Odin's Ravens

Republicans keep the country stirred up about things that are symbolic but meaningless in real-world terms — flaming flags, gay marriage,...

I always keep a couple of DC romance comics on my prized spinner rack — there among the superheroes, the monsters, the machine-gunner GI...

You know, it’s a funny thing, as Stan Lee would say. Even as a 9-year-old, I was aware that the Avengers, and not the Fantastic Four, we...

Seventeen-year-old Allen Ginsberg had fallen for an 18-year-old cerebral charmer, his fellow Columbia University student Lucien Carr, at o...

It was 1947. In postwar comic books, superheroes were on the way out and women were on the way in. Romance comics had just arrived, an...

London, 1920. A World War I combat veteran, terminally bored and probably suffering what they then called “shell shock,” places a newsp...