The 2016 Silver Age Trivia Challenge lived up to its motto of “When Titans Clash!” (patent pending) as Mark Waid took on a team of fans in the annual battle for the Silver Age Trivia crown.
Owing to the tragic loss only a few weeks earlier of long-ti
Read more…I'm running late, as I do in most things, but here's a Silver Anniversary birthday wish to our pal Craig Shutt, the splendiferous Mr. Silver Age. This also was the first Superman Annual I bought as a small Hoy.
Happy birthday, pal!
Hoy
Almost forgot this year!
Hoy
The band and I want to invite everyone at the Mr. Silver Age Forum to attend the Pro-Fan Silver Age Trivia Challenge at C2E2 in Chicago on Friday, March 18th at 5:30 p.m.
Come test your command of useless superhero facts against King Trivia Geek Mar
Read more…Last year I got unavoidably sidetracked on my resolution from 2012 to read every Silver Age Marvel super-hero comic from Fantastic Four #1 in the order they were published. This year I resumed my mission and I've just finished the issues published in
Read more…I've threatened to do this before (or did I menace?) and now seems to be a good time to do it. This is my personal list of the 10 best fights in Marvel Comics during the Silver Age.
A few thoughts:
* This is my list. You can disagree if you want. Be
Read more…We have a wonderful thread, started by Richard Mantle, that examines the Amazing Spider-Man starting with issue #51. I don't know why it took me so long to realize we don't have a thread that covers Spidey's beginning to the point where Richard star
Read more…With THE VISION now added to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and about to receive his own title (at last!) and since we have been pondering his origins, I thought that it might be interesting to examine his beginnings.
Legend has it that ROY THOMAS wan
Read more…I wonder what this was about? There's no way we can ever know for sure what the thinking about this was. The aptly named Terrible Trio were such bad villains that maybe they though having Dr. Doom on the cover, even as a gag,l would sell a few copies
Read more…With the new Fantastic Four movie about to come out, I thought that I would ask about something that always bothered me. Given the information that we received from Stan and Jack themselves in FANTASTIC FOUR #11, it does seem odd that Reed and Sue we
...MSA , this touches on SA (and a lil' Bronze) concepts , so...
SCTU #9's Superman story is lotsa fun !
MUCH SA and Bronze refernce !
Decent story/okay , too .
But it's the old-time references which are important , really !!!!!!!!!!! Of cour
Read more…This is past the Silver Age a couple of years, but I think we're all tired of the the "Old Ant-Man" and bearded old Superman covers. May you find a cosmic cube to smash.
--your pal, Hoy
He's Tony Stark, a cool exec with a heart of steel. He's a founding Avenger, often called the Golden Avenger. He debuted in Tales of Suspense 39, cover-dated March 1963. Today he's arguably considered an A-lister, largely thanks to the trilogy of
Read more…With possibly two versions of the character appearing in Arrow and the upcoming spin-off, I thought that I would ponder the Blonde Bombshell's Silver and Bronze Age interpretation. I will try not to bring up the 1983 retcon as I have issues with it b
The Silver Age Trivia Panel at C2E2 on Sunday, April 26th was a real barn-burner! It was so close that, for the first time ever, the Fan team (l-r back row: Jason Fliegel, Doug Tonks, Mike Chary and far right Mike Sangiacomo) was in THE LEAD at the e
Word is that Mr. Silver age will be hosting a Trivia panel at C2E2 this weekend and because of the movie this summer, some of the questions will feature my favorite Marvel super-hero, Ant-Man. By coincidence, I just finished reading DC's Atom archive
Read more…It's official! The Pro-Fan Silver Age Trivia panel will take place at 12:15 p.m. on Sunday, April 26th in room S402 at McCormick Place during C2E2!
Here's what the program will say:
"Writer and Trivia Geek King Mark Waid takes on a team of Fans to se
Read more…I'll be reading through the Stan Lee/Steve Ditko Dr. Strange stories as originally published in Strange Tales #110-146. So, let's begin:
Strange Tales #110 - "Dr. Strange Master of Black Magic!"
Cover Date: July 1963
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: Steve Ditk
