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The World War Two Super-Hero Story That I Would Tell If I Could Use Any Characters I Wanted

If I could "recruit" whatever characters from whichever comics company I wished and tell any kind of story I wished, I’d like to tell a story of an alternate Justice Society and follow that from about six months before Pearl Harbor to just after the

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Archie in November 2022: Wouldja believe: Bob Phantom?

On Sale Date: 11/16

BOB PHANTOM (ONE SHOT)

Script: James III | Art: Richard Ortiz, Matt Herms, Jack Morelli | Cover: Tim Seeley, Matt Herms | Variant Cover: Jamal Igle | 32-page, full color comic | $3.99 U.S.

By day, he’s Walter Whitney, a fledgling

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Harvey Kurtzman

I have not said anything deliberately provocative in a while (and the last time I tried it passed without comment) so, with that in mind, I'll just come right out and say it: I don't think Harvey Kurtzman was all that funny. He gets full credit for M

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Walt Kelly's "Buckwheat" & Will Eisner's "Ebony"

Today is Thursday. If I don't read my new comics on Wednesday, I usually read them on Thursday. If, for whatever reason, I don't get to them on Wednesday or Thursday, I read them on Saturday morning. In any case, if I spend more than, say, 20 minutes

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IDW Publishing solicitations for September 2022

STAR TREK

On Sale Date: 09/14/2022

STAR TREK: THE TRILL #1 ONE-SHOT

$7.99, Story: Jody Houser, Art: Hendry Prasetya, Colors: DC Alonso, Covers: Hendry Prasetya, Alexandra Beguez

Someone is following Vanah, a research student and ex-applicant to the T

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Thanos! Planet Hulk! Painted GN! Bad Kitty! Deadpool! Big Ethel! Murderworld! Mortal Kombat! French comics! Bloodshot! Surfside Girls!

“Surfside Girls” Graphic Novels Crossover To TV, Series Debuts Next Week On Apple TV+

From WGA Award winner and Daytime Emmy Award nominee May Chan (“American Girl: Corinne Tan,” “The Astronauts”), and based on IDW Publishing’s best-selling graphic

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Marvel announces tentpole titles

MARVEL COMICS REVEALS FIRST LOOK AT EIGHT NEW TENTPOLE TITLES

Celebrate Marvel’s birthday with a sneak peek of DEVIL’S REIGN, AVENGERS FOREVER, TIMELESS, X LIVES OF WOLVERINE AND X DEATHS OF WOLVERINE, SHE-HULK, FANTASTIC FOUR: RECKONING WAR, AND MO

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The List of Superhuman Characters who Can Split into multiple versions of themselves or multiple physical people

Here's the list of Superhuman Characters who can create multiple duplicates of themselves or separate into separate beings:

The list so far:

Captain Everything (normalman) 

Composite Superman 

The Collective Man

Doctor Manhattan 

Doctor Strange

Duo

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Marvel solicitations for September 2022

A.X.E.: JUDGMENT DAY #4 (OF 6)

KIERON GILLEN (W) • VALERIO SCHITI (A) • Cover by MARK BROOKS

VARIANT COVER BY SALVADOR LARROCA • VARIANT COVER BY PEACH MOMOKO

MEN OF A.X.E. VARIANT COVER BY ASHLEY WITTER • VARIANT COVER BY LUCIANO VECCHIO

CAT VARIANT

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Silver Age Kryptonite Questions

As I recall, in the Silver Age, there were any number of times that a Kryptonian (Superboy/Superman, Supergirl, Krypton, etc.) were suddenly surprised by green kryptonite. IIRC, sometimes they were able to extricate themselves from this situation and

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Marvel's Forgiven return, two Image previews, 'I Hate This Place' finale, more

IN THIS POST

• The Forgiven return in Marvel's Unforgiven: Spider-Man #1
• Preview: Image's I Hate This Place #5
• Image announces Dark Ride #1
• Marvel announces X-Men: Hellfire Confessionals #1 (digital only)
• Marvel announces X-Men Unlimited #50 (digital

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The List of Superhuman Characters who Merge Together

This began as a question about if Firestorm was the first superhuman to merge multiple people into one physical body, but now I'm turning it into a list. 

* I'm not counting things like combining mechs as the driver's bodies did not become one.

The

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

When I first saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in the theater I decided two things: 1) I wanted to listen to the soundtrack album on CD, and 2) I wanted to read the series of novels upon which the movie was based. The first goal was easy to achieve,

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An announcement from George Pérez

Sad news from George Pérez. 

Posted on "The Art of George Pérez" Facebook page, here:

George Pérez said:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE :

To all my fans, friends and extended family,

It’s rather hard to believe that it’s been almost three years since I formal

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New Reckless book, 'Thunderbolts,' 'Death of Superman' special lead this week's announcements

Let's try something new!

Included in this post are all the major press releases I received this week. Scroll through and check out the ones that interest you (if any). Let me know in the comments if you prefer this to my previous  method of saving th

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Comics shipping Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 2021

BOOM! STUDIOS

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #32

DARK BLOOD #5 (OF 6)

DUNE HOUSE ATREIDES #12 (OF 12)

FIREFLY #34

MAGIC MASTER OF METAL #1 ONE-SHOT

BOOM! Studios | 48 pages | $8.99

Story: Mairghread Scott | Art: Jorge Coehlo, French Carlomagno, Jacques Sa

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Cross Cultural Dyslexia

I've been working my way through Lone Wolf & Cub for the past couple of weeks. I'm about a third of the way through now, and I have some observations about manga in general which won't really fit "What Comics Have You Read Today?" When Dark Horse fir

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Full list of comics on sale Aug. 17-18, 2021

BOOM! STUDIOS

EAT THE RICH #1 (OF 5)

FIREFLY: BRAND NEW VERSE #6 (OF 6)

LUMBERJANES VOL 19 TPB

POWER RANGERS #10

POWER RANGERS VOL 2 TPB

SAVE YOURSELF #3 (OF 4)

 

DARK HORSE COMICS

AVATAR: NEXT SHADOW TPB

BLACK HAMMER VISIONS #7 (OF 8)

CASTLEVANIA: A

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FCBD 2021: Full list for Aug. 14, 2021

DC COMICS

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BATMAN FCBD SPECIAL EDITION

DC Comics | 32 pages| Preview Material

Writers: John Ridley, James Tynion IV | Art:

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British Royal Mail to issue X-Men stamps

Britain's Royal Mail service will be issuing assorted special stamps and collectibles to celebrate 60 years of Marvel's mutant super-heroes.  They will be available from 16th February, but can be pre-ordered now.

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