Luke Blanchard brought up some interesting ideas in the "Silver Age Superman" thread, and I didn't want to thread-jack it. So I'm following up on his ideas in this thread.
Luke said:
DC's line was shaken up coming into the 1960s in multiple ways. It
Read more…This could be interesting. I wonder how the characters will be adapted.
Read more…We were just discussing Lily Renee over in the Comics You Have Read Lately thread a few weeks ago. I did not know then that she was still alive! But she was, and now she's not.
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AVENGERS: 1,000,000 B.C. #1
JASON AARON (W) • KEV WALKER (A) • Cover by ED McGUINNESS
VARIANT COVER BY ALEX HORLEY
PREHISTORIC HOMAGE VARIANT COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN
VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
THE SECRET ORIGIN OF THOR – REVEALED!
They are the defe
Read more…This topic has come up, again, on a recent discussion. We have some current members who weren't around when this topic was originally posted on the old board, so I thought I'd "bump it up" as it were.
Yesterday you [addressing Captain Comics] sugges
Read more…Story What's to say? Another of the Great Ones of my youth, the invertor of the MAD Fold-In, has died.
Read more…Good afternoon, culture vultures! Here's an overview of the week to come in comics and related pop culture. It's a little late — I usually post on Sunday — but as you can see, we're trying something new.
For the record, in the outside world the Johns
Read more…Mastermind is a British TV quiz show where members of the public are subjected to two rounds of questions against the clock. The first round is one and a half minutes long on a specialist subject of their choice. The second, general knowledge round
Read more…As I was flipping through Tony Isabella's 1000 Comic Books You Must Read (as I am wont to do from time to time), my attention was drawn by the section titled "The Greatest Comic Book of All Time!" (which he identified as Fantastic Four Annual #1). I
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Soon after buying my first Hulk comics (Incredible Hulk #167 and Marvel Super-Heroes #38), I began collecting backissues of both series as well as any reprints I could find elsewhere. I eventually acquired reprints of those elusive first six issues
Read more…These days, archival collections of The Defenders are likely to lead off with the "Titans Three" story (from Sub-Mariner #34-35) or even the "Undying Ones" crossover trilogy (from Doctor Strange #183, Sub-Mariner #22 and Hulk #126), but I like to go
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Four-Fisted Tales: Animals in Combat TPB
Dead Reckoning | $24.95
Story/Art: Ben Towle
In virtually every military conflict in recorded history animals have fought — and often died — alongside their human counterparts. While countless storie
Read more…A sad announcement on legendary comics inker Tom Palmer's Facebook page:
We are very sad to share the news that legendary comic book inker and artist Tom Palmer passed away on August 18, 2022 at the age of 81. He will be remembered fondly by his lov
CAP'S NOTE: It has finally happened: I've received waaay too much PR this week to include in a single post.
So I'm going to break it down into individual days. That's still only five posts total, so it won't drive all other posts off the front page,
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Wednesday, Dec. 8 (7 p.m. ET/PT) “A Holiday Story” — Santa Claus enlists Beast Boy's help in getting him back into the Holiday Mob, which is run by Baby New Year.
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BASILISK #5
BUCKHEAD #1 (OF 5)
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BATMAN
ON SALE 10/4/22
BATMAN #128
Story: Chip Zdarsky | Art/Cover: Jorge Jiminez | Backup Art: Leonardo Romero | Variants: Gabriele Dell’otto, Francesco Mattina, Ryan Sook, Jock | 40 pages | $4.99 | Card Stock: $5.99
Failsafe has taken his family, h
Read more…Back in the early 2Ks, DC Comics released a total of 17 volumes collecting all of Jack Kirby's 1970s output for the company an a good chunk of the work he did with his partner Joe Simon in the 1940s. One thing DC didn't release was S&K's "Manhunter"
Read more…This could be fun:
RIVERDALE'S GIRL-NEXT-DOOR IS A NEW HORROR ICON!
The one-shot horror anthology BETTY: THE FINAL GIRL slashes into stores in February
November 18, 2022 — Archie Comics icon Betty Cooper -- known for 80 years as the girl next door w
