The Comics Bin
Everything I know, I've learned from comic books...
3/21/15
A surprise in the letters from Batman #235
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Whenever I'm reading old comics I check the Letters to the Editor to see if there's someone I'd recognize. Surprise, in Batman ...
3/16/15
Mary Jane and Sniffles in Noteville
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Here's my favorite "Mary Jane and Sniffles" story, the one that I started to mention at dinner . Mary Jane is listening to...
Is the Comic "Mary Jane & Sniffles" About Drugs?
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The other day at dinner I was reminded of a Mary Jane and Sniffles story and started to talk about it when my wife interrupted: "Mary...
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3/14/15
Fort Mentality (Part 3)
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Since the beginning of the 21st century, with the omnipresent Internet, the virtual world has become much more explored, perhaps to the a...
3/13/15
Fort Mentality (Part 2)
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I think back to all the forts I had as a kid. When I was six or seven my dad nailed a platform into the fork of an apple tree and hammered ...
Fort Mentality (Part 1)
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I recently read Jonathan Lethem’s “Fortress of Solitude,” a novel that combines autobiographical elements of his life with an exploration ...
3/8/15
When the X-Men Met Frankenstein
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X-Men #40 (1968) has perhaps one of the best examples of an intergalactic facepalm. The X-Men meet Frankenstein's monster, which tu...
1/17/15
The Magic of Cartoons
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Others have written oodles on how comics work and the mechanics of the comic book medium. Scott McCloud, for example, has several books e...
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