When editor and writer Mark Gruenwald was first beginning his writing career for Marvel in the early 1980s, it must be remembered that it was a very different culture than today’s hot-writer-driven, company-exclusive comics scene. (And in more ways than one: the comic book we’re about to discuss, which was by no means a best-seller, […]
This week’s episode of The Landing Pad has arrived! Gather ’round, as Jud talks “The Death of Captain Marvel.”
Longtime comic fans will remember that Marvel capitalized on DC’s lawsuit against Fawcett, which eventually forced them to stop publication of their “Captain Marvel” family of comic books. Since no one was using the name by the late 1960s, Marvel created their own “Captain Marvel” character and trademarked it. The Marvel version was initially more […]
