A friend of mine has been slowly foraging through the early SUPERBOYS thanks to the online site READ COMICS ONLINE, and I thought I would share his insights here, though he's only up to 1956.
Many Silver Age fans will have heard that Pa and Ma Kent
Read more…Anyone else reading the latest Hellblazer comics? It's as strong as the book has every been. Si Spurrier, Aaron Campbell & Jordie Bellaire have made it brutal and topical, recalling the early days of the character. This feels like the Jamie Delano/Jo
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The first print Marvels arrive since late April, on May 27.
Bleeding Cool posted a press release from Yen Press alerting me to the fact that the publisher was releasing a great many manga on May 26. The list on Bleeding Cool didn’t match the on
Read more…Joe Sinnott's Facebook page is reporting that he died this morning.
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Story I must confess that I wasn't up on this story. Anyone have any thoughts or insights on this?
Read more…I am working my way through The Golden Age Hawkman Archives for the second time. The stories, from Flash Comics #1-22, are all written by Gardner Fox. The first three are illustrated by Dennis Neville, but the volume is notable mostly for the art by
Read more…DC recently announced a "robust" expansion of its Digital First program -- seemingly with an aim to get a new title onto the digital shelf every day. As I mentioned in the Walmart thread, the initial stories are drawn from the new content in the Gian
I know we typically avoid politics here, but I thought it worth noting how comics-related images have permeated world culture.
Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross are curating a series of done-in-one stories by different creative teams set at different times in the Marvel universe. Which is definitely intriguing... but then the first one has been announced, and it stars the Invaders a
Read more…Excerpted from “Jack Kirby’s Gods & Heroes” by Greg Potter, Amazing Heroes #100, 1986.
“The first and most lasting impression we receive from Jack Kirby’s art is that of power. On page one, even while resting, Izaya and his elegant wife Avia are dep
Read more…I've got somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 longboxes. Maybe 50. So many comics, purchased over 40 years.
And I remember thinking that there'd be a point, sometime in the future, that I'd want to go back and reread those books -- the good and the b
Story Uderzo was the co-creator, with Rene Goscinny, of Asterix the Gaul. Another comics great gone.
Read more…I've been reading Steve Canyon strips from IDW's Library of American Comics collections, a month every day, for the last few weeks. I started with volume 2, since that's the volume I had. But now I'm flashing back to volume 1, and since there was som
Read more…When Iron Man 2020 was first introduced in the Machine Man limited series in 1985, I thought to myself, “That’s gonna come back to bite ‘em in the arse 35 years from now!” In retrospect, I don’t know why I thought Iron Man 2020 would be any different
Read more…1)It seems to me that I saw the Maggia mentioned a lot in Marvel comics 40 years ago, but I haven't seen them mentioned in a while. Of course, I don't read as many Marvels as I used to, so maybe they're just not in the books I read.
2)Is there any
Read more…It's being widely reported that Dan Didio is no longer co-publisher of DC Comics. What this means for the upcoming 5G initiative, or DC Comics in general, remains to be seen. For now, it seems, Jim Lee is sole publisher, but that might be an interim
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