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 ...

Tuesday, 31 October 2017

Silver Age DCs: Robin the Boy Bystander

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I was going to do an overview of Marvel's Thor, starting from the earliest days of the Journey into Mystery issues, for October's b...
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Sunday, 24 September 2017

Marvel Comics: The Rise of the Cover Blurb

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BACK IN THE 1960s , comic publishers didn't have marketing budgets. There was nowhere for them to advertise their comics, except for in ...
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Wednesday, 23 August 2017

A big change for Cap's Kooky Quartet

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BACK IN 1965, as I was beginning my life-long association with Marvel Comics, my favourite title was The Avengers . Not the "classic...
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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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