Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #26: The Brave and the Bold edited by Mike W. Barr Before The Brave and the Bold became an all-Batman team-up book, it was an adventure comic book series that featured multiple action-oriented characters. This digest reprints five of those features, plus a Batman team-up because that was… Continue reading Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #26: The Brave and the Bold
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Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #30: Detective Comics
Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #30: Detective Comics edited by Len Wein Detective Comics is one of DC’s longest-running comic book series, and indeed, they’re named after it. While it’s best known as the birthplace of Batman, over the years it’s hosted several other features involving some form of detection or mystery solving.… Continue reading Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #30: Detective Comics
Comic Book Review: Best of DC Blue Ribbon Digest #19: Superman
Comic Book Review: Best of DC Blue Ribbon Digest #19: Superman edited by Julius Schwartz This is an imaginary story–aren’t they all?” –Allan Moore, “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?” Back in the Silver Age of DC Comics, especially in the Superman titles, status quo was very much a thing. The Superman/Clark Kent/Lois Lane… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Best of DC Blue Ribbon Digest #19: Superman
Comic Book Review: Best of DC #8: Year’s Best Comics Stories
Comic Book Review: Best of DC #8: Year’s Best Comics Stories edited by Julius Schwartz If you were going to have a digest comic called “Best of DC” it only made sense to present a collection of what the creators considered best stories for a given year, in this case, 1979. As the text feature… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Best of DC #8: Year’s Best Comics Stories
Comic Book Review: Gotham Central: Unresolved Targets
Comic Book Review: Gotham Central: Unresolved Targets edited by Matt Idelson Being a cop in Gotham City is rough. In addition to the long hours, hostile population and dangerous streets that come with the police officer’s job in any large city, Gotham City has one of the highest corruption rates of a police department in… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Gotham Central: Unresolved Targets
Comic Book Review: DC Special No. 3: Justice Society
Comic Book Review: DC Special No. 3: Justice Society edited by Paul Levitz As discussed in previous reviews, the Justice Society of America was DC Comics’ first superhero team, designed to showcase their characters that didn’t have their own individual titles. Thus Superman and Batman weren’t members, but were “honorary”, and Green Lantern and the… Continue reading Comic Book Review: DC Special No. 3: Justice Society
Comic Book Review: DC Special No. 23: Green Arrow
Comic Book Review: DC Special No. 23: Green Arrow edited by Len Wein Green Arrow was created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp for More Fun Comics #73 in 1941. Oliver “Ollie” Queen was originally an old-money anthropologist with a special interest in Native American cultures, who’d learned archery from the tribes he was studying.… Continue reading Comic Book Review: DC Special No. 23: Green Arrow
Comic Book Review: Best of DC #20: World’s Finest
Comic Book Review: Best of DC #20: World’s Finest Art by Dick Dillin & Joe Giella For a few decades, World’s Finest Comics was by default the Superman/Batman team-up book, featuring DC Comics’ two top characters working together to handle various cases and crises. This 1982 reprint digest presents three of these stories from 1971-1972,… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Best of DC #20: World’s Finest
Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #22: Christmas with the Super Heroes
Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #22: Christmas with the Super Heroes by various creators ‘Tis the holiday season, so let’s kick back and enjoy a collection of DC Comics heroes enjoying Christmas, or at least the secular version of same. “The TT’s Swingin’ Christmas Carol!” written by Bob Haney and art by Nick… Continue reading Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #22: Christmas with the Super Heroes
Open Thread: ConVergence 2021 Report
Open Thread: ConVergence 2021 Report Those of you who’ve met me are aware that my introversion is almost at hermit levels, and this last year only amplified that. But I do enjoy a small amount of social interaction, and the lack of conventions wore on me. So when it was announced that the 2021 version… Continue reading Open Thread: ConVergence 2021 Report