The Fantastic Four finally get a worthy nemesis with Doctor Doom in Fantastic Four #5 (April 1962). The tale starts with the now-familiar inter-team jabs and squabbles, with Johnny Storm reading the The Incredible Hulk comic and suggesting the Hulk reminds him of The Thing. So it’s cross-promotion within a Marvel comic book, but no […]
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Speaking of teamups and crossovers, DC decided to feature a crossover event of sorts between the Silver Age Green Lantern and The Flash in Green Lantern #13 (April 1962). Iris West needs to go interview that famous test pilot Hal Jordan on the west coast, so off Barry Allen goes to vacation with her. At […]
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In Flash #129 (April 1962), Barry Allen gets his second crossover with the Golden Age Flash, Jay Garrick. We start on Earth-2 (just called “Another Earth” in this issue) with Jay Garrick reminiscing with his wife Joan about his adventures with the Justice Society years ago. There’s a couple nice pages where the Golden Age […]
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In March 1962, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby combine forces again and The Incredible Hulk #1 hit the newsstands. A combination of a Marvel Monster and a super-hero in a long-form serial story-telling style. Dr Bruce Banner saves teenager Rick Jones from the G-bomb and is bathed in the full force of the mysterious gamma […]
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Cross-pollination within the DC universe continues, as a villain from the Justice League of America #3 (Mar 1962), Kanjar Ro escapes from his imprisonment and surfaces on Rann, plaguing Adam Strange and his sweetheart Alanna. It turns out that Kanjar Ro has figured out a way to give himself triple super-powers thanks to the triple-sun […]
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Another month, another new Flash rogue: Abra-Kadabra makes his first appearance in Flash #128, March 1962. This time, it’s a stage magician in the 64th century, who laments that no one likes stage magic anymore because future science is so fantastical. He wistfully pines for an audience to applaud for him. He gets the bright […]
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In Batman #147 (March 1962), a criminal gang and a renegade scientist use a ray to de-age Batman to the age of about four. DC’s fascination with their heroes in toddler-form continue, with Bat-Baby being added to the likes of Super-Tot and Wonder-Tot. Fortunately, little Brucey kept his mind and his strength, condensed into a […]
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Last ish, our fledgling Fantastic Four foursome had went splitsville as that hot-head Johnny stormed off because The Thing kept picking on him. Johnny hides out with some roadsters working on hot-rod engines and uses his famous “Flame On!” catchphrase for the first time. We get several pages of the other team members looking throughout […]
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Showcase #37 introduces another set of DC “silver age” heroes: The Metal Men. A series of artificially intelligent robots impractically made of individual precious metals and each given specific powers and personalities specific to their metal. The cast of characters includes their creator Dr Will Magnus and the token female robot “Tina” made of Platinum. […]
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In Flash #127, we meet up again with Grodd the Super-Gorilla, after a year’s absence in the comic books. Previously, Grodd’s consciousness was placed in that of a human, but managed to still get captured by The Flash. Now the human has been paroled and his gorilla mind is starting to re-assert itself. He makes […]
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