What is truth? Is truth unchanging taste?
(Time for another repost to fit an old topic into my Silver Age reread. This time: Avengers #60!) When I was in my teens I read an old copy of …
Tag: Roy Thomas
This man is not a fashion icon
Sub-Mariner #7, the climax of Namor’s battle with Paul Destine, is not particularly satisfying. Though I do like that cover. “For President —The Man Called Destiny!” (Roy Thomas, John Buscema) …
It’s been 12 years since the Silver Age began — well, if you’re in August, 1968
Which is the point I’ve reached in my Silver Age reread. One of my reasons for starting it was to see how much things changed over the course of the …
Women problems: the comics of 1968 had them
1968 was not a good year to be a woman in superhero comics. Ever since Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne returned to the Avengers in #28, the team has …
Roy Thomas and the Hulk were both in New York in April, 1968?
My Silver Age reread has now reached the April, 1968 cover date. By this point Roy Thomas has been writing at Marvel for over two years, starting with his debut …
Rise and fall
Tony Isabella once wrote (IIRC at least) that what inspired him to write comics was reading Fantastic Four Annual #1 and noticing how much better it was than the previous …
Reprise: Black knights in white satin
Once again my Silver Age rereading has caught up with a post (from almost exactly two years ago) so I’m reposting. This time it’s about the strange Silver Age career …