It speaks to the essential appeal of Green Lantern as a character that I continued to follow his series for long stretches of tie even when I wasn't really enjoying it all that much. And this period that we're in right now is something of a nadir. Hal was still paired up with Green Arrow … Continue reading BHOC: GREEN LANTERN #118
We talked about this last time, I believe, but GREEN LANTERN (co-staring GREEN ARROW) was in something of a malaise at this time. It was still a book I bought faithfully, but I was finding myself less and less enamored of its content. Quite often, it felt like the logo was backwards, and that it … Continue reading BHOC: GREEN LANTERN #117
My memory of things is that GREEN LANTERN entered into a bit of a doldrums as a series at about this time, one that held on at least until Green Arrow was given his eviction notice from the series and really up until Marv Wolfman began to write it a couple of years later. It … Continue reading BHOC: GREEN LANTERN #116
As comic books entered teh 1940s, it became apparent to publishers that the thing that was really driving sales to kids, at least right at that moment, was super heroes. Larger-than-life costumed do-gooders dressed in outlandish costumes. Superman had shown the way, and every pulp publisher with two nickels to rub together began following suit. … Continue reading The Second Green Lantern Story
As opposed to the Flash and the other members of the Justice Society of America whose solo series all were discontinued in the pages of the anthology series they were a part of, Green Lantern actually made his final Golden Age solo appearance in his own title, which outlasted ALL-AMERICAN COMICS' transformation into ALL-AMERICAN WESTERN … Continue reading The Last Green Lantern Story
I was still regularly following GREEN LANTERN (co-starring GREEN ARROW) but to be honest I was enjoying it less and less. I'd first encountered the character as a back-up strip in THE FLASH where his adventures were galactic in nature. But in this book, it was clear that the writers and editors weren't entirely comfortable … Continue reading BHOC: GREEN LANTERN #115
Having dedicated themselves to making strides within the new Direct Sales marketplace, an arena in which Marvel had up to this point been overwhelmingly outselling pretty much everybody, DC produced a number of issues of DC SAMPLER, an overview and preview of their line intended to be given out at comic book specialty stores across … Continue reading DC SAMPLER #3
Over the course of comic book history, the fortunes of super heroes as a genre waxed and waned as tastes changed and the marketplace shifted. This led to moments where a series that was once popular had fallen upon hard times or was seen as being out of step with the era, and needed to … Continue reading 5BC: Five Times Two Heroes Were Better Than One
Super heroes as a genre were on their way out as the 1960s turned into the 1970s and the super hero fad that had driven success throughout the silver age fell away. But this meant that publishers were more encouraged to experiment than they had been previously in an attempt to stave off cancellation--and every … Continue reading 5BC: The Five Best Comic Books of 1970
I continued to purchase GREEN LANTERN (co-starring GREEN ARROW) every month, even though the quality of the series varied wildly. Writer Denny O'Neil had been in place since the early 1970s, when the title's dip into confronting real-world issues got it a lot of public attention and notoriety. But I get the sense that Denny … Continue reading BHOC: GREEN LANTERN #114
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