I recall always thinking from the start that the name "Namor" was odd...
I wasn't sure why.
As a child, I asked my mom how to pronounce "Sub-Mariner" and got the correct interpretation based upon "the rhyme of the Ancient Mariner".
But when I asked
Has anyone else heard about this ?
I see their Facebook page ~ " An old school comics convention , put on by veterans of the old San Diego Comics-Con " . I don't have time to put a link up now .
Read more…Someplace in the 70s, Marvel comics started printing full color "stamps" in the letters pages of their comics. Each one was numbered, and represented a different hero or character.
Was there ever a master list of characters by numbers, or issue by i
Read more…With Aquaman once more an important figure in DCnU (at least while Geoff Johns is writing him), I have a few queries about the Sea King from the Silver Age:
Being in a patriotic mood today, I decided to read Ess it ential Captain America Vol 1 together with Essential Avengers Vol 1 and came up with some queries about the Star-Spangled Avenger so:
With all the discussion about Jimmy Olsen here, I got to thinking about our Carrot-Topped Cub Reporter a bit and came up with these:
It took awhile before the Justice Leaguers decided to share their secret identities with all of the members as part of the deal. That doesn't mean none of them knew at least one person's identity, as Mr. Silver Age explains in this month's CBG column
Read more…What were your views on The Mighty Comics Group; Archie's attempt to copy Stan Lee's editorial style crossed with some very 'high camp' TV Batman stories?
I remember managing to pick up a lot of these second-hand in the mid-70's and I liked them in
Someplace in the mid 1960s, about '67 if I recall, there was a line of Harvey superhero books put out that only briefly appeared on the spinner racks.
It seems to me that the first title was something like "Spyman" and he had a robotic hand.
An age
Read more…Something I've always wondered, and I'm sure one of the experts will know this straight way, but what was the deal with the MCG logo that some '60s Marvel comics had on their covers for a short period of time? Was it some experiment with their own ve
Read more…I was reading a story reprinted from World's Finest back during the Robin-Olsen pairing, and it made me wonder: just how old was Jimmy supposed to be? He was dating an adult woman, but was also an honorary member of the Legion Of Superheroes, which m
Read more…Robin Olsen:
I just can't help thinking that Kirby's sales figures didn't help his cause any, either, and maybe not enough READERS were "accepting" Kirby's more ambitious stuff"
Okay, folks. Let's focus. I wanna hear what DC comics WERE "successes" i
I was reading the advance excerpts from the new book "Marvel Comics: The Untold Story" that is due out October 9th.
I am very interested in this, as it gave me insight into a era of Marvel Comics that I had tuned away from as a young man in high sch
Okay , here's a thought .
I jst recently bought , at my LCS , a Marvel Milestone Edition facsmile reprint of the entirety of FANTASTIC FOUR #1 - for a dollar .
Let's try re-reading this story , with what we know now .
It's been manymanymany tim
Read more…In another thread, we've been discussing which of the Avengers knew their secret identies.
This brought up the confusion over the membership of the villian's group, "Zodiac" and just who were their original line-up.
It seems to me that Cornelius Van
Read more…Yesterday , I bought FILMFAX , ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE* , THE STRAND , and an OTR-focused thing titled NOSTALGIA DIGEST...I almost bought FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION , but money was low...! Get the picture ??
Let's discuss " real " - um , new
Read more…These guys wanted to be super-heroes in the worst way--and that's just the way they chose to do it:
-- MSA
Read more…There are lots of examples of ideas, pairings, combinations and plot-twists that occur early in comics, and are seemingly forgotten before someone else picks them up and runs with them.
Let me point on one or two that I'm aware of as examples:
In the
Read more…In the 1960-70s, the covers of House of Secrets frequently featured the same few kids in dangerous situations.
They weren't always aware that they were at risk, perhaps being threatened by a supernatural threat or one sees the threat, and is about to
Read more…My most immediate inspiration for this was the latest issue of HARPER'S , which included a short story titled:
BATMAN AND ROBIN HAVE AN ALTERCATION
by Stephen King !!!!!!!!!!!
I'm sure it's an " ironic " reference .
I haven't read the story yet .
A
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