I recently finished reading Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent for the first time and found myself in need of a little mental palate-cleansing. I first turned to The Great Comic Book Heroes by Jules Feiffer for the third time... sort of. Tha
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The Complete Kirby: War & Romance HC
Marvel Comics | All Ages | $125.00
Writer: Stan Lee | Art/Covers: Jack Kirby
King of the comics art form, Jack Kirby needs no introduction. He was an architect of the Marvel Universe, but his contri
Read more…Over the years, we've had a number of conversations about whether the Hulk can beat Superman, and that conversation usually ends "Superman from outer space with heat vision." Which is fine as far as I'm concerned.
However, what if the two fought as
Read more…Many times in Western superhero comics, someone gets powers and somehow understands how to use them immediately and can do so with little effort.
At some point, it came into vogue that a training period was needed to fully understand using these ext
Read more…Was it ever confirmed that Brainiac 5 inherited his force field from Brainiac? As I recall, that force field was pretty strong. IIRC, in Brainiac's first appearance, Superman punched it as hard as he could and did zero damage.
Brainiac 5's primary s
Read more…I just heard about this, but I haven't checked it out yet. Has anyone read it? Thoughts?
Read more…SKYWALD:
DC's Swamp Thing and Marvel's Man-Thing burst on the comics scene at roughly the same time, but little is ever heard about the muck-monster which predated them both: Skywald Comics' The Heap (SEP 1971). I plucked mine out a bargain bin somewh
Read more…Captain Comics sez: Don't forget Batman Day this week, on Saturday, Sept. 18. Go here for more info.
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Batman: The World HC
DC Comics | 184 pages | $24.99
Story: Various | Art: Various | Cover: Lee Bermejo
DC takes Batman’s war on crime wor
Read more…I'm not online much these days, but I do want to come to the Ask Mr. Silver Age website long enough to with our best pal Craig Shutt the happiest of birthdays!. Try not to collide with too many skyscrapers today.
--Your pal, Hoy Murphy
Read more…Superman robots seemed to be common knowledge during the Silver Age, or at least enough people knew about them for their existence not to be a secret.
However, what about his other robots? I know he had a Clark Kent robot or two, and I'm guessing h
Read more…Despite considering myself fairly well-read when it comes to comic books, I have never read the infamous Seduction of the Innocent by Fredric Wertham. I have seen originals priced in the hundreds of dollars range but, every once in a while, one publi
Read more…My recent re-reading of Martin Pasko's Swamp Thing (plus the comment below) put me in the mood to re-read the first few issues of one of the few examples of his other work I am familiar with.
ClarkKent_DC said:
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Alice in Leatherland #1
Black Mask Studios | $3.99
Writer: Iolanda Zanfardino | Art/Cover: Elisa Romboli
I've looked up whatever Google could find on this book, since Black Mask doesn't send me DRCs. It's called an LGBTQIA+ rom
Read more…I have long felt that any good online discussion of a comic book series requires at least two active participants... not just two people posting, but two actually reading along... one to provide "play-by-play" and the other "color commentary." Tracy
Read more…The following is based on my current (mis?)understanding of what's going on with super-hero comics, movies and TV shows.
1)It is my understanding that Marvel and DC are currently making shedloads more money from movies and TV shows based on their su
Read more…Over the years as Superman's mythos has expanded, we've been given relatively plausible explanations for his superhuman abilities(I'm not going to say it makes scientific sense for a difference in solar radiation to enhance his physical abilities but
Read more…My earliest memory of Tarzan (I think) is watching the movie Tarzan's Three Challenges on television. (This would have been circa 1969.) By the time I read my first Tarzan comic book, I was already familiar with the Ron Ely television show as well as
Read more…So, DC's next big event is going to be called Dark Crisis. Dunno if I'm gonna follow this one or not. I'm kinda Crisis'd out.
Read more…Spider-Man is Marvel's #1 Super-Hero. There is no doubt about that, despite the popularity of the Hulk, Wolverine and other heroes featured in today's films. But when did it actually happen?
Marvel had been promoting Fantastic Four as "The World's Gr
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DUNE HOUSE ATREIDES #11 (OF 12)
DUNE HOUSE ATREIDES VOL 2 HC
EAT THE RICH #3 (OF 5)
JUST BEYOND: MONSTROSITY OGN
MAW #2 (OF 5)
ORIGINS TPB
DARK HORSE COMICS
ART OF FAR CRY 6 HC
COMPLETE AMERICAN GODS HC
CRITICAL ROLE: TALES OF EXANDRIA #1 (OF
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