Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is a flight of fancy imagining a new DC Comics set in the company's pre-1986 continuity (prior to its reset in Crisis On Infinite Earths): "The Old 52."
Although I still buy, read, and even enjoy a number of current comic books (and I automatically dismiss the opinion of anyone who uses "woke" as a whiny pejorative in complaining about comics), I clearly have greater affection for pre-Crisis. That affection has prompted a number of posts here, so let's list a few of them:
Batman (1966 Signet paperback)
SHAZAM! The Original Captain Marvel
The Everlasting First: Aquaman
The Everlasting First: Charlton Comics
The Everlasting First: Hoppy The Marvel Bunny
The Everlasting First: The Inferior Five
The Everlasting First: Jimmy Olsen
The Everlasting First: Kid Eternity
The Everlasting First: The Legion Of Super-Heroes
The Everlasting First: The Red Tornado
My Crisis-Era Adventures Of Jerry Lewis pastiche
Justice Society Of America: The Movie
Dear Superguys (I Was A Teenaged Comic Book Letterhack)
Rejection Accepted: Trying (And Failing) To Write For DC Comics
Singers, Superheroes, And Songs On The Radio: My Life In Pop Culture, The 1960s
There have been many more, and even that doesn't take into account things I've written about Marvel Comics and others. I'm a comics fan, then and now. Then feeds now in a fantasy about a new line of DC Comics built just for li'l ol' me. "The Old 52" is the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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