Love Everlasting Volume 1; and Ice Cream Man Volume 11- Horror, Horror. Ice Cream Man is great as always, but Love Everlasting was a surprise, despite the all-star creative team (Tom King, writer; Elsa Charretier, artist; Matt Hollingsworth, colorist; Clayton Cowles, letterer). I was not…
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...but I would not say it was…"
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"Remember when Archie Comics also had superheroes? From March 1962, courtesy of the Grand Comics…"
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"Episode 4: "Five Seconds Before the Explosion"
Another generic Ultraman episode, livened only by…"
Another generic Ultraman episode, livened only by…"
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The World War II Career of Captain America
Inspired by Captain America #32 (2000), I wrote a letter to the Comics Buyer's Guide which was printed in #1362. In it, I traced Captain America's involvement in World War II solely through what was revealed in the comics themselves. What follows is…
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William Naslund, Captain America
Since Jeff is doing yeoman work on Steve Rogers and Jeff Mace, I thought I'd help out with William Naslund. I cobbled together a list of likely appearances, and lifted, wrote or re-wrote summaries from online. This is a quick and dirty summary…
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Jeff Mace, Captain America*
*(Transcribed from George Olshevsky's The Marvel Comics Index v1 #8A.)Eventually, of course, the War ended. The Axis was crushed. (Was there ever any doubt that we would win?) And all the Marvel superheroes found themselves effectively out of a job.…
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Ultraman (Back to the Beginning)
I was a big fan of Ultraman when I was a kid. In the early ‘90s I discovered there was a new “Ultraman” show, but unfortunately I was more interested in acquiring episodes of the old show on VHS than I was episodes of the new one. Somewhat later I…
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A Cover a Day
Ok, how about this for an idea. We take it in turns to post a favourite (British spelling) comic cover every day. This went really well on the comic fan website that I used to frequent. What we tried to do was find a theme or subject and follow…
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Ship Carrying Fantagraphics Books Struck by Iranian Missile In Straits of Hormuz
Story Books affected include Bitchy!, by Roberta Gregory, and Atlas Comics Library No. 9.
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Movies I Have Seen Lately
Saw a Takashi Miike picture called The Great Yokai War. "Yokai" is a Japanese term for monsters from folklore, as opposed to the more familiar kaiju. It's a kids' picture, about a young boy from Tokyo sent out to live in the countryside with his…
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Comics Guide for comics shipping week of Dec. 11, 2023
TOP 5 PUBLISHERS MARVEL COMICS "Gang War" DAREDEVIL: GANG WAR #1 (OF 4) Written by Erica Schultz | Art and Cover by Sergio Davila GANG WAR TIE-IN! Elektra Natchios, former assassin turned Daredevil, has been recruited by Spider-Man to stop New York…
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Golden Age Captain America Stories
Recently, over in the JSA" thread, we've been discussing Golden Age stories vs. modern retellings citing Adventure Comics/Sandman Mystery Theatre and Captain America Comics/Invaders as examples of comic book stories that "really happened." In it,…
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