By 1962, Joe Oriolo had two famous cartoon characters on his résumé. Twenty-three years earlier, while moonlighting from his day job as an animator for Fleischer Studios, Oriolo and author Seymour Reit created Casper, the Friendly Ghost for a childr
I was never a fan of Charlton Comics. Like most of the also-ran comics companies of the Silver Age, they always came across as “Brand X”. There was something bland and two-dimensional about Charlton’s output. DC boasted the most polished product o
I won’t be discussing any nuggets of Silver-Age goodness this time around, folks. In fact, there won’t be anything comics related. This one is personal. So I’ll understand if you give it a pass.
The Good Mrs. Benson and I have just returned from
Read more…“The Court-Martial of Sergeant Fury”
Editor and writer: Stan Lee Art: Jack Kirby (pencils), George Roussos (inks)
The case of The United States Army v. Sergeant Nicholas Fury reconvenes.
The prosecution has rested after presenting an air-tight ca
Read more…We've recently moved our columnists, but older columns can't be moved without losing the Legionnaires' comments, which we value highly. So we've left older columns -- called "Blogs" in OldSpeak -- where they were originally. For older Commander Benso
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