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 …
Tag: Rereading the Silver Age
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 …
Two 34s from 1965
By a weird coincidence, both today’s reviews come from a thirty-fourth issue. Once again, I think they show the respective strengths of DC and Marvel. First, from Green Lantern #34, …
“I became Secretary of Defense because of my fame as a luchador. No, seriously.”
By 1965, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and the other Marvel creators are doing some amazing work. But nobody’s perfect; in “The Strength of the Sumo” (Tales of Suspense #61) Lee …
Daredevil gets old school, Superman gets furious: my last look at 1964.
Silver Age Marvel gets a lot of credit for telling stories that were more contemporary than old-fashioned DC. “Contemporary” is not how I’d describe Daredevil #5, in which he battles …
Jean Loring and Lady Dorma: highs and lows of Silver Age romance
In my Silver Age rereading I’m finding Jean Loring is one of my favorite love interests. It’s not that her love affair with Ray “the Atom” Palmer is particularly intense …