Marvel in the Silver Age

Growing up in the 1960s, I was surrounded by pop-culture touchstones – The Beatles, The Man from UNCLE and Civil War News gum cards. The biggest influence on my life was Marvel Comics. I wanted to write something about the early days of Marvel, but felt it needed to be put in the right cultural context. So this is my Marvel Comics ...

Saturday, 17 October 2015

From Horrors to Heroes

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AS THE DAYS of Marty Goodman's Atlas Comics drew to a close in the late 1950s, the publisher was casting around for the Next Big Thing....
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Saturday, 26 September 2015

... Look out, Here Comes the Spider-Man

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LAST TIME, I looked at the first few Spider-Man stories and how they set the agenda for the whole of the character's future. But it was...
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Monday, 31 August 2015

... Catches thieves just like flies

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AS I NOTED in last month's blog entry, at the age of 12 I hadn't been much enamoured of John Romita's version of Spider-Man. I ...
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AirPiratePress
Air Pirate Press is a virtual publishing company started by Alan McKenzie and Brett Ewins to publish THE ART OF BRETT EWINS, a retrospective of Brett's 20+ years in the British and American comic industries. This was followed up with McKenzie's revised third edition of THE HARRISON FORD STORY, an unauthorised biography of the top Hollywood star. Air Pirate Press currently has several more projects in preparation.
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