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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In Fantastic Four #2 (Sept 1961), Marvel starts to gradually expand its mythos by introducing a shape-shifting alien race about to conquer Earth: The Skrulls! Four Skrulls establish a beach-head of tarnishing the FF’s reputation by masquerading as the superheroes and stealing jewelry or destroying property. The plan is to discredit the superheroes and then […]
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In Action Comics #281 (Aug 1961), the fourth installment in the long-running, multi-month story arc continues as Lesla-Lar masquerades as a recently-re-powered Supergirl. She goes with Superman to the Fortress of Solitude, while the de-powered Supergirl continues to live out her best life with amnesia in the bottled city of Kandor. While there, Krypto sniffs […]
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Action Comics #279 (June 1961) continues the multi-issue Supergirl story arc started last month, where we learn that Supergirl lost her powers due to an evil, jealous, genius inventor named Lesla-Lar who lives inside the bottled city of Kandor and happens to look exactly like Supergirl. Meanwhile, a de-powered Linda Lee tries to make the […]
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Action Comics #278 (May 1961) begins a multi-issue spanning Supergirl arc, starting with the revelation that Superman has decided to reveal the existence of Supergirl to the world. It’s been more than two years since the introduction of the Supergirl character and perhaps the writing team has run out of ways to make interesting stories […]
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After all that deeper thinking about character motivation, it’s time for something light-hearted and fun: a new Legionnaire is introduced in Adventure Comics #282 (Jan 1961): Star Boy! Lana wants to make Superboy jealous, so she eavesdrops as a new teen superhero arrives from the future to meet Superboy. She learns the teen’s identity is […]
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We have had many stories before about Lois becoming “Super Woman“, usually done to explore some aspect of the love triangle between Superman-Lois-Clark, and Action Comics #274 (Jan 1961) is certainly no exception. This time it’s exploring whether Lois loves Superman for who he is, or because of his amazing abilities and his fame. Lois […]
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In the two-part tale “The Secret of Volcano Mountain” of Wonder Woman #120 (Dec 1960), a meteor from Mercury delivers an “ice genie” to plague Wonder Girl. Years after defeating it, a “fire genie” is sent from Mercury to threaten Wonder Woman’s world. Steve Trevor gets involved and is captured by the beast while Wonder […]
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Multi-Man, the Challengers best-known nemesis, returns in Challengers of the Unknown #15 (June 1960). In this issue he dies in an explosion in his jail cell and is re-born with super-strength and super-invulnerability. The Challengers manage to douse him again with the antidote that takes away his power one last time. Then a native jabs […]
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In Challengers of the Unknown #14 (April 1960), our heroes get a new long-standing nemesis: Multi-Man. Mult-Man starts out as Duncan Pramble, an archaeologist’s assistant who steals away and drinks “liquid light” while on an expedition with the Challs. Now every time he dies, he is resurrected with a new random power – how convenient. […]
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