A perennial problem in comic-book storytelling is that the storytellers keep changing. Sometimes the series whipsaws in unpredictable and unsuccessful directions. Sometimes one writer’s plans get axed by their replacement. …
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 …
Given the last couple of posts in my Silver Age reread were mostly critical of Marvel’s 1967 output, it seemed worth mentioning that it’s not a slog to read them. …
When Jim Steranko jumped to Marvel from the advertising world, he brought a very different style of illustration with him. He started out inking Kirby on the SHIELD strip in …
I think it was reading Future Quest, based on Greg Hatcher’s recommendation, that got me thinking of how many spy cartels were operating in 1960s fiction. Blame of course, goes …
Back at the start of April I took a look at some of DC’s books from September of ’66. I wanted to follow up immediately with a Marvel-centered post but …
Last month I blogged about the introduction of Marvel’s Secret Empire and pondered why Stan Lee introduced them when AIM was already around. Other than wearing red instead of AIM’s …
