First off, hello hello to everyone! It's been a long time since I posted!
So, with the upcoming release of the Marvel Horror Omnibus I've decided to pursue an old goal of mine: owning all of the 1970s Marvel horror output featuring continuing charact
Read more…One of the most noteworthy threads here at the Comics Round Table is the What Comic Books Have You Read Today? thread. It was started over 10 years ago and as of today has over 5400 posts! Safe to say a popular and active thread. Created by Wander
Read more…NUTS. And many other cartoons. Him and MAD, ending monthe sameth - Guess the 20th Century is really over, isn't it?:-(
Read more…From DC's December solicitations, a cover by Amanda Conner for Harley Quinn: Villain of the Year (an awards-show spoof of Year of the Villain).
I present to you: BLACK MANTA IN A TOP HAT.
#BlackMantaInaTopHat
Read more…The 2019 World Science Fiction Convention took place in Dublin, Ireland, from 15th to 19th August. Each year, the Worldcon announces the Hugo Awards for the best Science Fiction of the previous year, as chosen by the members of the convention. Thi
Read more…They were aimed at roughly the same age group, though some DC titles skewed younger than others.
Yet Marvel in the 60s only occasionally indulged in really oddball villains or cover concepts. For every Paste-Pot Pete type at Marvel, DC must have tu
Read more…I originally wrote this intending it to be a few different posts, but it occurred to me that they all had a common theme, so I figured I’d kind of lump them together.
A couple months ago, I created a post called “Why Is Acceptance Important?” In the
Read more…I thought I woulds start a thread where anyone can toss out their favorite Halloween reads during this time of year. I know I personally like horror comics year round, but especially during the month of October.
Read more…I'm creating a list and history of Martians in Comics and Comics about Mars.
John Carter
J'onn J'onzz
Exigius 12½
Marvin the Martian
The Martian Ambassador
In my larger project to display some of my favorite comics on the wa
Read more…By all accounts, Kirby came close to being killed in the Second World War. If he had, I suppose he'd be remembered today as the co-creator of Captain America, and as a prolific artist who'd worked on a number of strips during his all-too-short care
Read more…I hope everyone will read this post before answering the question, because it's more complicated than that.
Lately, I've been contemplating why it's important for comic book culture to be recognized by the comics community at large.
I have been a fan
Read more…45 years ago someone gave me a copy of Cheyenne Kid #72. I discovered comics and 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 me more, or lost some in movi
Read more…I just saw this on Facebook:
I’m posting today with a heavy heart. The extraordinary Ernie Colón passed away yesterday afternoon in his home at the age of 88, surrounded by family, after over a year battling — and I mean
I just learned that Titan Comics is putting out new collections of Max Allen Collins & Terry Beatty's Ms. Tree comics, with the first volume, One Mean Mother, coming out later this month. It'll be part of their Hard Case Crime line, which makes sense
Read more…NAMOR (2003):
By "recent" I mean "2003." I've led a discussion of this series once before, when it was new. I hate to repeat myself, but those posts are no longer accessible. Also, with the upcoming release of Bill Evertt's Sub-Mariner (not to mentio
Read more…Finally got around to seeing AVENGERS: ENDGAME last night, and mostly enjoyed it (like almost all the Marvel movies, I loved the early scenes and the character bits, was bored to tears by the big, endless fight at the end). It got me to thinking thou
Read more…I'm volunteering again at this year's Heroes Convention in lovely Charlotte, NC. They are calling us Sidekicks this year, complete with badges and yellow t-shirts. It's a good idea: makes the volunteers easy to spot on the floor, and helps when you'r
Read more…What about the often-told ~ favle?? ~ of comics shops that deal with not wanting to order something little-known by simply teeling you that something that is published and available is not available, does not exist? Has anyone here ever run into thii
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