Has there ever been a less anticipated – and more ground-breaking comic – ever released by Marvel Comics?
With the opening of “The Tomb of Dracula” in 1972, the company proved there was a mainstream audience for darker, more mature comics – with stories about a supernaturally cursed mass murderer who needed to feed on the blood of the living.
And what was the purpose of the Comics Code Authority again?
Continue reading “Dracula Rises – and the Marvel Age of Horror Begins!”
Sometimes you just want to see your favorite heroes pound each other to sand.
One of the key things that separated the Marvel Universe from the DC Universe right through the ’70s: Marvel’s heroes punched first and asked questions later.
It was a grand tradition harkening to the Golden Age of Comics when Marvel was Timely Comics and the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner waged war over Manhattan in a series of thrilling duels.
Continue reading “When Titans Clash! And Crash! And Break Lots of Things!”
She’s my daughter!
She’s my sister!
She’s my sister and my daughter!
– “Chinatown” (1974)
In 1983, it took three esteemed DC Comics writers to answer a question nobody was asking – and in doing so create perhaps the creepiest JLA/JSA team-up in history.
Continue reading “The Shocking, Strange, Somewhat Skeevy Secret Origin of Black Canary!”
Super-hero team names are tough.
Have you ever tried coming up with one?
All the good ones are taken.
You have your Justice League, Avengers, Defenders, Teen Titans, Fantastic Four, Doom Patrol, X-Men, Inhumans, Secret Six, Mighty Crusaders, Legion of Super-Heroes, Legion of Substitute Heroes and Legion of Impossibly Silly Twits. (OK, I made that one up.)
And, of course, the first and greatest of them all, the Justice Society of America.
Continue reading “Make Way for the Super Squad! Oh, and the Justice Society, too!”
There’s something about oddball heroes.
Keep your Supermen and your Thors.
Give me the heroes who have no great gifts – or worse – just weird gifts – and throw themselves into battle with the same determination and fervor as the gods of justice.
Mark Perigard 