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AN ANCIENT WAKANDAN THREAT IS UNLEASHED IN BLACK PANTHER: UNCONQUERED!
Bryan Edward Hill and Alberto Foche team up for an epic new Black Panther one-shot this November

New York, NY— August 5, 2022 — This fall, all eyes will be on Wakanda! In ad

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This Week in Comics: Jan. 10-16, 2022

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MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT AND SIRIUSXM PREMIERE NEW SCRIPTED PODCAST SERIES ‘MARVEL’S WASTELANDERS: BLACK WIDOW’ ON JANUARY 10

The next chapter of the Marvel’s "Wastelanders" audio epic has arrived! Today, Marvel Entertainment and SiriusXM

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Ray Palmer and Jean Loring's Wedding

I posted this on FB, but I wanted to get people's thoughts here, as well.

I remember reading this as a kid, and thinking, "They must have had to come up with a lot of backstories as to how they knew each other in their 'civilian' lives."

Also, are

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'I Hate Fairyland' returns

IN THIS POST

• I Hate Fairyland #1
• Invincible Iron Man #1
• Phenomena: The Golden City of Eyes GN
• Koschei in Hell #1
• soccer superheroes
• X-Men: S.O.S. teaser
• BIg Ethel Energy Vol 1
• Big Ethel Energy Vol. 51
• Archie Milestones Digest #16: 2000s
• Bob Phantom

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Be careful about what you ask for ...!

For my birthday today, my son offered to treat me to lunch. I said sure, but stipulated I wanted chocolate cake at some point in the day. 

He delivered, and how. Here's my birthday card:

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Reactions to the Thirteen "Lost" Characters (SPOILERS)

This will contain my initial reactions to the thirteen "lost" characters, based on the information provided in the New Golden Age #1.  As is my custom, here are some irrelevant pictures to serve as spoiler space:

Thanos would live to regret interr

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This Week in Comics: Aug. 31-Sept. 1, 2021

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Aquaman 80th Anniversary Special 100-Page Super Spectacular

DC Comics | $9.99

Story: Dan Jurgens, Geoff Johns, Brandon Thomas, Chuck Brown, Stephanie Phillips, Michael Moreci, Marguerite Bennett, Dan Watters, Jeff Parker, Shawn Aldridge,

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She-Hulk

When I was in elementary school I would buy every first issue I saw... not because I thought it would be "worth something someday" but because I wanted to be in on the beginning of something. (I had grand visions of Skull the Slayer #200, for exampl

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Ellery Queen Bibliography

Over on The Maze Agency thread the subject of Ellery Queen has arisen since he and his father Inspector Richard Queen guest starred in issue 9 of that series, "The English Channeler Mystery".

For those interested and not to tie up that thread, below

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Petty Crimes

Inspired by today's read of Secret Society of Super Villains #3, in which we see Mirror Master and Captain Boomerang use incredible technology to steal some hamburgers, I'm staring up this new thread. Use this place to post pictures and sequences of

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Captain Britain

I have been in the mood to reread Alan Moore's Miracleman for some time now, but I decided to wait for the "omnibus" edition to be released so that I can read it in the format it deserves. In the meantime, I decided to reread Alan Moore's Captain Bri

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Comic Collecting Precepts

Ever since the '80s, I've held two precepts regarding comic book collecting:

• Don't buy what you don't read.
• Don't read what you don't enjoy.

I thought this pair clever because the unstated third is therefore, "Don't buy what you don't enjoy." ("Obv

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List of Precognitive Superhumans

Let's catalog a list of Superhuman characters with pre-cognitive abilities, or the ability to accurately predict the future. No charlatans or scanners, just the real deal. Also, the character needs to use the power more than once in multiple stories

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This Week in Comics: Oct. 19-20, 2021

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Aquaman: King of Atlantis (Thursday, Oct. 21)

"Chapter Two: Primordeous"

It's Aquaman’s first day on the job as King of Atlantis and he’s got a LOT of catching up to do. Luckily, he has his two royal advisors to back him up — Vulko, th

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The Maze Agency

I read a  lot of comic books back in the '80s, but I didn't read everything. One title I was aware of, had heard good things about but never tried, was The Maze Agency. Over the years, The Maze Agency had seven issues at Comico, #8-23 (plus an annua

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Comic Book Prices versus Formats

When I first started reading comic books back in 1974, the average issue was 20 pages of story and art within a 32 page (counting covers) magazine for 20 cents.

In contrast, the Golden Age of Comic Books began with 64 pages for TEN CENTS.

The first m

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Marvel Comics for October 2022

MIRACLEMAN

MIRACLEMAN #0 ONE-SHOT

Story: Neil Gaiman, Jason Aaron, Mike Carey, Ty Templeton, Peach Momoko & More! | Art: Mark Buckingham, Leinil Francis Yu, Ty Templeton, Peach Momoko & More! | Cover: Alan Davis | Variants: Peach Momoko, Terry Dodson

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X-men/Doom Patrol sales questions

We're all aware that the X-men and the Doom Patrol debuted pretty closely to one another. Assuming sales data is available, which one sold better initially? Was either one considered a hit, sales-wise? 

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The Eye of Agamotto

My wife got me this. It is crazy cool.

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What was the point in grafting Adamantium to Wolverine's bones?

Given Wolverine's ability to regenerate his body, what good did grafting Adamantium to his bones do? I can understand doing the claws to make them sharper and stronger, but none of the rest of it makes sense to me. It didn't make him stronger and I d

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