When I started searching for back issues at yard sales and flea markets as a youngster, I bought DC Special #14 (O'71) which was the second Wanted: The World's Most Dangerous Villains collection that led to the short-lived though sorely missed reprin
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"It's only recently that someone pointed out here in Captain Comic's land, that Avengers #3 &4, and FF #25 & 26 form a long continued story of "The Hulk in NY"."
"Captain America Joins The Avengers" was (after FF ANNUAL #3) my first real exp
OK, there's been a lot of debate over these start and stop points for years, but I'm wondering if there's any real consensus on these point nowadays.
Silver Age- Most DC fans will point to the first appearance of the Silver Age Flash in (what, Show
Read more…There was an unusual announcement in the Bullpen Page announcement that as of next month Daredevil and Iron Man were going to be combined into the same book, possibly as a split book.
It was odd, as it seemed to come out of the blue, and at a time w
Read more…In the late 1960s, there was an effort by Marvel to position a new horror/mystery anthology book called "Tower of Shadows". It was heavily promoted in in-house ads and blurbs in the Bullpen Page.
The lead issue and lead story was a creation by Jim S
Guess who got a new laptop this week? I'm back online! You may all groan now!
This one is a bit brief but I'm going for quality rather than quantity here.
In about March of 1966, DC comics added go-go checks across the top edge of the Superman issue for that month.
The practice was continued until issue #199, a race between Supes and Flash, just prior to the 200th issue about Nov.-Dec. 1967.... lasting
In more ways than was intended. My column in this month's print issue had some production problems, but that doesn't affect you guys, who benefit by being able to read it right away on-line!
And you'll want to do that, so you'll be able to impress yo
Read more…I realized today we're halfway through summer, and that brought to mind that when I was a kid during the Silver Age, summer meant Marvel annuals! I didn't become a Marvel fan until a couple of years after they started, but you can believe I caught up
Read more…Yes, I remember Fantasy Masterpieces Marvel Super-Heroes, a great 25 cent squarebound book that served for a while as the showcase for new ideas, one-shot try-outs, and odd-pieces.
Originally titled Fantasy Masterpieces, the book began life as a
Read more…This was the first Marvel Annual I bought, Fantastic Four Annual #3, 1965. I had only been reading Marvel for a few months by this time, so seeing all these characters in one story was quite a revelation to young Hoy. It also was my first comic book
Beyond the whole "secret identity" thing which some members shared while others didn't, what did the Silver Age JLA heroes keep to themselves?
Superman: besides Batman who knew all this stuff, the Man of Steel didn't tell the team about his cousin an
Read more…More of the same for early next year.
Showcase Presents: Justice League of America Vol. 6
$19.99
528 pages
January 29, 2013
Collects: Justice League of America #107-132
In this new, value-priced collection of stories from the 1970s, the Justice Lea
Read more…If we don't have one already, it seems we should have a general thread for all things Spidey.
Here's a post from the Masterworks board, initially in response to a question about John Romita inking Ross Andru. Gerry Conway's run on the book, in many w
The line of Marvel Super Hero Squad figures isn't quite dead, apparently. Today I bought this tie-in to the Amazing Spider-Movie, featuring Lizard, Spider-Man and Gwen Stacy. There are two other three-packs available, one of which features Green Gobl
Read more…The moment you've all been waiting for has arrived: Time to test your brains' capability to remember absolutely otherwise useless information about Marvel and DC's Silver Age comics!
Answer them as quickly as you can (with no outside references!) and
Read more…What about Elvis Presley as a presence/inspiration in Silver Age comic books , including parodies and " just like/wink wink " versions ?
Read more…With The Amazing Spider-Man about to be released, I thought let's ask some wall-crawling questions:
I had a couple of interesting Hawk-queries so I pulled out the appriopiate Archives and Showcases to get some more and by Polaris, I did! Starting with a real world one....
It seems to me that over the years, Hercules continually screws up by either trusting a pretty woman, or by failing to consider that "a pretty face might hide an evil mind." (to paraphrase Johnny Rivers in "Secret Agent Man".)
While this may be consi
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