(Continued from The Heroic Age, Part Three)
THE HEROIC AGE, PART FOUR (A.D. 1971 - A.D. 1980)
A.D. 1971:
Character Debuts:
It's that time of year again!
We've done this before (here, here, here, here, here and here), but now it's time for this year! This is a place for comments about any and all shows, but especially for shows that don't generate their own threads.
Docto
Read more…Will Eisner says not. I have my own opinion, but what do the rest of y'all think?
Read more…Hey, everyone!
I thought it might be fun--especially after our great Halloween haunted readings--to have a reading list for the No-Man's Land (pun intended) that is the month of November (well, Christmas tends to creep forward more and more in front
Read more…Craig hasn't posted the link to his Ask Mr. Silver Age article about the 1960s Harvey Heroes in Comics Buyers Guide #1680 (Aug. 2011) yet, so I'll try to be helpful and get some discussion going here.
The theme of this issue is comics we'd like to
Read more…Sometimes my brain goes on odd tangents.
Pre-Crisis, was there ever a discussion about how being shot with a bullet felt to a Kryptonian? We all know that they could easily shrug off the projectiles, but did they actually feel them at all? Did one de
Read more…When a thread gets long enough will it eventually start a new page, or will we have to scroll down for half an hour to get to the new replies? Or is that something that can be set up from the users end or from the moderators end? Thanks,
Read more…"The Blood of the Norns" ("The Death of the Mighty Thor" Part 1)
Written by Jason Aaron, Art by A Whole Bunch of People
Plot: The framing story is the Odinson (who apparently has lost an arm and acquired a talking dog) defending the Norns from an a
Read more…Fear the Walking Dead returns from mid-season hiatus Sept. 10. Here's the SDCC trailer.
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If you were a kid and a comic-book fan from the fall of 1967 through the summer of 1968, Saturday mornings were television heaven. Super-heroes had taken over kid-vid; between nine a.m. and two p.m., there was nothing but. Those of us who were tel
As difficult as it may be for some of you youngsters out there to believe, there was a time when Marvel Comics wasn’t the overwhelming, cross-media monolith of the comics industry. In the early and mid-1960’s, Marvel was the Avis of comics publisher
If you follow me on Facebook, you may have seen that our ten year old cat had one, yes, one kitten three weeks ago. She had one litter nine years ago, and nothing since. But mother and baby are doing well, and for you cat aficionados out there, her
Read more…The piece in the July 3d NEW YORKER about David Pecker, the head of the company that owns the NATIONAL ENQUIRER and many other mags, provide s me with a topic springboard for some things I've meant to ask here for a while. Time-Warner spun off it's p
Read more…Today, from In Stock Trades, I received a box containing Doug Moench and Kelley Jones's Batman. This was like a huge dream come true for me. Next thing they'll tell me, they will publish Batman: Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle Vol. 1.
Read more…Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
The week of Oct. 9 saw the season premieres of the four inter-connected superhero shows on The CW based on DC Comics, which constitutes a data dump of extreme importance to lovers of geek culture. This must be
Read more…Seven to Eternity Vol. 1: The God of Whispers
Written by Rick Remender; Drawn by Jerome Opeña; Color art by Matt Hollingsworth
Image Comics, 2017
Remender and Opeña introduce a new fantasy world here, a strange combination of Western and high fantas
Read more…Jackson Beck, because I fully believe that that man could've made anything - even, for example, a lazy slob getting up to get himself a snack - sound like a world-shattering adventure.
Read more…The Washington Post profiles Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner: "This Married Couple Helped Make Harley Quinn One of the Biggest Names in Comics"
Read more…Sherlock Holmes was born on January 6, 1854, the second of five children born to Sigurd and Violet (Vernet) Holmes, including older brothers Sherrinford and Mycroft, (1) and younger sisters Cecilia and Enola. (2)
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