Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

It’s been a while since we last discussed artist/writer/editor Jack Kirby’s Eternals in this space — so, as...

Back in September, 1976, the artist of the comic book story we’ll be discussing today — Howard Chaykin, that is — wouldn’t have ranked among the most prolific of the generation of talented young illustrators who’d entered the American comic book industry in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  Unlike other such “Young Turks” of the era as Barry Windsor-Smith, Bernie Wrightson, Fr...

With this post, we come to the third and final chapter of 1976’s Justice League of America/Justice Society of America crossover, featuring the formal induction of “Earth-S” — home to the characters formerly published by Fawcett Comics — into the greater DC Comics multiverse.  Following the lead of this saga’s own writers, we’re not going to be offering recaps of the previous ...

Regular readers of this blog will recall how, three months ago, we celebrated “Marvel Milestone Month” in honor of four long-running Marvel series all having hit significant numerical markers in May, 1976.  Today, we’ll be looking at yet another comic that signified a notable Marvel milestone of that year, coming out as it did on the fifteenth anniversary of the launch of the...

With this post, we’ve reached the final chapter of Marvel Comics’ five-part crossover between Conan the Barbarian and Marvel Feature (starring Red Sonja) — and as this installment’s cover by Gil Kane, Pablo Marcos, and John Romita makes clear, Conan and Sonja — not to mention Bêlit, Queen of the Black Coast — are going to be joined for the occasion by the