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 ...

Sunday, 12 February 2017

More Strange Torch Tales

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IN THE EARLY DAYS of Marvel, Stan Lee hadn't been quite so protective of the characters as he would later become. I believe, even in 19...
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Sunday, 15 January 2017

Strange Tales: The Human Torch solo stories

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IT'S FAIRLY WELL RECORDED  that at the beginning of the 1960s, when Marvel publisher Martin Goodman instructed editor and head writer St...
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Monday, 19 December 2016

The Best Marvel Annual: Amazing Spider-Man 1

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THE IDEA OF A COMICS ANNUAL isn't an especially new one, not even at the beginning of the 1960s when DC published Superman Annual 1 (A...
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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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