Happy birthday to our best pal, Mr. Silver Age! May there be many more trivia quizzes and Mopee Awards to come!
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Craig hasn't posted the link to his Ask Mr. Silver Age article about the 1960s Harvey Heroes in Comics Buyers Guide #1680 (Aug. 2011) yet, so I'll try to be helpful and get some discussion going here.
The theme of this issue is comics we'd like to
Read more…In another thread, I brought up the fact that the Silver Age Wonder Woman had a father and now I have to back that up. I went through Showcase Presents Wonder Woman Volumes 1-3 (The pain, the pain! Man was that repetitive stuff!! Not year to year but
Read more…Fear not! This is not a debate about 'When did the Silver Age begin?' but why did the Silver Age begin?
It's pretty much accepted that Showcase #4, starring the debut of the Barry Allen Flash, started the whole Silver Age malarky, but his revival w
Read more…Here's the story in USA Today:
I've been hanging onto the DC train for years waiting for a clear opportunity to jump off, and here it is. Anything they publish from that point on, I'll read the reviews and, if it seems like something I'll like, I'l
Read more…I saw the Thor movie and highly recommend it. I saw it in 2-D and intend to see it again in 3-D. It has a lot of Silver Age sensibility and should appeal to members of this forum, if you're having any doubts.
I had read the Tales of Asgard collecti
The Avengers #16 is well-remembered as the issue where Captain America missed one too many meetings and discovered that the A-listers (Thor, Iron Man, Giant-Man and the Wasp) were leaving and he was left in charge of three former super-villains (Hawk
Read more…I always loved the minor heroes and villains like the Elongated Man, the Swordsman, Hourman, et al. Even characters who appeared only once or twice can be interesting. Certainly there can be untapped potential as well. These are some I always had a s
Read more…My current column from CBG #1679 has been posted at CBGxtra. It details the Pro vs. Fans Trivia Challenge at March's C2E2 convention in Chicago, in which Mark Waid single-handedly battled a panel of Silver Age trivia fans for the championship!
Take t
Read more…While researching and reading about my next JLA/JSA entry and scanning through some of the Commander's excellent articles and Fig's Doom Patrol recollections, I thought I would feature those characters whose origins made sense or were cool and those
Read more…When I stopped reading comics, towards the end of the 70's, I don't remember anything referred to as a Silver Age and certainly not a Bronze Age. I think there was just Golden Age and modern comics. I may be wrong but that's how I remember it.
Anyw
Read more…I'd like to ask about (SPOILERS) some 00s issues of the Superman titles which I had , but had no more .
Book reprints ? SIssues they linked into ? Etcetera . IIRC for all:
ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #612 had the contemporary Superman nmeeting the very
Read more…Also, was they ever any attention given to the idea that different races might age at different rates, or did they just sort of assume that everyone sort of aged at the same rate?
Read more…I pulled out from my bookcase JLA: The Greatest Stories Ever Told which was released to coincide with Indentity Crisis as it reprinted Justice League #166-168 which inspired it. But secret identities were a running theme of the collection. The only c
Read more…While going through Marvel's Book of the Dead--2004, I came across one of the few super-villains with the good taste to stay dead: the original Baron Zemo or Doctor Zemo as he was called. In Avengers #6, he formed the Masters of Evil which for some r
Read more…,,,...( Crossing over from my CBGXtra post )...consisted/consists of her JENNIFER LOVE HEWIIT'S THE MUSIC BOX series , issued by IDW in six more issues than I thought there were :-) !!! and both TPBs are out now per Amazon...
Hey , at least this si
Read more…My latest Ask Mr. Silver Age column has been posted at the CBG Web site:
Superman’s Scary Souvenirs!
The Man of Steel took a space vacation and all Jimmy Olsen got was nearly killed
Check it out here: http://cbgxtra.com/columnists/craig-shutt-as
Read more…This month's Ask Mr. Silver Age column, in Comics Buyer's Guide #1678, is a look at the key comics events of 1971, the year CBG started. It helps celebrate the magazine's 40th anniversary issue. To read what I considered the biggest events, go here:
Read more…An eBay auctioner has posted a page from the legendary Pussycat #1 from Marvel!
I've never actually seen this comic, but I've heard of it many times. It compiled a number of risque strips that had run in Martin Goodman's stag magazines and was publis
Read more…Anyone else remember the " Virus X " story that took up a number of issues of ACTION COMICS in tha late 60s ?
I don't believe its ever been reprinted , at all .
Maybe http://www.superman.nu ?
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