Comic Effect

  Green Lantern is my favorite superhero, and he got around the DC Universe more during 1972-76 (particularly in 1974) than I’ve been giving him credit for in past editions of this column. GL...

  In 1975, beginning in The Flash #233 (May, 1975) and 234 (Jun., 1975), Denny O’Neil righted plot matters for Green Lantern after a few miscues. In that two-part story, two aliens from the planet...

  In what should have stayed a self-contained, eight-page backup story illustrated by Neal Adams in The Flash #226, Green Lantern found he was incapable of using his power ring effectively. It was...

Green Lantern/Green Arrow #89 (Apr.-May, 1972) was published in February, 1972--shortly before I started collecting comic books. It was the last issue in the highly acclaimed run that began in GL/GA #76 (Apr.,...

From the beginning of Jack Kirby’s Fourth World series it was the apprehension of the Anti-life Equation that drove Darkseid. The equation lay submerged in the minds of a handful of human beings from Earth,...

From the beginning of Jack Kirby's Fourth World series it was the...

haven’t been contributing to Comics Bulletin lately--the more recent half. Seven days before Christmas I thought I had a bug bite on my chest so I popped it and treated it. Six days before Christmas I...

After reading Jason Sacks’s “Top Ten 1970s Marvels” and Andrew Wahl’s “Top Ten Most Underrated Bronze Age Comics,” two excellent articles recently published here at Comics Bulletin, coming up...

A significant comic strip anniversary is less than two weeks away! Linus began his annual anticipation of the Great Pumpkin’s rising from a sincere pumpkin patch in the “Peanuts” strip that appeared...

I’m not exactly sure which superheroes Bob Brown is most noted for illustrating during his decades-long career in comics. Brown’s work on DC’s Challengers of the Unknown and Superboy as well as on...