Mutants and missiles, selfish heroes and a crisis: more stories from 1963
In one of my previous Silver Age posts, I pointed out that in July, 1962, Stan Lee used a Circus of Crime in two different books. A year later, I …
Tag: Rereading the Silver Age
An absent-minded professor, a doctor and a light-bulb: stories from 1963
Yep, it’s another of my posts looking at random stories from my Silver Age rereading that seemed worth of comment. There’s several more from 1963 I want to talk about, …
BEM: Just like “Shazam!” only you know, not.
Back in the Silver Age, DC was always including one-page features to help us kids be better people. Reading them I learned to treat others as I’d like to be …
Fox, Lee, Kirby: Writing in the Silver Age
Once Marvel began publishing superhero comics in the Silver Age, the differences between the Marvel and DC styles firmed up quickly. Most of the DC stories I remember fondly give …
Lois Lane and the Circus of Crime: two short posts, combined
“Half a Superman” in Action #290 (writer unknown, art by Curt Swan) demonstrates that as much as the Silver Age liked to humiliate and mock Lois Lane, she was never “galactically …
So maybe they should have kept his secret origin secret? Comet the Super-Horse
Some origins are just so right, they’re classic. Superman, last survivor of a doomed planet, fighting to defend his adopted homeworld. Batman, avenging the murder of his parents by waging …
You’re a wonder, Wonder Family!
Looking back from 2021, the Wonder Family era of Wonder Woman is just an amusing bit of comics trivia, as minor as Marvel’s Golem or the Maniaks. In their day, …