The producer of the legendary "Superman Lives" movie, starring Nic Cage, written by Kevin Smith and directed by Tim Burton, is raising money to produce a documentary about the failed production. He's using a fund-raising site here.
He was trying to m
Read more…Showcase Presents: The Spectre Volume 1 (DC Comics, $19.99)
Reprinting Showcase #60-61, 64; The Brave and the Bold #72, 75, 116, 180, 199; The Spectre (first series) #1-10; Adventure Comics #430-441; DC Comics Presents #29, Ghosts #97-99
Story and ar
Read more…I note that several fora seem to have vanished. The "Sports" posts seem to have been folded into the "Non-Comics" forum, for example. The missing fora seem to have been ones that did not have heavy traffic. I imagine that the rationale was that ther
Read more…Master of the Mystic Arts Edition--With his grand return in The New Avengers and The Defenders, I was thinking about Doc and his place in the Marvel Universe during the Silver Age so....
Fear not! This is not a debate about 'When did the Silver Age begin?' but why did the Silver Age begin?
It's pretty much accepted that Showcase #4, starring the debut of the Barry Allen Flash, started the whole Silver Age malarky, but his revival w
Read more…THIS WEEK'S COMICS
Editor's Note: Due to a schedule change at his "main" job, the Captain's Comics Guide commentary is necessarily limited this week. But the list is as comprehensive as ever, and the Captain has bumped up the cover size to see if you
Read more…After a recent discussion with Mr. Silver Age about the infamous Iron Man-Submariner cross over in about Tales of Suspense #82 and Tales to Astonish #84 or so, it brought up a question of what the earliest cross-over or guest-star roles between Marv
Read more…Looking at Lee's list now, the one that interests me most as a concept is Supergirl. Sad to think that when Supergirl launched in 2005 to such hype and fanfare, she quickly went from being an oversexualised laughing stock to a badly managed, largely
Read more…Braggadoom? Yes, Braggadoom.
He first (and last?) appeared in Marvel Two-In-One #13 (Ja'76) which featured The Thing teaming up with Luke Cage, Power Man. Luke debuted in 1972 in Hero For Hire #1 and in his first years integrated himself into the M
Read more…http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=23952 Interesting article...what do you think?
Read more…Over in the other thread, we've been discussing people (mostly heroes) who died during the Silver Age. Some of them, surprisingly enough, are still dead! That's as it should be, dead should mean dead, but it usually doesn't happen. But in a few cases
Read more…The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics Book Two: Bob Powell's Terror (IDW, $24.99)
Edited by Craig Yoe
The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics Book Three: Zombies (IDW, $24.99)
Edited by Craig Yoe and Steve Banes
I wasn't too crazy about Dick Brief
Read more…This discussion has been coming to a slow boil on the back burner of my mind for some time now, but it’s finally been moved to the front. For anyone who cares to dig your backissues out of the longbox to better follow along, you have until tomorrow t
Read more…I think it's pretty well known when the size of modern comic books changed from Silver Age to modern age...(for me, it was about FF #94 or so, though I didn't notice it at the time)...
but I have another related question...
Many of the older Silver
Read more…Pre-Code Classics Collected Works: Weird Mysteries Volume 1
Collecting Weird Mysteries #1-6 (Oct 52-Sep 53)
Writers & Artists: Various
PS ArtBooks, $48.00, color, 240 pages
Now, this is more like it!
I don't know what I expected when PS ArtBooks sta
Read more…In The Avengers #120-123, our heroes took on the crime cartel known as Zodiac, based on the constellations. Now only two of these guys had super powers and they had some advanced weapondry from somewhere. But I vividly recall how seven of them, and n
Read more…If the usual suspects are overexposed, who would you like to see used? Just off the top of my head, I'd like to see Hugo Strange, Killer Moth, Cavalier, the female Spellbinder, the new female Crazy Quilt (according to wiki, she only appeared in Infin
Read more…So what Comic-Con announcement brought you the most joy? The Fables' spin-off Fairest. The Legion of Superheroes/Star Trek crossover? The new Defenders? The return of Ryan Choi? Aaron and Silvestri on Incredible Hulk? Loeb and McGuinness on Cab
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