Marvel in the 60s
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Tales to Astonish #47 (September 1963)
View post: Tales to Astonish #47 (September 1963)Tales to Astonish #47 arrives as Marvel’s superhero universe is rapidly expanding, but Ant-Man remains stuck in anthology-style adventures involving magic trumpets, giant robots, and one very heroic flying ant.
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Journey into Mystery #95 (August 1963)
View post: Journey into Mystery #95 (August 1963)Journey into Mystery #95 shows Marvel is close to understanding what works about Thor, even as Don Blake gets stuck in another anything-goes science-fiction adventure.
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Strange Tales #111 (August 1963)
View post: Strange Tales #111 (August 1963)Strange Tales #111 finds the Human Torch stuck in a familiar formula while Doctor Strange, only two stories in, already seems to know exactly what it wants to be.
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Fantastic Four #17 (August 1963)
View post: Fantastic Four #17 (August 1963)Fantastic Four #17 may be overstuffed, but Doctor Doom continues to separate himself from the pack as Marvel’s premier villain in 1963.
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Tales to Astonish #46 (August 1963)
View post: Tales to Astonish #46 (August 1963)Tales to Astonish #46 is a reminder that not every issue reveals another step in Marvel’s evolution. Sometimes a comic book is just a comic book.
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Tales of Suspense #43 (July 1963)
View post: Tales of Suspense #43 (July 1963)Tales of Suspense #43 finds Marvel still searching for Iron Man’s identity as Tony Stark battles a subterranean queen and saves the surface world with the power of sexism.
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Strange Tales #110 (July 1963)
View post: Strange Tales #110 (July 1963)Strange Tales #110 expands Marvel in two directions, building on its growing superhero world while Doctor Strange opens the door to something darker, stranger, and completely new.
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Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos #2 – #4 (July – November 1963)
View post: Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos #2 – #4 (July – November 1963)Sgt. Fury settles into a familiar formula, but Lee and Kirby ground its larger-than-life adventures in the realities and consequences of war while Kirby brings his own sense of chaos to the comic-book battlefield.
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Journey Into Mystery #94 (July 1963)
View post: Journey Into Mystery #94 (July 1963)Journey into Mystery #94 is completely bonkers. But beneath all the Silver Age insanity, Marvel is beginning to realize that Asgard, Loki, and Norse mythology are the key to Thor’s future.
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Fantastic Four #16 (July 1963)
View post: Fantastic Four #16 (July 1963)Fantastic Four #16 is a reminder that even Marvel’s less polished stories could introduce ideas that would shape the universe for decades to come.