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Cold Blood, Libel, and Forlorn Love: Adventure Comics #431 – #440 (1974-5) – The Spectre (revisited)

April 28, 2023 by DG Stewart

Writer: Michael Fleisher Artist: Jim Aparo DC Comics, 1974-1975 Recently, your reviewer has been revisiting stories from his childhood, including Adventure Comics. Adventure Comics was a long-standing depository for a wide variety of minor DC Comics’ characters: Superboy, Supergirl, Starman, Plastic Man, Black Orchid, Aquaman, Deadman, and Dial H for Hero. Its purpose was far … Read more

POISON IVY (review)—”Seduced by life and death”

February 4, 2023 by Terry Hammond

Writer: G. Willow Wilson Artists: Marcio Takara, Arif Prianto DC Comics, June 2022 AN ALIEN GARDENER arriving to cultivate the planet would have to worry first about the human infestation. Even humans, supposedly rational, in a mass look like a flourishing plant species, a fungal bloom overpowering everything around it. How living things love to … Read more

Happy 40th anniversary, Batman and the Outsiders

February 3, 2023 by DG Stewart

Writer: Mike W. Barr Art: Jim Aparo DC Comics, July 1983 to April 1986 Wherever the Bat signal appears, dollar signs follow. American superhero character Batman, owned by DC Comics, is usually considered to be a fundamental element of the character grouping called Justice League of America. Having Batman on the cover of a comic … Read more

Rogues (review) —”Who can possibly lead these beasts?”

November 10, 2022 by Terry Hammond

Writer: Joshua Williamson Artists: Leomacs, Matheus Lopes, Jason Wordie DC Comics Black Label, March – October 2022 BALD-HEADED BAD GUYS can have a sensitive charm alongside that slithery sneer that gives them away. You may know some of the characters gathered in ROGUES, now up to Issue 3, written by Joshua Williamson, infesting a universe … Read more