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, …
Tag: Rereading the Silver Age
The shipping of Lex and Lois
I recently reached July of 1962 in my Silver Age reread and I discovered this cover on Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane #34.Ā I don’t have the “great imaginary novel” but …
Three early Silver Age covers, three related mini-posts
First cover, by Curt Swan, forĀ Superman #146. It’s a full-length retelling of Superman’s origin from1961, but it feels about 20 years ahead of its time. “The Story of Superman’s Life” …
Wasted women of the Silver Age
No, not women who got wasted, women the writers wasted. Two women who deserved better. First we have Lesla-Lar, the Kandorian scientific genius who debuted inĀ Action Comics #279 as “Supergirl’s …
Superboy: The Farm Team of Steel?
One of the fun parts of rereading the Silver Age month by month is discovering stuff that never registered when I reread old issues or random reprints from the era. …
Flying gorillas weren’t enough?
I assume the Gardner Fox/Carmine Infantino/Murphy Anderson story “The Flying Gorilla Menace” from Strange Adventures #125 was one of their “cover first, story later” creations. If so, they put far …
Things I cannot believe
There are lots of things in comics I don’t bat an eye at. Superman lifting up apartment buildings so he can peer into the lead-lined basement? Cool. Batman getting knocked …