DC Super-Stars of Space (of Space) 4, DC Comics, cover-dated ruary 197 .
"Puzzle of the Perilous Prisons!" by Gardner Fox, with art by Carmine Infantino & Murphy Infantino.
and
"The Army of Interplanetary Beasts," by probably either Gardner Fox or Edmond Hamilton, with art by Jim Mooney.
and
"Destination Doom!" by John Broome, with art by Murphy Anderson.
What happens when Professor Alan revisits a sci-fi reprint issue that he read (conservatively) a quadrillion times when he was a tween? Can he set aside nostalgia and analyze the comic in his normal cold-eyed manner?
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Great episode as always! A few comments.
ReplyDeleteI also discovered Captain Comet in SSoSV and an odd DCCP. I have been reading comics for about 50 years now. If you asked me to name his powers or even give a 'power level' equivalent I still couldn't do it. A version of him was a prominent piece in the Grant Morrison New52 Superman run if you're intrigued.
I agree that Adam/Alanna are a stable and healthy Bronze Age couple and, as you say, there weren't many. For me, the one that sticks is the original Peter/Gwen relationship in the Conway/Romita Spider-Man comics. I collected a whole swath of Marvel Tales reprints that covered their romance and I said 'this is what love must feel like'. I will say that the Superman/Lois relationship post-Crisis is much much healthier than the pre-Crisis one.
But the thing that stuck out to me in this episode was how your nostalgia for these issues make them mentally untouchable and nigh-perfect. I have that same 'sacred text' emotions about the Mike Grell era Legion, the book I really cut my teeth on in my early reading/summer vacation time (all bought a few years after their newstand runs from the many many many yard sales I was dragged to).
The Golden Age of Everything is 12.
DeleteWhen discussing a work that fits that criterion, that hits all the nostalgia buttons, the best we can do is admit our lack of objectivity.