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Life Is Anything But A Dream
There have no doubt been any number of incidental characters in comics stories who were introduced to bring focus to either the lives of the more central characters or a plot slowly building to a...
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"Revenge!" Cries The Master Of Sound!
Following the defeat of Klaw, the Master of Sound, in his attempt to take control of Wakanda's Vibranium mound by using his sound conversion technology to create monstrous creatures made of pure sound,...
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The Voice Of Freedom!
Any Fantastic Four reader who's familiar with the Great Refuge of the Inhumans more than likely knows of the Great Barrier, the impenetrable dome which covered the Refuge shortly after their discovery...
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The New Fantastic Four!
OR: "Enter... Wonder Wizard!"If you were one of those readers who knew of the inventive genius of the Wizard mostly from his attempts to defeat the Human Torch, you were likely taken aback by the...
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Cry Dentist!
A few weeks ago, alert PPC reader M.P. made an interesting observation of how artists will at times exaggerate a villain's facial features, specifically their mouths and teeth (as seen in a related...
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The X-Men Review Heard 'Round The Newsgroup!
Comics readers who were just getting their feet wet with the Internet as early as the late 1980s and early 1990s may well recall its popular discussion forum, Usenet, which actually had its beginning...
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The Perplexing Pivoting of Thunderbolts and Black Panther
In early 2003, when my interest in comics collecting was beginning to wane, there were two series which were also coincidentally drawing to a close, yet titles that I'd enjoyed investing time...
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A Town Besieged--An Aunt Revealed!
Eight issues into writer/artist John Byrne's distinguished run on Fantastic Four, early 1982's off-the-radar "Wendy's Friends" could be described as a middle-of-the-road tale, one of a number of such...
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It's The Return Of The Lethal Legion! (it says here)
October of 1977 saw the Avengers sandwiched between two high points in writer Jim Shooter's handling of the team: the return of Ultron, who schemed (with the unwitting assistance of, of all people,...
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"Day Of The Godslayer!"
The Avengers are in crisis mode! As was the case with Graviton, the Avengers again face a single individual who possesses enough power to swing a virtual scythe through their ranks and easily thwart...
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Return to Delta Vega!
With the PPC having done a write-up over seven years ago of the early voyages of the starship Enterprise and her crew as adapted by Marvel Comics, it's high time we followed up with Marvel's...
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Part Two of Jack Kirby's Supplemental Covers, Circa 1976-1977
Having seen a few of Jack Kirby's supplemental covers for Marvel books, drawn during his own "supplemental" stay at the company during the years 1976-77, let's round out that post by taking the...
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When Come The Slavers of Golden Star!
OR: "Our Next God Up For Bid..." In mid-1973, we found the Mighty Thor comic about to wrap up an eight-month stretch of issues that saw the Thunder God and his fellow Asgardians--the Warriors Three,...
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Terror In A Tiny Town!
While there have been a number of Fantastic Four issues that have celebrated the book's publication in terms of the issue number itself, whether it was the 50th issue, 100th, 150th, etc., celebrations...
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Turmoil on War World!
OR: "This Isn't The Wife You're Looking For" With the 20th anniversary issue of Fantastic Four in our rear-view mirror, let's jump ahead ten years to 1991, and the book's 30th anniversary--the last...
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The War, And The Warriors!
What do we know about the man named Gladiator?Well, we know he's not the only Gladiator in Marvel's stable:But unlike these others, Kallark--the Gladiator who's fiercely loyal to the Shi'ar Empire--is...
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To Save The Future, The Thunder God Must Die!
As we've already seen to a certain extent, the circumstances in which the mighty Thor and the Shi'ar warrior known as Gladiator have met in battle are somewhat tricky to navigate through, given that...
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"The Birth of... The Gibbon!"
The July 1972 issue of Amazing Spider-Man would be the curtain call* for longtime writer Stan Lee on the series, having scripted Spidey's book since 1963 in addition to the character's introduction in...
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