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Tag Archives: Dick Dillin
COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (5 August 2024)
A reminder that comic book covers can be awesome… and also quite meta:
Posted in WEBS OF FICTION
Tagged 2000 AD, Alan Davis, Alex Ross, Anthony Tollin, Astro City, Bill Payne, Brendan McCarthy, Brett Ewins, Cary Burkett, covers, Crossover, Dee Cunniffe, Dick Dillin, Dick Giordano, Don Simpson, Emily Watson, Excalibur, FemForce, Geoff Shaw, Howard Bender, Ira Schnapp, Jim Sanders III, John J. Hill, Justice League of America, Laura Allred, Megaton Man, Mike Allred, Mike Harris, Paul Neary, Pete Poplaski, She-Hulk, Sheldon Moldoff, Strange Adventures, Todd Klein, X-Force
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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (31 October 2022)
At Gotham Calling, Halloween is the time when I usually highlight my favorite recent horror movies. In past years, I chose stuff from the margins that surprised and affected me – Censor and Antebellum – but this time my pick … Continue reading
COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (30 November 2020)
Another reminder that comics can be awesome, this week celebrating the freaky creatures from My Greatest Adventure:
Posted in GLIMPSES INTO THE PAST
Tagged Bob Brown, covers, Dick Dillin, Ira Schnapp, Lee Elias, My Greatest Adventure, Sheldon Moldoff
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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (27 July 2020)
I wasn’t a fan of last year’s reboot of The Twilight Zone, but somebody convinced me to check out some of the second season’s episodes. Although they’re a mixed bag and still highly derivative, there is definitely some improvement. The … Continue reading
Posted in FANTASTIC ADVENTURES
Tagged covers, Dick Dillin, Ira Schnapp, Jack Adler, My Greatest Adventure, Nick Cardy, Ruben Moreira, Sheldon Moldoff
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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (23 March 2020)
It may not be a big consolation in these troubled times, but Gotham Calling will continue its mission of drawing attention to the wonders of pulpy fun. In the hope of bringing a smile and brief distraction to those struggling … Continue reading
COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (February 2020)
Lowering the level again, here is another monthly reminder that comics can be awesome…
Posted in GLIMPSES INTO THE PAST
Tagged Carl Burgos, Carmine Infantino, covers, Dick Dillin, From Beyond the Unknown, Gaspar Saladino, George Roussos, House of Mystery, Ira Schnapp, Joe Kubert, Journey into Unknown Worlds, Sheldon Moldoff, Sol Brodsky, Stan Goldberg, Strange Adventures, Weird War Tales
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10 covers with seriously weird monsters
I’ve mentioned before how the Silver Age tended to produce strange, dream-like covers. There was a time when the best strategy to allure Batman readers seemed to be to give them colorful images that resembled the hallucinations of an euphoric … Continue reading
Posted in COVERS OF BATMAN COMICS
Tagged covers, Curt Swan, Dick Dillin, science fiction, Silver Age
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Batman comics and the Cold War détente
While access to new sources and archives, not to mention shifting paradigms and the cultural turn, have helped produce a historiography on the Cold War that moved beyond orthodox, revisionist, and neorealist interpretations to embrace, among others, constructivist, postcolonial, pericentric, … Continue reading