Comic Book Review: DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #4: Green Lantern edited by Jack C. Harris This volume contains six stories of the Silver Age Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, mostly about first appearances of certain concepts. “The Planet of Doomed Men” story by John Broome, art by Gil Kane & Murphy Anderson, was in Green… Continue reading Comic Book Review: DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #4: Green Lantern
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Book Review: Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2026
Book Review: Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2026 edited by Robert Greenberger Disclaimer: I contributed to the Kickstarter for this book, and there’s an advertisement for this blog on page 44. It’s time for another annual installment of this pulp-style anthology! Some returning authors, some new ones, and some familiar characters to follow. This year, the genres… Continue reading Book Review: Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2026
Comic Book Review: Star Trek: Red Shirts
Comic Book Review: Star Trek: Red Shirts written by Christopher Cantwell, art by Megan Levens One of the running jokes among Star Trek fans, especially when talking about the original series, is the “redshirts”, characters whose only purpose in the story is to die to establish that the situation was dangerous and how the danger… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Star Trek: Red Shirts
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #503
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #503 edited by Nicola Cuti All good things must come to an end, they say, and this digest issue was the last one of the original Adventure Comics run. (It would be picked up again as a title 2009-11 before being cancelled for the New 52 reboot.) At the end… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #503
Book Review: Mayday Orbit | No Man’s World
Book Review: Mayday Orbit | No Man’s World by Poul Anderson and Kenneth Bulmer, respectively. It’s time for another science fiction Ace Double, two books in one! It is the 31st Century, and the Terran Empire has passed its peak. Oh, to be sure it’s still very large and powerful and the vast majority of… Continue reading Book Review: Mayday Orbit | No Man’s World
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #502
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #502 edited by Nicola Cuti We are getting towards the end of the digest version of Adventure Comics, and presumably the people putting these together were already aware of this, but there’s no hint about that in this issue. “Plastic Man” (no subtitle) written by Martin Pasko, art by Joe… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #502
Book Review: Great Science-Fiction
Book Review: Great Science-Fiction edited by Tony Licata This anthology was, Wikipedia says, originally intended to have the title “Bizarre”, but that might have drawn the wrong kind of attention, so the publisher gave it this much more generic title. “The Wind” by Ray Bradbury starts us off with a spooky tale of a man… Continue reading Book Review: Great Science-Fiction
Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #7: Superboy
Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #7: Superboy edited by Julius Schwartz With the success of Superman as a character and a cash cow, it was pretty much inevitable that the comic book company would find ways to expand the franchise. Thus in 1944, Jerry Siegel was convinced to create tales of Superboy, Superman… Continue reading Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #7: Superboy
Magazine Review: Astounding Science Fiction February 1956
Magazine Review: Astounding Science Fiction February 1956 edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. We begin this issue of the classic science fiction magazine with an editorial on “The Science of Psionics.” While the study of psychic phenomena is large discredited in the 21st Century, back in the 1950s it was still considered a serious if… Continue reading Magazine Review: Astounding Science Fiction February 1956
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #501
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #501 edited by Nicola Cuti After the all-Legion issue #500, the digest-sized Adventure Comics returned to featuring multiple characters. Let’s see what it has to offer! “Codename: Pinkeye!” story by Martin Pasko, art by Joe Staton & Bob Smith, picks up right after the killing of foreign agent Dmitri Dervish.… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #501