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Fan-of-Bronze: After the CRISIS, What Would YOU Have Done?

With Back Issue #159 being a celebration of Crisis on Infinite Earths 40th Anniversary (WHAT!!!) and "Doc" Beechler bringing it up on FB, where I posted something similar, I was thinking about Marv Wolfman's original intent, that in 1987, all DC titl

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Blood Type

The latest addition to Oni Press's "EC" imprint is Blood Type, a four-issue limited series featuring a single character, a vampire named Ada, spun out of a single story from Epitaphs from the Abyss #3 about a vampire in a lifeboat. This series picks

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FF OMNI v6 & MMW FF

This doesn't happen very often, but Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol. 6 (which ships today) corresponds exactly to Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four Vols. 16-18; specifically, they both reprint Fantastic Four #164-203, Annuals #11-13, plus assorted other o

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Supergirl (2025)

Okay, time for another Supergirl discussion.

This one follows...

• Supergirl Archives, Volumes One and Two
• The Silver Age Supergirl
• DC Finest - Supergirl, The Girl of Steel
• The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl
• PAD Supergirl
• Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

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DC Finest - The Superdog from Krypton

Before this volume was even officially solicited, I predicted it would become my favorite release of 2025. A brief perusal of the "Your Favorite Things of the Year" discussion proves that assertion to be true, at least so far. I have been reading it

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Comic Book Rock Lyrics

I was reading Action Comics #398 (March 1971) this morning, in which Clark Kent covers the Seaside Folk-Rock Festival and I thought it might be fun to cite some lyrics from rock songs as written by the "hep" writers of '60s and '70s era comic book wr

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Comics List for week of June 9, 2025

TOP 10 PUBLISHERS 

 NO. 1: MARVEL COMICS
ANNIHILATION MODERN ERA EPIC COLLECTION VOL 1: ANNIHILATION TP ($44.99)
AVENGERS ACADEMY #1 ($5.99)
DEADPOOL KILLS MARVEL U ONE LAST TIME #3 (OF 5, $3.99)
DEADPOOL / WOLVERINE #6 ($3.99)
DEATH OF THE SILVER SU

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Aquaman (1994)

(You may consider this another Peter David tribute post if you like.)

Shortly after updating Aquaman's origin story in the Aquaman: Time & Tide limited series (colloquially known as "AT&T"), Peter David was given an Aquaman ongoing series. In the firs

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DC Finest - Kryptonite Nevermore

SHIPPED TODAY:

I have been bellyachin' about DC not releasing '70s era Superman for so long now that if I didn't buy this volume on the day it was released I could be classified a hypocrite. In point of fact, DC did release some of this material (Supe

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Master of Kung Fu

This is my second (or third depending on how you count) attempt to make my way through all of Master of Kung Fu. MoKF is one of several Marvel series I did not read in the seventies, but has attained nigh-legendary status among its fans, two of the o

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Comics list for week of June 2, 2025

TOP 10 PUBLISHERS

NO. 1: MARVEL COMICS
ALIEN: GALAXY OF NIGHTMARES TP ($44.99)
ALL- NEW VENOM #7 ($4.99)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #5 ($4.99)
DAREDEVIL #22 ($4.99)
DOCTOR STRANGE OF ASGARD #4 (OF 5, $3.99)
FANTASTIC FOUR BY MORRISON & LEE 1234 TP ($17.99)
F

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MMW Vol. 379 (Avengers Vol. 25)

The Stern/Buscema Avengers stands among John Byrne's Fantastic Four, Walt Simonson's Thor and Frank Miller's Daredevil as the best Marvel comics of the '80s. Roger Stern had been writing The Avengers since #227, but I had no advance notice that John

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Superman vs. Shazam

This is the one I was indifferent about pre-ordering when it was first solicited, but Rob's enthusiasm convinced me to buy it. I remember when the Superman vs. Spider-Man treasury edition first came out in 1976. I was intrigued, but not particularly

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PAD Supergirl

I found out just yesterday (along with the rest of you) that Peter David died. When prominent comic book creators pass away, I like to pay tribute to them by reading their works. Not that I'm looking to make a "discusussion" of this, but "Supergirl"

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Comics List for week of May 26, 2025

TOP 10 PUBLISHERS

NO. 1 MARVEL COMICS
CABLE: LOVE AND CHROME #5 (OF 5, $3.99)
DAREDEVIL: COLD DAY IN HELL #2 (OF 3, $6.99
DEADPOOL / WOLVERINE #5 ($3.99)
DOOM’S DIVISION #3 (OF 5, $3.99)
EDDIE BROCK: CARNAGE #4 ($3.99)
GIANT-SIZE MARVEL OMNIBUS ($15

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Silver Surfer: Return to the Spaceways (Plus)

This shipped today...

But how does it compare to the Epic Collection "Freedom"?

The Epic Collection contains...

• "The Answer" from Epic Illustrated #1
• Silver Surfer (one-shot, 1982)
• Silver Surfer (1987) #1-14
• Super-Villain Classics (Galactus) #1 
• Marvel Fanf

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Superman: Up in the Sky

Unconventional storytelling. Not for everyone. Recommended.

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Comics list for week of May 19, 2025

TOP 10 PUBLISHERS

NO. 1: MARVEL COMICS
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #4 ($4.99)
CAPTAIN AMERICA BY STRACZYNSKI VOL 3: BROXTON RISING TP ($15.99)
DAREDEVIL: UNLEASH HELL RED BAND #5 (OF 5, POLYBAG, $4.99)
DEADPOOL BY CODY ZIGLAR VOL 2: THE DEATH OF WADE WILSON T

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Comics list for week of May 12, 2025

TOP 10 PUBLISHERS

I've incorporated the information from Q1 2025. Titan has fallen out of the Top 10, and been replaced by Kodansha.

NO. 1: MARVEL COMICS
AVENGERS ASSEMBLE: THE SERPENT SCENARIO TP ($17.99)
DAREDEVIL #21 ($4.99)
DOCTOR STRANGE OF ASGA

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Legion of Three Worlds (or "Which Universe Are We in Now?")

Let's get right into it. To begin, these are the "three worlds" in question...

EARTH-1:

 

EARTH-247:

 

EARTH-PRIME:

To further set them apart, each of these Legions is closely associated with a different inspiration...

EARTH-1 - (Clark Kent):

EARTH-247 (Conn

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