, between the comics, the movies …