I don't know about you guys but I'm a sucker for books about comic books. I have a large number (probably more than twenty) and most of them are devoted to the golden or silver age. I'm always looking for more to add to the collection, and last week
Read more…Recently reading up about a 1960s cafe/space in New York City called Caffe Cino , which was an early place for the " Off-Off-Broadway " movement of that period (on Wikipedia) ~ the listing , in a paragraph titled " Conflicts between avant-garde and c
Read more…I note this as a curiosity, I've been scanning my comic book collection into iPhoto for a while now and when my computer died last weekend I got a new mac mini with a new iPhoto program. I was looking at Howard the Duck 24 and when I zoomed into
Read more…Silver Surfer #98
November 1994
Cover art by: Joe Phillips
Story: Temptation: Power
Writer: Ron Marz
Pencils: Jim Hall
Inks: Tom Christopher
There isn't much I like about that cover, but it does actually look like the Silver Surfer is surfing on a
Read more…Legion of Super-heroes #305
November 1983
Cover art by: Keith Giffen & Larry Mahlstedt
Story: Violet's Story
Writer: Paul Levitz
Pencils: Keith Giffen
Inks: Kurt Schaffenberger
Legion Roll Call: Braniac 5, Chameleon Boy, Shrinking Violet, Colossal
Read more…Legion of Super-heroes #273
March 1981
Cover art by: Rich Buckler & Steve Mitchll
Story: A Murderer--Among Us?
Writer: Gerry Conway
Pencils: Jimmy Janes
Inks: Frank Chiaramonte
Marte Ida Allon, Colossal Boy's mom and president of the United Planet
Read more…I see we've talked some about Batman Zero year over here. However, it seems to have gotten lost amongst other Batman talk. So I thought I'd start a thread devoted to Zero Year. I've read two issues so far and the annual which just slightly ties into
Read more…I do not read Image books. Never have. The only two mini-series I have gotten were Olympus and Turf and neither left much of an impact. But I'm growing more and more dissatisfied with DC and Marvel. I do get several Dark Horse, IDW, Dynamite and Arch
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Have you ever stoped to think about how many years "Marvel" was keeping it's head above water with these monsterbooks before they tried the superhero thing? It's not hard to calculate. Divide 12 (months) into the number of issues in the title to det
Read more…I just happened upon an old edition of Phillip Wylie's Gladiator -- a 1930 novel that was one of the inspirations for Superman. (It's the 1957 Avon edition... and I got it for $1.50!) I'll be reading it soon, and I'll let you know what I think!
Read more…Just bringing this discussion over to ning... What books are you reading right now that don't have a narrative driven by images as well as words?
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