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The episode of JL animated where Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman fight Mongul in the Fortress

 Can anyone remember what issue of the comics that was based on?  For Free Comic Book day I think my LCS is going to have a sale on back issues and I'd like to keep an eye out for it.  

  Still remember it as one of the more brutal fights Diana ever

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ACTION and DETECTIVE ~ What do They Mean , Anyway ?

I bought recent/current issues of ACTION COMICS and DETECTIVE COMICS at my OCS recent times I was there IIRC , #27 and #28 respectively . What in a sense is the " meaning " of these titles now ?????

  They are , of course , the original titles that t

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Substitute Comics Guide for April 30, 2014

EDITOR'S NOTE: After assembling the Comics Guide throughout the week, and spending six hours writing and editing it today (Sunday, April 27), I have accidentally deleted it. 

Yes, the whole damn thing. Twelve takes, an untold number of man hours, a c

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Marvel invites readers to pick stories for '75th Anniversary Omnibus'

I thought you guys would want to know about this. Frankly, I'm not sure what I'd pick after the obvious origin stories, first Galactus story, etc. What would you guys pick?

Here's the press release:

Choose the Contents of Marvel’s Massive 75th Annive

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Legend of Bold Riley 1

  This caught my attention because of the cover.  Inside is an Indian or Far Eastern tale that reminds me of a sword and sorcery Conan or Red Sonja story, but with more clothing and no blood.  The main character is a princess who renounces her thrown

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UPC codes and differing prices/trade dressing .

So I went to http://comics.org/series/3345/covers/ looking for a certain THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN issue and saw , not only something that reminded me of a (Self-hating comment ~ spectacularly nerdish/what the Brits call " anorak/trainspotter/saddo/

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Justice League Dark 30, Spoilers

Deadman has a brief confrontation with a drunk Constantine (who last issue not only ran out on all of them but got tossed out of the House of Mystery by the house itself) and flies off. Zatanna is trying to adjust to her new role as leader, something

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Knights of the Dinner Table 208 spoilers

Fist off great cover, a tribute to D&D artist David Trampier http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/03/david-a-trampier-obituary The main story has all of the characters in the element. They are all having the time of their lives, despite the antagonism betw

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Weird new Marvel sub genre

So there's not a whole lot about Marvel or DC that I enjoy now, except I have found this weird little batch of books that I've really enjoyed recently. It started with Hawkeye, then in the horribly-named but massively entertaining Superior Foes Of S

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Justice League of America 14 Spoilers

 

In some ways this reminds me of the JLU show and the aftermath of the Cadmus attack.  The most puzzling about the issue though is a two page splash page that never happened during the entire FE storyline.  

It's a lot of recap and basically gettin

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World's Finest 23 Spoilers

 One of the things I do like about this book is the sharp contrast between the two main characters and how they can be traced to the differences of their fathers.  Helena (in her case her mother as well) is subtle and moves about in costume, hugging

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Justice League United (in Canada?) Spoilers

I don't know much about Adam Strange but last I looked he knew all about alien worlds. Did I miss part of the reboot?

This was a get together issue with Stargirl (in a new costume I think) and Animal man being asked by Adam Strange to help him with

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Groo versus Conan

From the looks of Previews this looks darn interesting. I'd always pick up a Groo issue anyway.

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RIP Al Feldstein

Al Feldstein, the writer/editor who helmed EC's famous horror titles and took MAD magazines to its greatest circulation, has died at age 88.  A titan has passed.

HERE'S a brief obit from ICv2.com.

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Thoughts While Filling Out Previews #308

Not a lot of interest (to me) this month.

MARVEL MASTERWORKS: They’ve solicited a volume of Ms. Marvel for October release. There are a whole lot of volumes of current series I’d rather see than jumping so far into the seventies.

IDW ARTIST’S EDITION

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Anyone else pick up the new Metal Men issue of JL?

  I rather liked it.  The personalities are not exactly the same as the were, Tina seems a bit more mature and Gold a lot more pushy, Lead a little slower, Iron more agressive, but Mercury and Tin were pretty much as I remembered them from the last t

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Justice League War

Got it and it wasn't really that bad, but not spectacular either. I felt like I did when I watched Justice League Doom and All Star Superman. They are good, they just don't strike me as great. They are in many ways just upgraded JL episodes to me. Ma

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Comics Guide for Feb. 26, 2014

Welcome back, Legionnaires, for another exciting episode of "Comics Guide!"

Let's try a  couple of different things this week.

One, I'm going to go with plain, old bold with my comments, instead of the bold blue I have used to date. For one thing, I

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Can the Silver Surfer Work Today?

With the coming of another Silver Surfer title this week, I have to ask the question: Why? Do we consider the Sentinel of the Starways a relevant character or the product of a by gone age? Can he be a believable protagonist or simply Marvel's most ha

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The Weekly TPB - Local

Local started out as a collection of twelve done-in-one short stories, each set in a different North American city, and featuring a young woman named Megan McKeenan. It was planned to come out once a month for a year, but wound up taking over two

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