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
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
Read more…Hot on the heels of Saga Brian K. Vaughan launched The Private Eye, a digital-only collaboration with artist Marcos Martin. It's a very forward looking format: DRM-free comics (in PDF, CBR or CBZ format, so they can be read in most comic book viewers
Read more…If you’ve got a favorite adventure character you haven’t seen lately, chances are you can find she, he or it at Dynamic Forces.
While most publishers tend to avoid licensing characters – paying for the license cuts into profits – Dynamic Forces, publ
Read more…To me since I've only known him in the past few years he's always been like Tony Stark, a guy who will do the right thing but only after manipulating, abusing and down right stabbing his colleagues in the back, a character so borderline that it pu
Read more…On Jan. 22, Marvel Comics shipped Miracleman #1 to comics shops across America. Miracleman isn’t a very well-known character, but he is one with a rich history, one whose book has boasted some of the finest talent in the biz and one who has attracted
Read more…If you have not seen the new documentary, PARTICLE FEVER, do so. It is a film which documents the building and launch of the Hadron Particle Collider in Switzerland. If you are familiar with DC Comic History and the role of Krona, you will understa
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