We don't have a CAPTAIN AMERICA thread??? Well, we do NOW.
I'm trying to put together some coloring samples, and I figured it would be good if I had a variety of artists. So, a quick look around at what was on my computer, and here was this wond Read more…
Wow! Look at what family-friendly Comics Buyers Guide is publishing!
Is this why we can't get sequels to Baby Boomer Comics and 1,000 Comics You Must Read?
Hoy
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There weren't any further Silver Age revivals from the Golden Age after the Spectre (as far as I know - does Red Tornado count?), which has always been a disappointment to me. I think Wildcat, Black Canary and Dr Fate would have made interesting rebo
Read more…Just added another page to my blog, this one spotlighting restorations of STRANGE TALES covers featuring
Nick Fury, Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D.!
http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2011/11/nick-fury-agent-of-shield.html
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Okay, we're done to the last week or so before Halloween. Time to get serious about what character you're going to be this year.
here's a link for a great home-made costume. Enjoy.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Last-minute-Doctor-Octopus-costum
Read more…I note that the final volume of Marvel masterworks reprints of Tales to Astonish #31-51,54 is about to be released. I started to wonder how many more issues of TTA were necessary before they caught up to the appearance of the Sub-mariner in #70...Ta
Read more…Nick Simon forwarded to me the link to this interview which contains, among other things, Don's REJECTED cover for AVENGERS #37 (the one replaced by an ugly-as-sin Gil Kane cover, which itself was replaced in the 70's reprint by a new one by Jack Kir
Read more…I just got an ad email from a retailer that seems to specialize in a lot of graphic novels, collections, trades, etc.
While I haven't shopped these sorts of things in the past, I find they have good prices, and I have picked up a couple of things f
Read more…My first Avengers story was Marvel Triple Action #22 (N'74) which reprinted Avengers #28 which was the return/debut of Henry Pym as Goliath. I commented on this at Mister Silver Age's forum. In a nutshell, Pym can only stay giant-size for fifteen min
Read more…Following the announcement of Essential Sgt. Fury Vol. 1, now we get this! I'm really excited about this, seeing more Kirby art I've never seen before. Some people, including, I believe, our own Dave Blanchard, consider this series to be the first "r
Read more…My latest column for CBG, on all the fun Superboy had during his hazy, crazy days in school has been posted to the CBG website. You can read it here: http://cbgxtra.com/columnists/craig-shutt-ask-mr-silver-age/superboys-school-daze-ask-mr-silver-age-
Marvel is finally getting on the ball with this one:
Essential Sgt Fury TP Vol 01
Expected to ship 11/09/11
$19.99
544 pages
Written by STAN LEE. Penciled by JACK KIRBY & DICK AYERS. Stand at attention, soldier, and get ready for a super-size K-rat
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I recall seeing Fantastic Four Annual #4 on the spinner rack within a month or two of my starting to buy the Fantastic Four with issue #55.
I flipped through it, to try to understand WHY there were two human torches fighting on the cover.
Clearly, on
Read more…I was impressed when Marvel rushed a black cover Spider-man issue out immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001 disaster. I know a lot of people bought a copy then, and it doesn't fit in any continuity.
The individual artwork pages by artists trying to c
I decided to comment on Silver Age stories that I read either as reprints or back issues that left an impression on me. Today I pick Adventure Comics #362-363 (N-D'67) "The Chemoids Are Coming!/Black Day For the Legion!" by a young Jim Shooter and Ca
Read more…Fans of Silver and Bronze Age comics by Jack Kirby are probably buying the Kirby Genesis series currently being published by Dynamite Entertainment. It's fast-moving fun featuring a lot of "new" Kirby characters written by Kurt Busiek with art by Jac
Read more…For those of us born after 1966, or at least reading Amazing Spider-Man after issue #40, when Jazzy John Romita Senior showed us the identity of the Green Goblin, we have always accepted the fact that the original Green Goblin was Norman Osborn.
But
I don't think I've mentioned this here, but I have two theories on Silver Age Marvel and Kang that I really wish that some Marvel Editor would listen to and consider.
Yes, I know they don't accept unsolicited story ideas, and certainly would not list
