Steve Gerber’s Son of Satan Pt. 10: “Will I Ever Make Sense of It?”
Welcome to part 10, the final part of my look at Steve Gerber’s run on “Son of Satan” in Marvel Spotlight. In part 9 of my series I looked...
Steve Gerber’s Son of Satan Pt. 9: Journey Into Himself!
Welcome back to part nine of my look at Steve Gerber’s “Son of Satan” in his 1974-75 run in Marvel Spotlight. This is the penultimate...
Steve Gerber’s Son of Satan Pt. 8: The Nihilists Are Back and They’re Pissed
Welcome to part eight of my look at Steve Gerber’s “Son of Satan”, published in Marvel Spotlight circa 1975. When last we visited Daimon...
Steve Gerber’s Son of Satan Pt. 7: The Tarot Tells All
Welcome to part seven of my look at Steve Gerber’s 1970s run on “Son of Satan” in Marvel Spotlight. In the previous two weeks of this column...
Steve Gerber’s Son of Satan Pt. 6: One Act of Evil
Welcome to part six of my look at Steve Gerber’s wonderful run on “Son of Satan” in Marvel Spotlight. Last week I talked about how the art...
Steve Gerber’s Son of Satan Pt. 5: True Horrors at Home
Thanks for reading the fifth in my series of looks at Steve Gerber’s 1970s run on “Son of Satan” in Marvel Spotlight #18 from 1974. After...
Steve Gerber’s Son of Satan Pt. 4: A Quick Visit to Atlantis
Welcome to the latest chapter of my look at Steve Gerber’s Son of Satan, as we now reach the biggest non-sequitur of his run, in Marvel Spotlight...
Steve Gerber’s Son of Satan Pt. 3: From Barefoot Innocents to Satanic Worshippers
Welcome back to the third part of my look at Steve Gerber’s wonderfully odd run on “Son of Satan.” Sorry for missing the last three weeks (and...
Steve Gerber’s Son of Satan Pt. 2: The Battle for the Soul
At its best, Steve Gerber’s run on “Son of Satan” is one of the most memorable series he produced at Marvel during his ridiculously fertile...
Steve Gerber’s Son of Satan Pt. 1: Ice Demons and Terrible Slaps
Last time in this column I discussed the oddly desultory nature of Steve Gerber’s work on “Morbius the Living Vampire” in Fear. That comic...
Classic Comics Cavalcade: Steve Gerber’s Morbius Part 4: Jet Packs and Other Random Brilliance
Welcome to the fifth and final part of my exploration of Steve Gerber’s oddball 1974 writing stint on “Morbius the Living Vampire” in the pages...
Podcast: Arie Kaplan reads Howard the Duck—RCBC
Writer and humorist Arie Kaplan (Bongo, MAD Magazine, LEGO Star Wars Face Off, 5-Minute Avengers Stories) comes to the podcast to discuss the...
Blood-Sucking in the ’70s: Morbius by Steve Gerber Pt. 4: I Have No Earthly Idea
Welcome to the latest chapter of my exploration of perhaps Steve Gerber’s most obscure and most oddly great comic series, “Morbius the Living...
Blood-Sucking in the ’70s: Morbius by Steve Gerber Pt. 3: Bloodless Barbarians and Talking Eyes
Continuing my series on Steve Gerber’s wildly unpredictable run writing “Morbius the Living Vampire”, it’s time now for Gerber’s third...
Blood-Sucking in the ’70s: Morbius by Steve Gerber Pt. 2: Super Space Cats
What would you do if your world was facing overpopulation? What if the main civilization on that world was so peaceful that there were no wars, no...