THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

 Now this one makes AMERICAN SHOTACON  looks "normie" by comparison. I've mentioned that I usually don't read online humor...

 At maybe age 9 or 10 I came with the same lame pun seen in this late forties funny-animal comic, EGBERT, which was presumably written by a ...

 I'm only slightly versed in manga based around characters whom Japanese culture deems "shotacons;" i.e, "women attracted...

In JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY 81-- slightly before the debut of Thor-- Lee and Ditko have an exaggerated opinion as to the power wielded by comic ...

  While visiting Comic Book Plus. I came across a listing for a small publisher named Elliot, possessed of only two titles, launched in 1944...

 I've been re-reading a fair number of 1970s HULK comics lately, mostly written by Roy Thomas or Steve Englehart. There aren't any g...

 If you were a "Marvelite" of a certain age, and you even dipped for a little while into Marvel's line of westerns, you probab...

 Yet another example of Stan Lee recycling a name (possibly without conscious intent) in the Silver Age (i.e., the Avengers' "Maste...

 I happened to read a scanned copy of TWO GUN KID online and noticed that about five times in the text, the Kid's secret identity of ...

 Since posting this mythcomics essay on one of the stories in Reiji Miyajima's THE SHIUNJI FAMILY CHILDREN, I've kept monitoring th...

 In my recent review of the 1968 film 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, I wondered about the alleged Nietzschean inspirations of the Kubrick-Clarke scr...

 I wasn't expecting to write more than a quickie piece on DC's first TEEN TITANS title, which lasted (not counting three try-out sto...

  In WONDER WOMAN #156 (1965), editor/writer Robert Kanigher endeavored to goose sales by announcing a "New Golden Age" for the he...

I've been a little curious lately as to when comic books began making sustained use of the fantasy-trope that radiation can cause either...

 Apparently, Dan Jergens was back in 2015, because when he wrote a chapter of his BAT-MITE series, he guest-starred The Inferior Five-- cons...

 I was looking up the second appearance of the original Clayface in DETECTIVE COMICS #49 and happened across this Crimson Avenger story. The...

  Or rather, KRIMINAL. That's assuming these KRIMINAL issues came first. If the art-swipe went the other way, just reverse the metaphor.