February 2021
Welcome to The Bronze Age Boom Tube, your travel-tunnel to my Whispers to the Surface blog! My February 2021 blogs can be accessed by clicking the titles below--
"Never again will super-heroes interfere with our orderly world!" bellows the fist-clenching, narrow-eyed figure on the cover of GREEN LANTERN #83, "DESTROY THEM!" Our heroes recoil in horror at whatever it is that is casting a huge shadow over them-- "We can't fight that!" wails Green Lantern, "We're finished!" (Click below to read full post--)
What a powerful cover image this is-- Namor's grim visage staring directly out at us, his features heavily shadowed, especially on the side of the divided frame which shows the prostate figure of Dorma surrounded by broken glass and puddles of water. And on the other side is Namor's enemy, Attuma, brutally hacking at a huddled Atlantean with a vicious looking barbed blade... (Click below to read full post--)
"HELP! SAVE ME!" screams Lois Lane, her entire body enveloped by flames. Superman looks on in horror powerlessly as a pair of storybook devils taunt him to "enter the gates of Hell!" Neal Adams' cover to SUPERMAN #236 promises a terrifying tale of the afterlife which would have sent a shudder down the spine of impressionable Sunday School-attending kids for whom the fires of Hell might have seemed as substantial as the world we know, the heavy, gargoyled doors seen here merely adding an extra distressing element... (CLICK BELOW TO READ FULL ARTICLE)
'Who is swifter... smarter... stronger... than Superman?' we are asked, as we see a demonic looking figure trouncing the Man of Steel in all three departments. 'Read the shocking, surprising answer in THE DEVIL'S HARP' we are instructed, and you'd be forgiven for thinking that our hero will be coming up against Old Nick himself this issue... (Click below to read full post--)
As the idea of Women's Liberation became established as an important, controversial element of the American zeitgeist in the early 1970s, DC Comics sets out its own concept of feminism-- An audience of ridiculously attired females watching two attractive young women fighting each other in long boots and short skirts. (Click below to read full post--)
"Supergirl! ... She's been turned into a MONSTROSITY!" (click below to read full article)
Anyone expecting a horror story about gigantic creatures crashing into tower blocks will be disappointed by a narrative which introduces us to a political agitator who bizarrely has an eagle's foot grafted on to replace a missing hand... (Click on cover to read full article)
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That story didn't bother me, per se. Sekowskys approach did
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