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Out of the Vault – Captain America and the Falcon #191
Last week, we featured Steve Englehart’s attempt to make Cap relevant and interesting to a 1970’s audience more interested in the Watergate scandal than WWII patriotic propaganda. As a parting gift before he left the series, Englehart decided to retcon … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Captain America and the Falcon #176, 178
Last week,we looked at Captain America #117, in which we saw the introduction of a new superhero, The Falcon. Lest you think this was merely a minor blip in the history of Cap, let’s jump forward five years, to 1974. … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Captain America #117
The next few weeks from the Vault are going to be a little different. I have a very few Captain America comics from the 60’s and 70’s, and for the next month or so, I’ll be visiting them one by … Continue reading
Super Movie Monday – Swamp Thing
Okay, so in the 70’s, writer Len Wein and artist Berni Wrightson created a tight little horror story for House of Secrets #92, featuring a plant-man much like previous comics characters, The Heap and Marvel’s Man-Thing. The next year, Wein and … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Captain America’s First Appearance,
In early 1941, before the United States had even officially entered the war, the iconic American soldier appeared on the cover of his debut issue socking Hitler in the jaw. This was, of course, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby’s Captain … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – The Original Green Lantern
So I thought this would be a good tie-in with the movie, only the movie has mostly come and gone already. And really, this isn’t in any way the same Green Lantern, so I guess it doesn’t matter. Because the … Continue reading
Powerful Pages – Gladiator by Philip Wylie
Philip Wylie is perhaps best known for his novel When Worlds Collide, which was made into a big budget special-effects extravaganza by producer George Pal. But every year, it becomes more apparent that his most influential novel by far was … Continue reading
Super Movie Monday – My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Okay, this week’s Super Movie Monday will be pretty long, because if ever a movie did not deserve to be discussed for two weeks, it’s this one. My Super Ex-Girlfriend was released in 2006 to take advantage of all the … Continue reading
Super Movie Monday – Hancock, Part 2
Last week, we discussed the first half of Hancock, the 2008 superhero spoof starring Will Smith, Jason Bateman and Charlize Theron. And as the first half was ending, Smith was just finishing his transition from thoroughly unpleasant, drunken super-asshole to … Continue reading
Super Movie Monday – Hancock, Part 1
So for the next little while, I’m going to cover superheroes who are original to the screen and did not appear in comics first. This week and next, I’ll cover two stories featuring Will Smith as a superhero named Hancock. … Continue reading
