Weird/interesting things about superhero comics
Haha! Seriously, Hi, folks. What you’re about to read, or perhaps are already reading and flipped back to see what all this crazy writing is about, is the highlights of a long love affair between myself and comics. Yes, comics. Specifically, superhero comics. Oh, I’ve read other types over the years, and I enjoy them, …
The strange psychological origins of Wonder Woman
Serving dishes? Bottle caps? Little Bo-Peep? What hat will Lois wear next?
As we continue to follow Lois’ exploits in millinery, one question comes to mind, or at least to my mind. Does she really get paid well enough to afford all of these hats? I can’t recall the story at present, but it involves designer clothing rip-offs. In it, Lois lays out $150 (close to a …
Ah, the forties. The War Years (or the New War Years, I suppose, as opposed to the Great War Years, no one as yet anticipating the subsequent wars the United States would be involved in —or involve herself in—one after another). In such changing times, when the nation’s women went to work with a will, …
Read More “Superman, the 1930’s-40’s: Lois Lane’s Hats Part 1”
The Man of Steel’s costume, despite what you might think, has come a long way since Joe Shuster first introduced him to us in Action Comics #1. It actually evolved in a very short time, but evolve it did.
When Bob Kane and Bill Finger presented the Batman to the world (okay, pretty much just the U.S., but eventually…) in the lead story in issue 27 of Detective Comics, Finger had already convinced Kane to give up his original idea for a costumed adventurer to help capitalize on the craze started by Siegal and …
I have already mentioned Joe Kubert as a writer-artist for DC’s version of Tarzan. Frank Robbins usually wrote the Batman in Detectice Comics (as well as Batman), but in some issues he handled the art duties as well. Robbins gave the Caped Crusader a rather unique, almost harsh look, especially when you remember that Neal Adams and Dick Giordano (especially Adams) had already established a …
Back when DC had the rights to Tarzan, the incredible Joe Kubert delivered some fantastic art to the series, in which he was usually penciller, inker, and letterer, the colors being done by Tatjana Wood and the plots, at least in the story arcs below, being adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs‘ original novels of the …