Daredevil, Thor, the Teen Titans: short notes from the Silver Age
While it’s fun going into detail about particular issues or trends as I reread the Silver Age, 1965 has simply more going on than I can blog in detail about. …
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Marvel 1965: a shared universe, a man-fish, a pointless engagement
My Silver Age reread is up to June 1965 at this point and the Marvel Universe is definitely a thing. It’s not like Stan Lee and the rest of the …
Once was enough
Rereading old comics, I’m often surprised how frequently writers would create great villains, then stop using them. Not always, of course. The Joker has seen lots of use in every …
Doom, Don Heck, the Thing and More: Marvel in 1964
As part of my Silver Age reread I got to Fantastic Four Annual #2 and is it ever a game-changer. It’s the issue that gave us Doom’s backstory as a …
Mutants and missiles, selfish heroes and a crisis: more stories from 1963
In one of my previous Silver Age posts, I pointed out that in July, 1962, Stan Lee used a Circus of Crime in two different books. A year later, I …
An absent-minded professor, a doctor and a light-bulb: stories from 1963
Yep, it’s another of my posts looking at random stories from my Silver Age rereading that seemed worth of comment. There’s several more from 1963 I want to talk about, …
Let’s do a quick check of all the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies!
Yeah, okay, this is not quick at all, but let’s check it out anyway!