I bought a copy of Sean Howe's "Marvel Comics: The Untold Story" and read it almost cover to cover.
(I've stopped short of the last few chapters, because, well frankly, it became just too painful to see again how the company was screwed over, raped,
Read more…And now, something I've been wanting to do for years... the 1966 BATMAN newspaper strip!
Read more…Once upon a time, a four issue mini-series combined the unused members of the Avengers into a small unit on the West Coast, called the West Coast Avengers. The mini-series was written by Roger Stern. And it proved so successful, that an on-going seri
Read more…Recently in another forum on Facebook, a Jack Kirby fan piped up and asked if we had "seen the mini-Magneto at the elbow."
At first I thought he was talking about when Mutant Alpha regressed Magneto back to infancy so that he could relearn his life's
Read more…This question has sparked heated debates among Spider-man fans for years, and even today, flame wars erupt between passionate fans who quarrel over which character was intended to be revealed as which version of the penultimate villain.
Appearing fi
Read more…Ever since Dr. Doom attacked the FF back in #5 to backmail them into going back in time to retrieve Blackbeard's treasure (don't ask!) there's been a plot device waiting in the wings for any writer to use.
It's most commonly called Dr. Doom's Time Ma
Read more…On another forum, someone posted six examples of futuristic vehicles that only Jack Kirby could draw.
That got me thinking about the Fantastic Four's flying car... "the Fantasi-car".
As I recall, in its earliest appearance, it was basically a flying
Read more…Recently posted on another website, a still photo from a MASH TV episode #91 (Jan.6th, 1974) shows Radar O'Reiley sleeping with his teddy bear and a copy of Avengers #60 open face down, under his right hand 
This, of course, must be a continuity erro
Read more…I've been collecting back issues of Amazing Spider-man for a few years now. I know I can easily pick up Masterworks or Essentials but it's more fun to hunt for back issues. It gives me something to do and more of a focus instead of just buying random
Read more…Back in the 1970s, I was shopping at a Meijers grocery store near MSU, when I saw a new innovation. It was a bulk foods section, where you could select, scoop and weigh your own foods, nuts, candies, etc in bulk from large bulk containers. They are
Read more…While in Skagway and Ketchecan, Alaska, I spotted a colorful t-shirt store that sold items that changed color in the sunshine.
That is, when exposed to the infrared light from the sun (or a bulb) the plain white shirt would change it's emblem. Instea
Read more…I've been noticing a drop in Silver Age reprints coming from Marvel and DC the past few months. A lot of it has to do with the fact that most of the good stuff has already been reprinted, especially in Marvel's case. But there is still a lot of prim
Read more…http://black2com.blogspot.com/2013/06/remember-when-von-lmo-sang-imitations.html
An interesting blog , posting about the Joe Orlando-period " DC teens " of the late Silver and early Bronze Ages .
[ Note: This blog may at times feature (mild-" naugh
Read more…I cannot find the post I put up a ways back regarding the recent revival , in a limited run , of the 1966 IT'S A BIRD ! IT'S A PLANE ! IT'S SUPERMAN ! stage musical , using the original 1966 book .
There were no reactions to it:-(...
Now , I have
Read more…A friend on FB posted this panel and wonders where it original came from.
Obviously, the lettering has been altered, but does anyone recognise it? Can you point us in the right direction?
What was going down in the original comic? Was Robin drugg
Read more…Is there something about the fourth issue of a team book that means you have to (re) introduce a new character? Let's consider ...
When I was a kid, storing your comics wasn't a big issue. They weren't considered valuable, nor fragile, and so they got left around and wrinkled, etc. But by the time I was ten, I started reading them as a series, a continued story, and suddenly, k
Read more…Recently I've read in a history of Tower Comics that Steve Ditko stopped by to do some work for them/Wally Wood on some of the issues of the Thunder Agents... on his way to Charleton Comics.
This
Read more…So, I'm reading a book about the life of Charles Addams...best known as the New Yorker cartoonist who's twisted family of gouls became 1964's hit TV show "The Addams Family".
And while the biography fills in a lot of the background of this creative g
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