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. …
Tag: Stan Lee
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. …
Marvel at the end of 1968: some images and stories
Writing about my Silver Age reread in 1968, I’ve commented several times that Jack Kirby’s stories, while still entertaining, feel like he’s getting ready for his exit. Captain America #108, …
And how, exactly, does finding planets for Galactus to destroy qualify you as a pure soul?
As I mentioned last month, I find all the over-emoting and speechifying Stan Lee wrote into Silver Surfer #1 insufferable. Reading the next couple of issues, I realized something else: …
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 …
One alien leaves, another one moves in
Recently I was thinking about the idea the New X-Men in 1975 represent the start of the Bronze Age (as discussed here) and whether that perception is a generational thing. …
When hero fights hero, the readers usually lose. But once in a while …
I know I’m not alone in heartily despising the “hero vs. hero” cliche, where two superheroes or teams collide in battle. Sometimes it’s mind-control; a lot of the time it’s …