Kryptonite is gone! Can anything stop Superman now?
Following up on Monday’s post on reboots, here’s one of the biggest of the early Bronze Age — because it was Superman. Rebooting the Black Widow is one thing; making …
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What did Supergirl know and when did she know it?
My friend and fellow comics nerd Ross recently caught Superman. He liked it but he raised a point I didn’t consider in my review (nor Corrina in hers). Spoilers below, should …
The king and the kook: Jack Kirby takes over Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen
Looking back, I’m not sure it’s possible to grasp what a seismic shock Jack Kirby leaving Marvel in 1970 was at the time. There was a lot less moving between …
Superman’s weakness is Brussells sprouts? Yeah, I hate them too!
By early 1970 my family had moved from Stanmore, England, to Fort Walton Beach, Florida. I was settling in, sort of — it was quite an adjustment — but I …
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them
(Another repost from my own blog) The title is a quote from Malvolio in Twelfth Night, a role I got to play in a local production many years ago (and …
I have become as all-seeing as the mighty Ka-Bala!
Y’all remember Ka-Bala, the mysterious toy with the power to predict the future? While I cannot predict the outcome of baseball games or someone’s love life, years of immersing myself …
Two visitors from Krypton
The mid-1969 Neal Adams cover of Superboy #158, “Superboy’s Darkest Secret” (Frank Robbins, Bob Brown) is completely accurate. Superboy’s parents show up alive and it’s not a dream, not a …