Continuing with our tour through the Marvel/DC crossover specials released to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their first collaboration, the second trade paperback released is "The Dead of Knight and Other Stories." Don't ask me which company released which one, as the creators in these books have worked at both companies at one time or …
I am too young to remember when the first Superman/Spider-Man crossover was published, but somehow we have blinked and the fiftieth anniversary of that comic is upon us! To celebrate, Marvel and DC have once again joined forces and released an assortment of stories pairing up heroes and villains from both universes. Front and center …
Hi again everyone! I posted a review of J. Michael Straczynski's beautiful book, Becoming Superman, on my "Christ, Coffee, and Comics" site back in 2020, and realized just recently I never posted it here. JMS is a talented writer and huge Superman fan who has written some great stories of the Man of Steel during …
Continue reading “Becoming Superman” by J. Michael Straczynski- A Review
In all the years I've had this site, I really haven't written nearly enough about the Fleischer Superman cartoons. Each short that the studio produced between 1941-1942 is nothing less than a masterpiece in animation that has few parallels, even today. The legendary story of how Fleischer's people secured the license to the Man of …
Continue reading Max Fleischer Superman Cartoon Production Art
You guys know how much I like books about comics! Way back in 2015 I had the pleasure of interviewing the fantastic Larry Tye, former journalist for the Boston Globe who also made a name for himself writing books about Americana. His credits include the biography "Satchel: The Life and Times of An American Legend" …
