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 …
Tag: Superman
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 …
Superman, Cain and Quasimodo! Random oddities from the comics of late 1968.
Action #368 and 369 by Otto Binder and Curt Swan reminded me how some of Otto Binder’s Superman Family work resembles his Captain Marvel days. Scenes of cops sitting around …
Superboy shattered! Batman becomes Robin! Captain America mourns Bucky! Wonder Woman forgets her mother’s birthday! And more!
Time for another random selection of stories. Most of them are from late 1968 as part of my Silver Age reread but the three at the end are earlier, taken …
Me have finished lots of blog posts for this site!
Me got so far ahead on blog posting, decided no point to posting any of them! So me post this instead!Besides, me not like Bizarro stories! Me never like them …