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.…
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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…
Marvel in the Silver Age: Mighty Marvel Firsts
WHEN I WAS TEN, nothing could beat the excitement of finding a “split cover” Marvel on the newsagent spinner rack.…
Marvel in the Silver Age: Thor
BACK WHEN THOR FIRST APPEARED IN 1963 he wasn’t actually a god. Just a disabled American doctor who, through pure…
Marvel in the Silver Age: Thor
LAST TIME, WE LEFT THOR standing amid the ruins of deserted mansion, having defeated Mr Hyde and The Cobra, holding…