Title: Captain Marvel and the Bomb Post by: TELLE on June 29, 2006, 06:45:29 PM Over at the Comics Comics blog, a great discussion of an old Capt. Marvel story concerning radioactivity and nuclear war.
http://comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com/2006/06/captain-strangelove.html Greta images and trenchant commentary. Comics Comics is a new free magazine. Title: Re: Captain Marvel and the Bomb Post by: MatterEaterLad on July 03, 2006, 11:16:25 AM Interesting...I think they definitely had the leg up on DC, who at the time dealt with the atomic bomb as something Luthor could make into a grenade-sized weapon and toss at Superman ("Battle of the Atoms")...
Title: Re: Captain Marvel and the Bomb Post by: Genis Vell on July 11, 2006, 03:29:07 AM I suppose that story was a shock for the children in 1946. There is something scary in those pages, seeing Captain Marvel unable to solve things while the world is destroied.
A great tale, really. |