During the 60s and 70s, Amazing Spider-Man featured the Wall-Crawler meeting a lot of super-heroes from the early days of the Fantastic Four and especially the Human Torch, the Hulk and Daredevil to Romita era Iceman, Quicksilver, Ka-Zar, Medusa and
Read more…In the 70s and 80s, DC and Marvel paired up their heroes with the two Superman/Spider-Man books, Batman and the Hulk and the X-Men/Teen Titans special. After the disastrous attempt at Justice League/Avengers, the crossovers continued but on DC's side
Read more…In one of those strange coincidents that happens on this forum, I went to my storage unit to retrieve my ROM, Spaceknight only to discover that my brother filled my room up with his baby furniture so I had neither the time or the energy to dig them o
Read more…This is where my Golden Age (as Mister Silver Age wisely says) begins. Though that's not entirely true as my first comic was Justice League of America #103, but I read this one two or three years later.
I'm also going to split this up by issues at le
Read more…In The Avengers #120-123, our heroes took on the crime cartel known as Zodiac, based on the constellations. Now only two of these guys had super powers and they had some advanced weapondry from somewhere. But I vividly recall how seven of them, and n
Read more…In comments that I have made here and in Mister Silver Age's forum (may it rise again), I have asserted that the DC Multiverse (Pre-Crisis) had contained several versions of Plastic Man and, by extension, Blackhawk. But then I started thinking down a
Read more…In Justice League #54, the new JLA takes on a new version of longtime DC unattached villain, Eclipso. Of course, Eclipso debuted in House of Secrets #61(Au'63) and lasted until #80 (O'66). He was remembered for three main reasons. One, from #63 to #6
Read more…With his return in Chaos War: Dead Avengers, the Swordsman has reappeared in the Marvel Universe after thirty-five years. His death was the first true Avenger fatality and one that had, until now, stuck. The French Fencer debuted in Avengers #19 (Au'
Read more…As I was researching my theory on Green Arrow's attitude (see my JLA/JSA Team-Ups thread), I was going over new JLA members and I recalled a poll taken to decide the next one. Since my JLA collection is here and not in storage, a little rummaging fou
Read more…In November's Batman/Catwoman: Follow the Money one-shot, Howard Chaykin uses as the bad guy Golden Age Bat-villain, the Cavalier, out of the blue, really. The Romantic Rogue has a reputation of being a lightweight character, a reputation well-deserv
Read more…Kid Eternity was a big star over at Quality Comics during the 40s, being featured in Hit Comics #25-60 (D'42-S'49) and 18 issues of his own titles (Spr'46-N'49). A good career in anyone's eyes. In fact, based on popularity and longevity, he should ha
Read more…As I need a holiday (a long holiday) from Morrison's Gotham, I decided to revisit Central City from a more innocent time. Or was it? The first year or so that I read comics was a particularly fatal time as both the Invisible Kid and the Swordsman die
Read more…I consider myself fortunate that when I began reading comics, DC converted several titles to 100 pages. These were goldmines for classic Golden and Silver Age gems and classics. The new lead story, not so much. World's Finest #223 (My-Ju'74) introduc
Read more…Braggadoom? Yes, Braggadoom.
He first (and last?) appeared in Marvel Two-In-One #13 (Ja'76) which featured The Thing teaming up with Luke Cage, Power Man. Luke debuted in 1972 in Hero For Hire #1 and in his first years integrated himself into the M
Read more…This is my first Legion "Fan of Bronze" piece so I'm a little nervous! And yes, I did read Marvel as a kid and am planning to cover some of those soon!
The Legion back-up in Superboy #195 (Ju'73) featured the first appearance of the first Bronze Ag
Read more…Thinking about the comics that I read in the 70s (my Golden Age), certain characters stand out more that others. Surprisingly one is the Golem from "Strange Tales" #174 (Ju'75). I don't remember how I got that issue but it left an impact on me. He ha
Read more…Over at Mister Silver Age's forum (glad that's up and running again), I wrote about how the super-villains gathered by Doctor Destiny in Justice League of America #61 (Operation:Jail the Justice League) were a bit lacking. Luthor and the Penguin, fin
Read more…In December, Marvel is releasing the hardcover "Avengers: The Coming of the Beast" which reprints #137-140 and #145-146 (Jl-O'75) and (Ma-Ap'76). Those issues are vivid ones from my childhood so I will walk through them again with some comments. Of c
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