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Comics for March 25, 2026

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NO. 1: DC COMICS

DC/MARVEL: SUPERMAN/SPIDER-MAN #1 (ONE SHOT): Sure, I'll get this book. How can I not?

There have been approximately 5,000 variant covers released for this book. I have dutifully posted them in Coming Comics, so you ca

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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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Comics for March 18, 2026

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NO. 1: DC COMICS

BATWOMAN #1

(W) Greg Rucka (A/CA) DaNi

EISNER AWARD-WINNER GREG RUCKA AND VISIONARY ARTIST DANI BRING ON THE NEXT LEVEL FOR BATWOMAN! Batwoman. Daughter. Sister. Soldier. Hero. But since she was 10 years old, Kate Kan

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Does Continuity Still Matter?

I direct your attention to the article which appeared in this week's Comic Shop News, #2012, March 11, 2026. It's not available online, so those of you who still read comics will have to pick it up at your LCS. The folks who publish CSN these days ar

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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 assemb

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Comics for March 11, 2026

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NO. 1: DC COMICS

DC FINEST: THE FLASH — THE FASTEST MAN DEAD TP

(W) Robert Kanigher, Cary Bates, Various (A) Irv Novick, Dick Giordano, Various (CA) Dick Giordano

CAN THE SCARLET SPEEDSTER OUTRUN DEATH? Barry Allen races toward his lan

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Dark Horse Entertainment pushes out founder Mike Richardson

From The Hollywood Reporter: "Mike Richardson Out as CEO of Dark Horse Entertainment After 40 Years"

"Publisher and producer Mike Richardson is out as CEO of Dark Horse Comics, the media company he built up from a comic book store business.

"In his ste

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Comics for March 4, 2026

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NO. 1: DC COMICS

JSA #17

(W) Jeff Lemire (A) Gavin Guidry (CA) Dave Johnson

A MAJOR THREAT STARES DOWN GOTHAM CITY!

The heroes have assembled, but can they work together long enough to face down this existential threat to the citizens

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RIP Tatjana Wood

Anthony Tollin has posted the below on Facebook. Haven't seen anything about it elsewhere yet.

"RIP legendary DC Comics colorist TATJANA WOOD who just passed away at age 99. Tatjana had decades long runs on OUR AT WAR/SGT. ROCK and SWAMP THING, and in

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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, Cap

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The Five Green Lanterns (Alan Scott)

1. Pre-Crisis
2. Post-Crisis
3. Sentinel
4. New 52
5. Current

Alan Scott first appeared in All-America Comics #16 in 1940 as a construction engineer (although he later switched professions and became a radio engineer). As Green Lantern, he was a founding member of the J

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The Adventures of Luke Skywalker

Back in the days when movies were "held over" in big cities and those of us who lived in small towns had to wait seemingly forever to see them, I would routinely buy the paperback novelizations, but hold off on reading the final chapter(s). That was

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Captain America in the Microverse

Captain America Comics #24 (reprinted in the Golden Age Captain America Marvel Masterworks v6 as well as the Golden Age Captain America Omnibus) has a full-page ad for the next issue, which reads: "From the author of 'The Girl in the Golden Atom,' on

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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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Comics for Feb. 25, 2026

It's another week where I have to cobble together the guide. It worries me how many errors might creep in. And it doesn't leave me a lot of time to actually talk about the books! Annoying.

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NO. 1: DC COMICS
From Lunar Distribution

ACTIO

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The Skywarriors

I was flipping through the new Lost Marvels: Savage Tales collection when I came across a beautifully-rendered aerial battle drawn by an artist whose style I didn't recognize. Checking the credits, to my surprise the artist was Herb Trimpe! Editor La

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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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Comics for Feb. 18, 2026

GoCollect.com pooped out on me this week. I was starting to feel confident in its list, and the separation by publisher was convenient. Since it's unavailable this week (and for all I know forever) I'm looking at other sites, which aren't quite as co

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Tortured Hearts

Tortured Hearts is the eighth in a series of EC-inspired comics following...

1. Epitaphs from the Abyss
2. Cruel Universe
3. Shiver SuspenStories
4. Cruel Kingdom
5. Blood Type
6. Catacomb of Torment
7. Outlaw Showdown

Just in time for Valentine's Day, stories include...

• "The Per

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Shilo Norman, the NEW Mister Miracle

Shilo Norman is the third escape artist to bill himself as "Mister Miracle"...

• Thaddeus Brown
• Scott Free
• Shilo Norman

Shilo first appeared in the 15th issue of the first series. 

Police Lieutenant Driver arrived with Shilo in tow while Mister Miracle Scot

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