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.…
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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…
Marvel in the Silver Age: Thor
FOR MOST OF 1965, Journey into Mystery, Marvel’s vehicle for the adventures of Thor, had increasingly come to focus on…
Marvel in the Silver Age: Shadow of the Bat
BEFORE I DISCOVERED MARVEL COMICS IN THE MID-1960S, I was something of a Batman fan, specifically the stories of the…
Marvel in the Silver Age: Marvel Ad-Men
FROM THE EARLIEST DAYS OF MARVEL COMICS, in 1939, through the final months of Publisher Martin Goodman’s tenure around 1971,…