Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

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

Our half-century-old topic of discussion today picks up its ongoing storyline in the immediate aftermath of the previous issue,  So, if you’re not already familiar with what happened in All-Star Comics #62, you might want to go catch up via o...

With this post, we’ve arrived at the penultimate installment of Marvel Comics’ five-part crossover between Conan the Barbarian and Red Sonja, She-Devil with a Sword, as originally published in the summer of 1976 — although, if you’ve been following along the last couple of months, you might be feeling that, three chapters in, the story seems to have barely gotten started.  Af...

In last Saturday’s post, we discussed Marvel Comics’ Thor Annual #5 — which, in the summer of 1976, was the first annual starring the God of Thunder to have appeared since 1971.  Today, we’ll be looking at another ’76 Marvel annual… although this one h...

Three months ago, in our post about Avengers #150, we discussed at length the circumstances surrounding writer Steve Englehart’s decision in the spring of 1976 to leave Marvel Comics.  While the most immediate effect of his decision was that, com...