Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where we’re wrapping up our look at Stan Lee’s efforts to recreate the DCU universe – Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating the DC Universe! How’s It Different? Imaginary Story, with dash of IRL For Want of a Nail. What’s The Story? Just Imagine: Robin: A surly young foundling…
Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where this week we’re once more dipping our toes into the Amalgam Age of Comics with Legends of Dark Claw #1! How’s It Different? Like JLX and Spider-Boy before it, it is an Amalgam – a deliberate and literal blend of two separate characters into one. It doesn’t…
Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where today we’re looking at a cyberpunk superhero tale created with the absolute best digital artwork 1990 had to offer: Batman: Digital Justice. How’s It Different? Being a tale set in a possible future, this would be classified as an Imaginary Story. Somewhat unusually for a Bat-Future, no…
Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where today we’re reading in-universe fanfic from 1960’s Batman #131! How’s It Different? This is a classic Imaginary Story, with a twist – it is being written in-universe by Bruce Wayne’s butler Alfred. Luckily, this tale predates the “Alfred as Father Figure” take on the character…but that makes…
It’s back to 1966 with this week’s Fabulous Find. And I’ve been favoring Marvel Comics the last couple of months, so it is only fair to look at a DC Comics collectible this week. As I’ve written before, 1966 was the year of the Batman. And there was a plethora of merchandise with Batman’s face…