bob haney

12 min read 2022-01-31 12:00:00

Showcase Corner - Martian Manhunter!

Martian Manhunter is the first Silver Age superhero. His earliest adventures as a Martian trapped on Earth are contained in Showcase Presents Martian

11 min read 2021-12-27 12:00:00

In the second volume of Teen Titans - The Silver Age the team really come into their own. They had begun a trio of boy sidekicks to try and milk a

9 min read 2021-12-20 12:00:00

If any single comic book spoke to the era of the 1960's, at least as imagined by the mature creators of comics at the time it was the Teen Titans.

1 min read 2021-11-06 17:30:50

Bob Haney lives up to the hype… As I noted the other day, my latest reading project is all the Brave and the Bold Batman team-ups, interspersed

1 min read 2021-11-01 17:30:23

Oh, if only… I’ve started a new reading project: all the Batman team-ups in the classic Brave and the Bold series, interspersed with the

1 min read 2021-09-28 19:41:01

Art by Joe Kubert Weird Warriors always have my vote. If you are going to tell a war story, why not a weird one? I suppose this is because I grew up

1 min read 2021-09-15 12:05:19

A half century ago, when your humble blogger picked the object of today’s post up out of the spinner rack and eyeballed the cover for the first

28 min read 2021-03-24 12:05:45

As discussed on this blog back in January, Teen Titans #32 ended with two of our young heroes, Kid Flash and Mal, trapped in a bizarre alternate

16 min read 2021-02-17 20:45:56

Art by Dick Loederer DC’s cavemen capers began at the beginning of the company with “Caveman Capers” in 1935’s New Fun Comics. Every so often

7 min read 2021-02-16 02:42:16

In the early 1940s, as a myriad of would-be publishers heard about the overwhelming success of Superman nd rushed into the marketplace offering their

18 min read 2021-01-23 13:05:10

Back in December, I wrote about the departure of Dick Giordano from his position as an editor at DC Comics. Giordano’s last day on staff at the

5 min read 2020-12-29 01:28:38

This issue of BRAVE AND THE BOLD was another comic that I wound up with in trade with my classroom buddy, Donald Sims. Even by 1978, those first ten

5 min read 2020-11-23 04:07:05

While as we’ve seen, Marvel was relatively quick to begin to self-mythologize its creative staff and editorial Bullpen, rival publisher DC (then

6 min read 2020-11-20 13:00:00

Above was the first glimpse of Steve Ditko's new creation for his new employer DC Comics. The Creeper offered a strange silhouette for an eager fan.

6 min read 2020-11-15 06:18:24

The first time I came across it, I don’t think that I was able to go in and look around. But it was enough to know that it was there, and