I saw this TCM-plugging national event , here in its Surf City docking , of the first two movies in the Universal James Whale-Boris Karloff Frankenstein franchise ( Hah !!!!!!!!! Annoyingly using " modern " language ...,) showing theatrically , I dar
Read more…1)"Hoist up your skirts, Peri, off we go!"
2)Why is the Master dressed as a scarecrow? I'm starting to think he just likes dressing up.
3)"Peri, how would like to meet a genius?" "I thought I already had."
4)I gather Ainley wasn't wild about having t
Read more…Adventure Comics #438
April 1975
Cover art by: Jim Aparo
Story: The Spectre Haunts the Museum of Fear
Writer: Michael Fleischer
Pencils: Ernie Chan
Inks: Jim Aparo
Kind of weird to me to see Jim Aparo inking someone else's work. Still it looks gr
Read more…I was thinking about writing a column about the five Captain America stories you should read after seeing "Winter Soldier," like I did for Superman after "Man of Steel." But with Superman it was really easy to think of five great stories; in fact, I
Read more…The original Baltar anyway and the story gives a nice rundown on it. It takes place after they strand Baltar on a planet. I've often wondered about Baltar's motivations and the inconsistencies between the Baltar who's watching a city burn and orderin
Read more…Before I start the discussion on Starman: Sins of the Father Vol.1 on Sunday (hopefully), I thought that I would get the historical info out of the way.
STARMAN (Ted Knight) first appeared in Adventure Comics #61 (Ap'41), created by the prolific Gard
Read more…In honor of Star Trek Into Darkness, I wish to discuss Gold Key's Star Trek #1 (Jl'67) which I read as part of Golden Press' Star Trek: The Enterprise Logs (1976). There are three criteria that I want to examine:
I was thinking about Reed Richards recently. When Fantastic Four began, Reed was a gutsy, he-man type who also happened to be extremely smart. These days he's a guy who's really smart, but it seems all the rest has been left by the wayside. If you
Read more…A ways back , at the old home , MSA expounded upon the syndicated PEANUTS re-runs of early-60s strips and how he thought a " day of the year " one that ran a coupla days apart from that actual day showed how wrong this concept was , and also that the
Read more…A number of us were mulling this question over, and trying to define just what is a cross-over, as opposed to a "guest-star" or a "cameo".
One of the earliest cross-overs might have been the Avengers showing up in the Fantastic Four #25-26... but oth
Read more…I'm not a parent, but it strikes me that this one of those moments that produce both pride and worry. http://www.gocomics.com/stonesoup/#.Uzg2PN3GHaw
Read more…Daredevil was always a favorite of mine and easy to collect. Unfortunately he spent his Silver Age as a definite Marvel B-Lister and a weaker version of Spider-Man. His title was never one of Marvel's best sellers and was almost cancelled at least on
Welcome back, Legionnaires, for another exciting episode of "Comics Guide!"
Let's try a couple of different things this week.
One, I'm going to go with plain, old bold with my comments, instead of the bold blue I have used to date. For one thing, I
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…Recently, we've seen an explosion in the Avengers family of titles...
If memory serves, we have at least:
The Mighty Avengers
The dark Avengers
Avengers Academy
New Avengers
Secret Avengers
Solo Avengers
and many of these titles have already reached
Read more…Medusa was first introduced in FF #36 in a flashback told by the Wizard as he muses over how fortunate it was that Paste Pot Pete (soon, the Trapster) and Sandman stole a jet plane after breaking out of prison and snagged him from floating away in t
Read more…I'm continuing my project to read the Marvel comics of the Silver Age in the order they were published and I'm still discovering "new" things. For instance, when I started reading them in the mid-1960s, continued stories were the norm and part of the
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