Marvel in the Silver Age: My Top Ten DCs of the Early 1960s: Part 2
Five years after Supergirl first appeared, DC Comics gave us an expanded version of Supergirl’s origin in the two-part tale,…
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Marvel in the Silver Age: Marvel, Magic and Strange Tales: Part 1
Mandrake the Magician launched as a daily newspaper strip on 11 Jun 1934. A little less than four years later,…
Marvel in the Silver Age: Marvel, Magic and Strange Tales: Part 2
I DON’T THINK STAN LEE LIKED DOCTOR STRANGE, at least not at first. In a letter to Jerry Bails dated…
Marvel in the Silver Age: Marvel, Magic and Strange Tales: Part 3
BACK IN THE MAGICAL DAYS OF MY YOUTH, Steve Ditko was my favourite artist and Spider-Man was my favourite comic.…
Marvel in the Silver Age: Captain Marvel: Part 1
THE ORIGINS OF CAPTAIN MARVEL ARE MIRED in a minefield of trademark and copyright legal battles, some ill-advised, most poorly…
Marvel in the Silver Age: Captain Marvel: Part 2
MARVEL COMICS MIGHT HAVE OWNED THE NAME CAPTAIN MARVEL, but I’m not entirely sure writer Stan Lee quite knew what…
Marvel in the Silver Age: Captain Marvel: Part 3
A YEAR ON FROM THE GREAT MARVEL EXPLOSION OF 1968 and it was becoming noticeable that Martin Goodman’s grand plan…
Marvel in the Silver Age: More Marvel Cowboys: Kid Colt
BACK IN THE 1960s IT WAS THE SUPERHEROES THAT CAUGHT MY ATTENTION. First, the colourful DC heroes like Flash and…
Marvel in the Silver Age: Yet More Marvel Cowboys
OLD-TIME FANS TEND TO THINK OF GHOST RIDER as an obscure, short-lived cowboy character from Marvel’s late 1960s expansion period.…
Marvel in the Silver Age: Yet more Marvel Cowboys
THE GHOST RIDER HAD ENJOYED A LONG RUN at his original home, Vin Sullivan’s Magazine Enterprises, from late 1949 right…