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Conventional Superheroes Today
By conventional superheroes, I mean the ones the people here are likely thinking of when we hear about superheroes: Superman, Spider-man, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Fantastic Four, Forbush Man, and so forth. They have always existed in a version of ou
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The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told
BATMAN #1 - "The Joker"
The Joker got off to a strong start with not one but two stories in the very first issue of Batman. No clown, he, but a psychopathic thief and serial killer from the very beginning whose murders were nothing short of inventive.
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What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Music? What song? By whom? Podcasts? Which ones? Who's on it? The whir of your hard drive while you defrag? Whatever you're listening to, share it with the Legion of Superfluous Heroes!
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Anyone Heard of "Selling Superman"?
Has anyone heard of a show called Selling Superman? I'd never heard of it, but Jim Cornette discusses it here. (Language Warning) I hadn't heard of it, but apparently, it's about this guy who collected 300,000 comics - including some rare Golden and
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Superman & Spider-man - Marvel/DC TEs
I never buy comics out of a sense of nostalgia, but Superman vs. Spider-man is the exception that disproves the rule. Of this recent spate of '70s TE reprints, I buy only the ones I never had or those I somehow lost tracl of over the years. Yet I bou
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So, What Are You Reading These Days? (besides comics)
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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Batman vs. The Penguin
The Penguin first appeared in two consecutive issues of Detective Comics.
DETECTIVE COMICS #58 - "The Penguin"
Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson are visiting an art exhibition when they take note of an odd little man who resembles a penguin. Suddenly, on
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The Crimes of Two Face
DETECTIVE COMICS #66 - "The Crimes of Two-Face!"
[In Two-Face's earliest appearances he was known as Harvey Kent, but that was later changed, apparently to avoid confusion with a well-known denizen of Metropolis. Also, his girlfriend Gilda repeatedly
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Riddle Me This
There were but two Riddler stories published during the Golden Age,* the first being...
DETECTIVE COMICS #140 - "The Riddler"
The Riddler has a fairly nondescipt origin story: basically he was a kid who cheated at puzzles. When he grew up, he got himse
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Tragedy!
So, next weekend I was going to be setting up at my first show in about 6 years. I went to my storage unit, and there was a different lock on it...
My unit was broken into, and they replaced the lock, so the management of the place never noticed. I h
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Movies I Have Seen Lately
Saw a Takashi Miike picture called The Great Yokai War. "Yokai" is a Japanese term for monsters from folklore, as opposed to the more familiar kaiju. It's a kids' picture, about a young boy from Tokyo sent out to live in the countryside with his olde
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The Twilight Zone (IDW)
Didn't know what to expect from this new series. Different publishers have tried to bring back The Twilight Zone as a comic book series from time to time, but the results have never been all that impressive (to me), even with names such as Harlan Ell
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"Pick of the Week" - What's Yours?
Every week, one item or another in my pull and hold stands out for me above the rest in one way or another. Sometimes it’s a periodical, sometimes a graphic novel, sometimes a collection. Does that happen to you? If so, let’s hear about it here. It c
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The Great Korak Time Discrepancy
One doesn't have to read too many of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan novels (in sequence) before smacking headlong into "The Great Korak Time Discrepancy." Briefly, Tarzan son Jack was introduced as an infant in The Beasts of Tarzan (1914), but when he
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Pro Wrestling
I was watching the Savage/Warrior "retirement" match on disk last night, and it came to the ending where Elizabeth threw Sherri out of the ring, and the thought came to me, "Both of these women are dead now, it's depressing."
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The Complete Funky Winkerbean
LISA'S LEGACY TRILOGY:
1. PRELUDE: Lisa's Story Begins
2. LISA'S STORY: The Other Shoe
3. THE LAST LEAF: Lisa's Story Concludes
I recently (yesterday) completed a months-long project of reading all of The Complete Funky Winkerbean from 1972-2007, twelve
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Comics Guide for comics shipping week of Dec. 11, 2023
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MARVEL COMICS
"Gang War"
DAREDEVIL: GANG WAR #1 (OF 4)
Written by Erica Schultz | Art and Cover by Sergio Davila
GANG WAR TIE-IN!
Elektra Natchios, former assassin turned Daredevil, has been recruited by Spider-Man to stop New York
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Tips on using the board
I thought a thread of this kind might help out our new members. If anyone has a question, just ask away.
When you're writing a post, you can make the html tags in it visible by pressing the 'html' button (the rightmost one above the reply box). This i
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