Spider-Man wasn’t the only Marvel hero getting started this month. In fact June 1962 was a big month for Marvel on the newsstand with The Mighty Thor debuting in Journey into Mystery #83. I can’t call this one a great origin story, it’s on the lame side (heh heh). Frail, handicapped Doctor Donald Blake is […]
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My favorite Marvel character finally makes his debut in Amazing Fantasy #15 (June 1962): Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-Man! Like Superman and Batman, we pretty much all know the origin story, but it’s still so much fun to show some of that old Steve Ditko art. After getting bit by a radioactive spider, high school […]
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Adventure Comics #299 (June 1962) has the imaginary tale “The Unwanted Superbaby!”, in which authorities discover baby Kal-El has super-powers before the Kents can adopt him. The result is that Kal-El grows up resentful of Earth people, who only take advantage of him and mis-trust him. Eventually he leaves Earth, despite thinking wistfully back towards […]
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In Incredible Hulk #2 (May 1962), we get a quick re-telling of the Hulk’s origin… saves Rick Jones, dose of gamma radiation, upon nightfall turns in Mr. Hyde… with the never-explained change from grey-skinned to green-skinned. Bruce and Rick proceed to build an underground bunker for the Hulk to spend his quiet evenings, with 10-ft […]
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The blog post title contains the spoiler, but Ultra-Boy is a pretty well-known character in Legion lore these days that it’s hardly that much of a spoiler. A mysterious super-powered teen shows up in Smallville to uncover Superboy’s secret identity, accompanied by a stern, elderly man dressed in similar clothes. We get some cat-and-mouse where […]
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In another outing of the Metal Men, chemical scientist Ramsey Norton dumps his failed chemical experiments into a plastic, human-shaped vessel, which he names Chemo. Somehow Chemo gains some form of sentience, animates the plastic vessel, grows to a gigantic size, and starts on a rampage, to topple buildings and proving impervious to police bullets. […]
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With no real pseudo-scientific explanation given, after encountering a stranded alien with super-powers in the past, Rip Hunter decides to chart a course into space with the Time Sphere.
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Amazing Adult Fantasy #14 (April 1962) includes the short story “The Man In The Sky!”. In it, Tad Carter is born to an atomic scientist and later develops mutant powers of telepathy and telekinesis. As a young socially awkward college student, he approaches apparent acquaintances and uses his powers on them, trying to convince them […]
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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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