849 – Rip Hunter in Space
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.
Read More »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.
Read More »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 […]
Read More »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 […]
Read More »In Flash #125 (October 1961), Wally West, aka Kid Flash, goes to visit his aunt and ends up spending time with Barry Allen, aka the Flash. We learn that since time travel has become an important part of being a speedster, that Barry has invented a “cosmic treadmill”. Barry explains that the treadmill helps a […]
Read More »Action Comics #282 (Sept 1961) carries on with Part 5 of the continuing saga of Lesla-Lar v Supergirl, which is kind of just all over the place. Superman continues the “debugging” session of why Supergirl’s powers are missing in the present but have resurfaced in the past. He builds her a time machine to visit […]
Read More »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 […]
Read More »No less than 7 months earlier, DC foreshadowed the Legion of Super-Villains and now we get their first appearance of the LSV in Superman #147 (June 1961). In prison, Luthor offers to repair other inmate’s radios, cobbling together a super-scientific device that can project his voice into the future for this hypothesized evil Legion to […]
Read More »Superman #146 (May 1961) has a great re-telling of Superman’s origin, deftly weaving in all sorts of facts and notes of the Superman mythos up to this point, but I found its second feature “Superman’s Greatest Feats!”. In it, we see Superman convinced by Lori Lemaris to try and save Atlantis from being sunk. Superman […]
Read More »A new form of kryptonite is introduced in Adventure Comics #279 (Oct 1960): Superboy is yet again thrust into the distant future and must prove he wasn’t just a myth, that he actually existed in the past. He finally convinces folks when he uses a piece of white kryptonite from a museum to kill all […]
Read More »In Action Comics #267 (June 1960), the Legion of Super-Heroes makes a re-appearance in a Supergirl adventure. Confusingly Cosmic Lad, Saturn Girl, and Lightning Lad introduce themselves as children of the original Legion members. I guess maybe DC hadn’t figured out the timey-wimey-ness of it all. Interestingly, this is retconned a few years when the […]
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