Odin's Ravens

Okay, Dr. Doom’s name still causes the uninitiated to snigger a little. Let them. It remains the name of the greatest super villain ...

I must have reread Fantastic Four 16 (July 1963) more often than any other issue, and now I think I know why. For me, this was the issue...

As instantly recognizable as its superhero titles or its science fiction anthologies, Silver Age DC Comics offered another genre that be...

The sharp-eyed and thrifty producers of comic books rarely permitted a long-running, profitable superhero concept to remain abandoned fo...

By their sixth issue (Sept. 1962), the groundbreaking superhero team the Fantastic Four faced the foes they’d inevitably been fated to m...

Fantastic Four 2 was the first issue I spotted on the newsstand in late 1961. I debated picking it up. But I was unsure if this int...

The Invisible Woman of the Fantastic Four. Art by Stuart Immonen The relations between the sexes still leave something to be d...

The first time I saw Fantastic Four I was 7 years old, at a newsstand in late 1961, looking at the cover of the third issue of “...

In 1963, this didn’t make sense. The Fantastic Four were fighting some weird character named “Spider-Man,” but the comic boo...