Famous firsts
As I’ve mentioned before, both DC or Marvel were off their game as the Silver Age approached its end. DC’s trying anything and everything to make up for the sales …
Tag: Stan Lee
Roy Thomas speaks! Mar-Vell listens!
Over at Roy Thomas’s website he has several pages listing his comic book co-creations. As I’ve been blogging so much about Captain Mar-Vell, this section I stumbled across seemed interesting: …
The Dead Sea Scrolls never caused this much trouble: the Tablet Saga
The Tablet Saga in Amazing Spider-Man ran much longer than I expected. Otherwise there’d be no point in calling it a saga — though to the best of my knowledge, …
I am shocked, shocked, that sexism is going on in this place!
Okay, not so shocked. Silver Age comics frequently didn’t treat their women well. Particularly Marvel. Still the two examples that follow are particularly egregious Thor #164 (Stan Lee, Jack Kirby) …
Stories from series I don’t usually like
One of the nice surprises about rereading the Silver Age is when comics series I don’t care for deliver a good issue. Three of the stories I’m looking at here …
Gene Colan, Frank Springer and other Marvel artists
As I’ve written before, Gene Colan is one of the artists who often seemed to struggle with the Marvel Method requiring him to do the lion’s share of the plotting. …
Relevance! Galactus! The Serpent Crown! Glimpses of Marvel in January 1969
Along with the infamous marriage of Yellowjacket and the Wasp, Marvel had a few other books cover-dated for January 1969. Here are some of them, starting with Amazing Spider-Man #68. …