This four-issue mini-series is about Jeff Mace, the third Captain America in revised Marvel continuity, one of my favorite subjects. In the original Golden Age stories, the Patriot didn’t have much of an origin. The character debuted as a text featur
Read more…Here is the report of a crime from the Seattle Post Intelligencer.
Thoughts?
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/425695_murder25.html
Read more…This is my first Legion "Fan of Bronze" piece so I'm a little nervous! And yes, I did read Marvel as a kid and am planning to cover some of those soon!
The Legion back-up in Superboy #195 (Ju'73) featured the first appearance of the first Bronze Ag
Read more…*I think that Michael Cera is this generation's John Cusack.
*Sex Bob-Omb is now my favorite fictional band.
*I still think they did a perfect job with casting.
I have a very understanding wife. I buy quite a few archival reprint collections, yet very seldom (if ever) am I called upon to justify my purchases, yet to my surprise, that very thing happened when I came home with the first volume of Archie: The C
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Take a look at the above promotion my comic shop sent me this week. I think the increase in single issue prices (even with the reductions from DC and Marvel last week)
Read more…Clark and I have started...anyone else pick it up?
Read more…Marvel Masterworks: Thor Vol. 9 presents a picture of a title in transition. It features (in order) five issues by Jack Kirby, one by John Buscema, another by Kirby, two by Neal Adams and two more by Buscema (issues #173-183). Inkers include Bill Eve
Read more…In honor of Mr.Silver Age entering this forum, I offer this topic.
As I was flipping through some "Showcase Presents" volumes, I got to "SP: Batman, Volume 2". With its artwork alternating from Carmine Infantino to *ahem* Bob Kane, it presented suc
Read more…Thinking about the comics that I read in the 70s (my Golden Age), certain characters stand out more that others. Surprisingly one is the Golem from "Strange Tales" #174 (Ju'75). I don't remember how I got that issue but it left an impact on me. He ha
Read more…DC ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES BI-COASTAL REALIGNMENT STRATEGY
MULTI-MEDIA AND DIGITAL BUSINESSES RELOCATE TO LOS ANGELES WHILE DC COMICS PUBLISHING TO REMAIN IN NEW YORK CITY
Press Release
Over at Mister Silver Age's forum (glad that's up and running again), I wrote about how the super-villains gathered by Doctor Destiny in Justice League of America #61 (Operation:Jail the Justice League) were a bit lacking. Luthor and the Penguin, fin
Read more…I watched the "Batman: Under the Red Hood" animated DVD (not for the kiddies!) and at the beginning, two defeated thugs helpfully give out expostion by telling us that Nightwing was the first Robin.
Is this true in the comic book DCU? I always thou
Read more…DC Universe Legacies #6 is another beautifully drawn issue, this time penciled by Jerry Ordway and inked by George Perez. As the cover blurb indicates, this issues covers the aftermath of the Crisis through the events depicted in the Legends limited
Read more…Would he disregard what Grant has done? How would he approach the character and his history?
Johnny Witts? We've recently seen what happened to Roy Reynolds, the Getaway Genius, but has anything been done with Johnny Witts Post-Crisis/Zero Hour/Superboy's Fists?
First of all I’d like to say how excited I am to be able to report that someone at Dark Horse finally came around to my point of view and changed the paper of their Gold Key reprints (this one, anyway) to a stock that better showcases the original co
Read more…Which characters, which villains, which story? What depiction of Star City?
This discussion has been coming to a slow boil on the back burner of my mind for some time now, but it’s finally been moved to the front. For anyone who cares to dig your backissues out of the longbox to better follow along, you have until tomorrow t
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