We all agree (hopefully) that the Golden Age of Comics began with Action Comics #1 (Ju'38) with Superman on the cover. And we all know that Superman didn't reappear on the cover until #7 (D'38). When I was researching one of those darn Twenty Questio
Read more…Yesterday when I was pulling the cash register drawer from the pharmacy that I work, I found that someone had paid with a roll of dimes, which they opened. To my amazement, the dimes were very old, the earliest being several Mercury dimes from 1941!
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
Silver Surfer #98
November 1994
Cover art by: Joe Phillips
Story: Temptation: Power
Writer: Ron Marz
Pencils: Jim Hall
Inks: Tom Christopher
There isn't much I like about that cover, but it does actually look like the Silver Surfer is surfing on a
Read more…Cover dated July 2000, DC published one of their semi-regular monthly events dubbed Silver Age, a supposedly fond look back at the halcyon days of its books from the 1960s. It was spearheaded by Mark Waid, Brian Augustyn, Kurt Busiek and others. Thei
With the premiere of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, one can't help but consider the Silver Age comics version that began with STRANGE TALES #135 (Au'65) in response to the Spy Craze that hit the Sixties. At that time Pop Culture was dominated by the Thre
Read more…Legion of Super-heroes #305
November 1983
Cover art by: Keith Giffen & Larry Mahlstedt
Story: Violet's Story
Writer: Paul Levitz
Pencils: Keith Giffen
Inks: Kurt Schaffenberger
Legion Roll Call: Braniac 5, Chameleon Boy, Shrinking Violet, Colossal
Read more…Legion of Super-heroes #273
March 1981
Cover art by: Rich Buckler & Steve Mitchll
Story: A Murderer--Among Us?
Writer: Gerry Conway
Pencils: Jimmy Janes
Inks: Frank Chiaramonte
Marte Ida Allon, Colossal Boy's mom and president of the United Planet
Read more…It seemed pretty obvious to me back in the 1960s, that Marvel had three split books that featured two super-heroes in a book. They were the books that weren't named for the lead characters, like Spider-Man or X-men or Daredevil.
These books had unus
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Have you ever stoped to think about how many years "Marvel" was keeping it's head above water with these monsterbooks before they tried the superhero thing? It's not hard to calculate. Divide 12 (months) into the number of issues in the title to det
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…There are, really, only four silver age comic book titles that hold up today...for me.
Carl Barks' Disney work.
Most of the Archie titles.
The Amazing Spider-Man by Lee, Ditko, and Romita, Sr.
The Incredible Hulk by Lee, Kirby, Ditko and friends.
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