New music releases June 2, 2017: Saint Etienne; Roger Waters; Bob Marley, more
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Pop Culture Roundup: Jack Kirby; Stan Lee; Wonder Woman; Basil Wolverton
The souvenir book for this summer's Comic-Con International features a Jack Kirby tribute cover by Bruce Timm.
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Stan Lee is lending his name to a new organization that promotes "a culture of respect among all communities across the nation."
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The strange properties of Wonder Woman's golden lasso.
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Via the Bristol Board: Basil Wolverton's "Robot Woman."
Stan Lee is lending his name to a new organization that promotes "a culture of respect among all communities across the nation."
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The strange properties of Wonder Woman's golden lasso.
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Via the Bristol Board: Basil Wolverton's "Robot Woman."
Review: "Hero-A-Go-Go: Campy Comic Books, Crimefighters and Culture of the Swinging Sixties"
We live in superhero-crazy times. Most of biggest films and many of our TV shows are populated by costumed characters. But this has all happened before - in a much bigger, wackier way.
In the mid-1960s, sparked by Susan Sontag's academic essay "Notes on 'Camp'," Jules Fieffer's "The Great Comic Book Heroes," the "Batman" TV series and a general wave of nostalgia, American culture exploded with superheroes and comic book love.
It didn't last long - maybe 1965 to 1970 or so - but it was a fun and glorious time, fully documented in this new book by comics scholar and Back Issue magazine editor Michael Eury.
Batmania is just the tip of the iceberg, here. Eury explores all facets of what he calls the "Camp Age of Comics." We look at the Green Hornet, James Bond-influenced spymania, short-lived TV series such as "Captain Nice," cartoons such as "Underdog" and "Space Ghost," Archie's superhero adventures as "Pureheart the Powerful," and much more. If it's of the sixties, goofy and tangentially related to comics and/or superheroes, it's here.
Eury even investigates some of the ads found in comic books of the time, such as the ad for a Superman vs. giant cyclops display at the 1964 World's Fair. Looks cool! Many comics fans have likely seen it in battered back issues and been similarly intrigued. But the pictures of the actual specimen Eury dug up feature a very creepy, mysteriously unshaven wax Man of Steel battling a similarly weird and creep - not a in a good way - monster.
There's lot of picture-packed fun here for any fan of the 1960s, comic books and pop culture.
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