Golden Age Marvel Timely
Escape to the Past 4.5: Toro!
This is such a great visual of Toro diving into water. Above water, he’s still on fire but as his head and arms go under his flame is extinguished.
Golden Age Marvel Timely
Escape to the Past #4: Steve Dahlman & Electro
While Superman and Batman on the DC side and The Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner on the Timely/Marvel side are all of course hugely important, it can be the lower key discoveries that jump off the page at you.
Book Review Bronze Age Howard the Duck Marvel
Marvel Masterworks Vol. 300: Howard the Duck
I’ve been slowly catching up with the Marvel Masterworks program but I just had to jump ahead and get this special 300th volume. Featuring a duck trapped in a world run by hairless apes: Marvel Masterworks Vol. 300: Howard the Duck!
Golden Age Marvel Timely
Escape to the Past #3: The Blue Blaze!
In my continuing flight away from 2020 I switch over to Marvel precursor Timely’s obscure superhero oddity, the Blue Blaze.
Batman DC Comics Golden Age
Escape to the Past #2: Batman & Detective Comics #27
Yeah, that’s right. That’s Batman (or the Bat-Man as he’s called in the story here), the creature of the night. The Dark Knight Detective. The Caped Crusader with his jaunty purple gloves and really awkward looking wings/cape. And… ears. Those weird ears…
DC Comics Golden Age Superman
Escape to the Past #1: Superman & Action Comics #1
Sod 2020 and let’s go back to the beginning of superhero comics with Superman and Action Comics #1!
General Horror
What the Hell 2020?!
This has not been a good year for anybody let alone anyone who suffers from anxiety. Doesn’t help that this year seems to be taking plot points from V for Vendetta, Watchmen and other Alan Moore works I can’t think of off the top of my head.
Bronze Age Marvel The Hulk The Incredible Hulk
The Hulk Completist – The 1970s
Continuing where I left off with the 1960s, lets see how collecting the Hulk comics from the 1970s pans out.
Marvel Silver Age The Hulk The Incredible Hulk
The Hulk Completist – The 1960s
The Hulk was the first comic book character I really got into as a kid. So when I started collecting comics again, the Jade Giant was a natural place to start.
Lets see whether it’s possible to get close to a complete run of the Hulk in book form.
DC Comics Silver Age The Doom Patrol
The Doom Patrol The Silver Age Vol. 1 : Did DC Accidentally Make a Marvel Book?
It’s the early/mid 1960s, Marvel Comics are starting to make serious headway with their line of superheroes. They have arguments, squabbles and other personal troubles which go way beyond the bland ‘competent man’ mould of DC’s line of superheroes.