The shipping of Lex and Lois
I recently reached July of 1962 in my Silver Age reread and I discovered this cover on Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane #34. I don’t have the “great imaginary novel” but …
Tag: Superman
Three early Silver Age covers, three related mini-posts
First cover, by Curt Swan, for Superman #146. It’s a full-length retelling of Superman’s origin from1961, but it feels about 20 years ahead of its time. “The Story of Superman’s Life” …
Superboy: The Farm Team of Steel?
One of the fun parts of rereading the Silver Age month by month is discovering stuff that never registered when I reread old issues or random reprints from the era. …
There must have been something in the water. Or maybe the ink.
When I think of how the Silver Age changed comics, I usually think of Julius Schwartz, then Marvel, putting their distinctive stamps on the superhero genre. Rereading the Silver Age …
House to Astonish Episode 175
Weâre back (after far too long away), with discussion of DC shuttering Vertigo, Ink and Zoom; Brian Michael Bendis on Legion of Super-Heroes; the books spinning out of Heroes in Crisis; Black Panther and the Agents of Wakanda; JJ and Henry Abrams and Sara Pichelliâs Spider-Man; the returns of Pretty Deadly and Battle Chasers and so much more – join us after the cut, why don’t you?
Superman: Electric Boogaloo
Superman is the archetypal superhero, the one character who laid the foundation for the decades of characters and stories that were to follow. He is a character that fights for …
Ideal Images
Like most of you, I have a platonic ideal of certain characters that I carry around in my head. And a lot of times, it has to do with who I saw play a particular part when I was at an impressionable age. I’ve had a few of them bouncing around in my head this week, so I thought I’d share.