I sometimes wonder if any comic book world with superheroes has ever had a competent government. The world government of Earth 2 locked up the people who could helped it prepare for this latest crisis and harassed and tried to lock up others and it's
Read more…This blast from the past appeared in CBG #1579 (Feb 20, 2004), just about a decade ago:
The Mighty Jane Foster!
Don Blake’s nurse came thisclose to marrying the Thunder God of her dreams.But she ended up marrying somebody else instead.
Dear Mr. Sil
Read more…Welcome to another edition of Comics Guide! This week we have a treat for you, and all you have to do is get through my blitherings about the week's notable books. Let's get to work!
THE CAPTAIN'S COMMENTS
It seems every week brings a couple of "All
Read more…Having finished the colossal SPACE CONQUERORS! project at my blog, today I was finally able to set up a page devoted to TIM HOLT / RED MASK from Magazine Enterprises in the early 1950's.
Most of the covers are by Frank Bolle, with a few by Frank Fraz
I finally took the advice someone gave me 6 months ago, and started my own Jack Kirby Facebook group.
I kinda had to. This one [PERSON I DON'T LIKE], one of the 2 reasons I stopped contributiing to the GCD site 5 years ago, managed to fool one of t
Here is a thread on which to discuss the Oscars - the Academy Awards - for this year , 2104 .
They will be on this coming Sunday . I meant to put this up before , actually !!!
Perhaps we can even do some live discussing/posting:-)...........
Read more…FOREVER PEOPLE #1 / Mar’71 – “IN SEARCH OF A DREAM!”
When Jack Kirby went to DC in late 1971, the first thing he did were the first issues of FOREVER PEOPLE, NEW GODS, and MISTER MIRACLE. However, in order to get a quicker return on their “investme
Valiant Comics, which went out of business about 12 years ago, made a comeback under new ownership in 2012. And it only took the new guys two years to achieve Unity.
Unity is the name of Valiant’s version of “Avengers” or “Justice League” – it’s a bo
Read more…Adventure Comics #333
June 1965
Cover art by: Curt Swan & George Klein
Story: The War Between Krypton and Earth!
Writer: Edmond Hamilton
Pencils: John Forte
Inks: George Klein
Members of the Legion are on an archaeological dig when they discover
Read more…There was a time when Archie Comics was famous for being rigidly conservative. Now it’s gaining a reputation for being the most experimental comics publisher in America.
Most of the company’s progressive efforts aren’t obvious to the casual observer.
During the Silver Age, Batman teamed with the majority of DC's solo heroes but not all. Here are some puzzling omissions:
5) Supergirl--despite one weird team-up with Wonder Woman, the Maid of Might never worked with the Caped Crusader as a teen. But
Read more…I rather liked it. The personalities are not exactly the same as the were, Tina seems a bit more mature and Gold a lot more pushy, Lead a little slower, Iron more agressive, but Mercury and Tin were pretty much as I remembered them from the last t
Read more…1959, Gregory Peck, survivors of a nuclear war wait in Australia for the end. I look at this now -and most of the post-apocalyptic stuff I saw in movies and tv for most of my life- and it all seems very... I don't know. Strange? It was the big
Read more…I didn't make it last week, I'm not going to make it today. I've finished my making video game homework, I'm working on my intro to computer graphics homework, I've got to go over those &*#$&*#@$&(@#$ word problems for a math test tomorrow and if
Read more…The New 52 Swamp Thing saga continues. The first part of the collection takes the regular series from Issues #8 - 11, where the main focus is Swamp Thing's battle with the forces of the Rot under Sethe's command. Swampy arrives girded for battle, com
Marvel has been busy of late. About 16 months ago, they re-launched most of their core titles as part of their Marvel Now re-branding: Avengers, Fantastic Four, Iron Man and so on. Currently, Marvel in the midst of another wave of re-launches. H
Read more…I was wondering about this because of the Batman 1966 title. My first thought was who could have played her back then, but then I wonder if the character would have even been allowed to exist either in comics or on the tv. Harley came about by accide
Read more…Action Comics #546
August 1983
Cover art by: Gil Kane
Story: Showdown!
Writer: Marv Wolfman
Art: Gil Kane
Superman is trying to figure out just what is going on with this new version of Brainiac. His supercomputer isn't any help at all, so he leav
Read more…I hate it when people say "infer", thinking it's a fancy way of saying "imply."
--- Richard Willis
I brought this over from Cap's "Comics Guide" discussion because I'm going to go
Read more…When Silver Age Hal Jordan went on the road, in the issues numbered in the high 40"s, he wound up meeting a couple of new girlfriends, Eve Doremus and Olivia Reynolds. What does Mr. Silver Age think of them?
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