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Masterclass!
Gorilla Daze No gorillas or engagingly silly Silver Age stories today, just a shill from a long-time fan… Should you happen to live in Australia—or are able to get there—and you have any interest...
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Derek and Colleen: BA (Before Amerikay)
Gorilla Daze Gone to Amerikay is an eagerly-awaited graphic novel due from Vertigo next year. No, it’s not super-heroes, or gorillas, but we can be sure that with writer Derek McCulloch and artist...
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RIP Moebius – Jean Giraud
Gorilla Daze I had sat down to write some of the usual frivolous nonsense about Silver Age comics, but having just learned of the death of Jean Giraud — aka Moebius — I’m really not in the mood. Comics...
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The Origin of Walt Simonson
Gorilla Daze This fan art page from Gold Key’s Magnus Robot Fighter #10, May 1965, is interesting for the identity of the young chap who sent in the image at bottom right. Yes, that squiggly signature...
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Happy 2013
Gorilla Daze So it’s 2013. That seems like a very sci-fi kind of date—although very little of the 1970s-promised futuristic stuff came to pass, sadly. I’ve no idea what kind of a future comics can look...
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Black Widow, Only Female?! — No way!!
Gorilla Daze Striking a blow for feminism back in 1970, the Black Widow reveals a universal truth. Marvel should probably have marketed this image as a T-shirt. It would’ve surely looked good on all...
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Captain Accessible
Gorilla Daze Captain America #182, February 1975 I’ve written previously how important this comic is to me. It was the first US comic I ever owned, and therefore the first super-hero story I ever saw...
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A Distant Soil Returns
Gorilla Daze Solicited in the latest Previews, the long-awaited return of Colleen Doran’s science-fantasy epic A Distant Soil. Zip down to your favourite local comics emporium and order a copy—you...
View ArticleThe Alliterative Stan Lee
Gorilla Daze Recently I was reading Twomorrows‘ excellent Stan Lee Universe. The book is essentially a collection of vintage interviews with The Man, mostly hailing from the 1960s and 70s. It’s a good...
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