I was glancing at the latest press releases by Marvel on their website and see there's a big monster push for the current title "Journey into Mystery" starring SIF.... but the hook is that the artist is 're-imagining several of the early JIM monsters
Read more…I was glancing at a number of classic X-men covers in the original series, all drawn by Jack Kirby. It occurs to me that if you allow these scenes to animate, that is, in your minds eye, they were more than carefully composed.... they were cluttered
Read more…It seemed pretty obvious to me back in the 1960s, that Marvel had three split books that featured two super-heroes in a book. They were the books that weren't named for the lead characters, like Spider-Man or X-men or Daredevil.
These books had unus
Read more…Here is it at last, the last Ask Mr. Silver Age column, from CBG #1699"
Imitation was the sincerest form of getting a plot started in DC’s Silver Age
DC’s Great Pretenders!
Dear Mr. Silver Age,
Your column on heroes and villains who disguised thems
Read more…When I was a kid, my family would tend to take long driving vacations to one end of the country or another during the summer.
This was the time period of "Discover the USA" campaigns by the auto industry and gas industry to "See the USA".
But for me,
Read more…I've been struggling with how to categorize the phases that both Tales to Astonish and Tales of Suspense, and Amazing Fantasy as well... progress through the year.
It would be fairly easy to split up the years or so between 1959 and 1963 into perfe
Read more…Over at Mister Silver Age's 12 Questions thread, Kirk G asked about the Composite Superman which inspired me suddenly to do write about World's Finest Comics #142 (Ju'64) which I first read when it was reprinted in World's Finest #223 (Ju'74), ten ye
Read more…Medusa was first introduced in FF #36 in a flashback told by the Wizard as he muses over how fortunate it was that Paste Pot Pete (soon, the Trapster) and Sandman stole a jet plane after breaking out of prison and snagged him from floating away in t
Read more…I notice that Marvel has announced the second volume of the Thor Omnibus due out this March.
The issues collected will include Journey into Mystery #121 through Thor #152 and a few assorted other featurettes, like NBE and other comedy parody.
Basic
Read more…Since his debut in 1962, the ever-Incredible Hulk has been one of Marvel's more bankable stars appearing in several titles, cartoons, a fondly remembered TV series, two movies and the highlight of the hit film The Avengers. The Hulk has comic timing!
Read more…I just received Volume 3 of THE FLASH CHRONICLES to-day , following DC's SA Scarlet Speedster through issues #113-118 by which time he had been promoted to eight-times-yearly status , I see .
I'm short for time so I'll just put that starter up...
Read more…We started discussing digital comics in the what should be collected next thread, and since that often becomes a longer topic, I figured I'd see if I could separate it out and possibly draw more attention to it and keep it from being a tangent there.
Read more…Recently on another website, a blogger has been posting cover scans from the various Fantastic Four books from the mid to late 1960s. Most have been covers, but some internal pages have been scanned or snapped and shared in tribute to the King.
Amon
Read more…I'm pleased to say that the Silver Age Trivia Panel returns to the Chicago Comics & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) this year!
Come see comics trivia geek (and, oh yeah, Eisner-winning DD writer) Mark Waid take on a team of Fans to see who knows more usele
Read more…Ever since Fantastic Four #1, debate has raged over whether it was truly possible that the Mole Man might have been based upon a real incident.
Now we have proof:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51007724/displaymode/1247?beginSlide=1
Read more…Over on the John Byrne Forum, they have a set of 12 questions for posters to answer. The questions offer a chance to think back to those hazy, crazy first days of comics reading, when everything was new and memorable.
For this group, thinking back th
Read more…The latest issue of The Jack Kirby Collector arrived from TwoMorrows Publications last night.
This issue features all Fantastic Four related content! --a real thrill for any Kirby fan... at only $9.31 !!!
There's a great multiple page transcript of
Read more…Somebody on this forum suggested something about Pacific Comics' "Edge of Chaos" and like an impulsive fool, I went and ordered 1-3 and now can only find 1-2 in my "to be read" pile.
So, I flip on the scanner and while I position the first issue face
Read more…There's a cool graphic circulating on the internet right now. I saw it being liked on Facebook.
It's a cool blue ghosty portrait of the late Jack Kirby surrounded by the ghosts of the chacters that he drew/created. The picture is by Alex Ross and i
Read more…For those of us who have been around the net together since the Compuserve Information Service days, I consider it appropriate that the last item in the last Ask Mr. Silver Age column in the last issue of Comics Buyers Guide should be a reference to
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