Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror. — George Wald
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The Essential Jimmy Olsen Comic Book Stories
Jimmy Olsen is one of the most recognizable supporting characters in comics, and for my money, the most famous pal in history. The red-headed bow-tie wearing Daily Planet photographer is up there with Archie and Dennis the Menace as fictional presences interwoven in the modern American mythology. [Read more…] about The Essential Jimmy Olsen Comic Book Stories
America’s Best Comics (ABC) Reading Order!
America’s Best Comics (ABC) was a comic title that originally ran from 1940-49 and featured such golden age and pulp heroes as The Black Terror, Captain Future, Doc Strange, and the Fighting Yank. Sadly, Standard/Better/Nedor, parent company to ABC, folded in 1956, during the crash in comic book sales brought on by the Cold War. [Read more…] about America’s Best Comics (ABC) Reading Order!
Previously On #75: Black Badge Review, DC Walmart Comics Revisited, and Comics That *Feel* Good
This week on “Previously On,” I review Black Badge from Boom Studios, buy some comics at Walmart, and hold a comic book cover like a tiny treasure. [Read more…] about Previously On #75: Black Badge Review, DC Walmart Comics Revisited, and Comics That *Feel* Good
Marvel Year Ten: 1971 Pt. 2
Marvel comics of 1971. Kree/Skrull War begins! Spider-Man #100! Doctor Doom celebrates Mother’s Day!
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