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Frank Miller Daredevil... and Elektra

I recently completed a discussion of 13 volumes of Marvel Masterworks - Daredevil over in the "What Comics Have You Read Today?" thread. While I'm waiting for the 14th, I thought I'd skip ahead to Frank Miller's celebrated run. I didn't start read Da

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" ST: TMP " 40versary Fathom Events Showing

This September 15th and 18th, Fathom Events is putting on 40th Anniversary showings of STAR TREK:THE MOTION PICTURE continent-wide in various muliplexes.

An article in alt-weekly SF WEEKLY (yes, they still exist!)

writes about it (Can't link, I soww

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Wonder Woman wins Retro Hugo award

Each year, the World Science Fiction Convention announces the Hugo Awards for the best Science Fiction of the previous year in various categories.  In years when no Hugo Awards were made 25, 50 or 75 years ago, the convention may give Retrospective H

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Where Do You Draw the Line?

For most of my life, I never thought I would ever stop reading comic books. But these days I find myself buying fewer periodical comics than ever before. That’s because every time I pick up a highly-touted first issue in a new direction, I flip throu

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How do you display your comic books?

50 years ago someone gave me a copy of Cheyenne Kid #72. It was then that I discovered comics and started to amassed a collection that was at one point nearly 3000 books. I still have the Cheyenne Kid & other comics I have kept. I sold others to get

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The Punisher - An Objective Look

Last year I bought the Swamp Thing Omnibus and the Punisher Omnibus on the same day. Although I chose to read the Swamp Thing Omnibus first, it had been my intention to read the two back to back, but when I finished the Swamp Thing one I decided to m

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Wolverine

WOLVERINE #1:

Now that my “Frank Miller Daredevil” discussion is nearing the end of Miller’s first run, I find myself in the mood to read the 1982 Wolverine limited series, also by Miller (with Chris Claremont). Wolverine was only Marvel’s third lim

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Ka-Zar the Savage

The first character called "Ka-Zar" came from the pulps, but when Martin Goodman decided to publish comic books, he moved that character over to his very first, Marvel Comics #1. The first Ka-zar was a boy whose parents' plane crashed in the African

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Monsters on the Prowl

I've been a fan of Marvel's monsters for as long as I've been reading comics. This discussion will be divided into two "phases." Phase One will be "The Monster Age" and will focus on monsters which will cross over into Phase Two, "The Marvel Age," pa

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Silver and Bronze Quiz! FOES OF THE JLA, part one

I felt like writing a quiz. But I had a fair number of questions I liked, so it'll have three parts.

Only stories set in the old DCU and dating from the Silver or Bronze Ages are eligible. Justice League of America #261, the final issue of the origi

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RIP Howard Cruse

Story

I first heard of him in the late 80's/early 90's. My best friend from college was gay, and I went with him to a gay bookstore in downtown Boston, where I discovered the works of cartoonists like Cruse, Alison Bechdel, Diane DiMassa, and others

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TIMELY COMICS IN 2009?? (Marvel's 70th Anniversary Series & Other Things)

So finally I'm going to post about the series of Timely Comics one-shots from 2009 to celebrate Marvel's 70th Anniversary through their Golden Age. I hope to note the retcons, contradictions and points of contention. As I said before, I could not fin

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Empyre, Marvel's 2020 event

Did anyone read Incoming #1? My LCS was sold out. What did it have to say about this?

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'Wonder Woman' #750 96 pages, cover variants based on decades

I know some of you were following Wonder Woman during G. Willow Wilson's tenure, although I don't know about now. Anyhow, here's the press release:

AN ALL-STAR COLLECTION OF CREATIVE TALENT CELEBRATE  WONDER WOMAN THIS JANUARY IN LANDMARK ISSUE

Ove

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The Clans & Houses of Krypton

What are the different Clans (Houses) of the planet Krypton?
I see:
-El
-Van
-Ur
-Ak
-Var
-Zee
-Zor
-Wah
-Zod
-Lar
-Gand
-IL

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Who discovered Kryptonite?

Who do we think 1st discovered Superman's greatest weakness?

Jonathan Kent

Chris Stanley

Lex Luthor

Jason Trask

Bruce Wayne

Archie Andrews

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Agriculture Dept. Removes Wakanda as Free Trade Partner

Story  I suppose there'll be tariffs on vibranium now.

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Kevin Feige, Disney+ and other news

Kevin Feige takes over the world

Deadline has a story about Kevin Feige taking over Marvel Comics.

The tl;dr is that Feige is become Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Comics, with president Dan Buckley answering to him, and EIC C.B. Cebulski answering

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Marvel Comics #1000: What did you think of it? (SPOILERS)

{SPOILER SPACE)

So, what did  folks think of this?

By me, it was a game of two  halves, the halves being:

1. Pages paying tribute to various Marvel characters, situations or concepts over the years.
2. A sort of "secret history" setting up  a new char

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Ron Ely's wife, son, killed.

Ron Ely, the star of the 60s NBC TARZAN series and the George Pal DOC SAVAGE movie, has had a horrible tragedy

 His wife of 35 years was stabbed to death, reportedly by their son, who was killed by the Santa Barbra, CA,

bars police when they were cal

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