As Jeff of Earth-J and others are fond of saying, we live in a Golden Age of Reprints. We have Masterworks and Archives, Showcases and Essentials, Omnibuses and Absolute Editions, not to mentions your everday TPBs and hardcovers that collect storyli
Read more…( Perhaps the below intro gets a bit OTT , but it flows into a review of the The Witching Hour SP !!!!!!!!!!! )
( The original heading was " My SHOWCASE PRESENTS Purchase To-Day.........)
...picks up a little - gravitas ????? - seeing as , not kno
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I was going over some old notes about supervillains and I remembered something I didn't have time to ask way back when. How many gadgets have supervillains used that looked like they had great potential but were never used more than once. In Ms. Marv
Read more…On a whim, I pulled out one of my longboxes where I had a nearly complete run of Amazing Adventures starting in 1970, along with its "sister" title, Astonishing Tales. It was a return of the "split-book" concept that Marvel abandoned in 1968 when it
Read more…From Marvel Entertainment
July 6, 2012
The Future of Comics is Marvel NOW!
Top Comic Book Series ReEvolve With All New #1 Issues Beginning October 2012
New York. NY—July 6, 2012— The most popular characters. The most acclaimed creators. The most a
Read more…What a piece of crap. 18 of its 20 pages were done in "funny animal" style. (Okay, I guess that makes it 90% crap.) I wish I had flipped through it befor I bought it. Oh, well. at least there were two issues of Stray Bullets last week to make up for
Read more…I thought you guys would want to know about this. Frankly, I'm not sure what I'd pick after the obvious origin stories, first Galactus story, etc. What would you guys pick?
Here's the press release:
Choose the Contents of Marvel’s Massive 75th Annive
Read more…ARCHIE COMICS PULLS BACK THE CURTAIN ON NEW SABRINA ONGOING SERIES
New series expands company's offering of best-selling horror titles
New York, NY (June 3) — This morning, Archie Comics announced details for their biggest launch since the hit horror
Many have fought. Many have died. Were you one of the ARMOR HUNTERS' honored fallen? How many armors did you destroy in pursuit of a safer universe? And what brough
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100TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL -- X-MEN #1 (Marvel, $3.99): Another in a series of books depicting various Marvel heroes as they might exist in 2061. With a cover depicting Cyclops marrying Emma Frost, one has to wonder if both of them have a se
Read more…Krause Publications just issued the following news:
F+W Announces Closure of Comics Buyer's Guide
January 9, 2013 – Krause Publications, a division of F+W Media, Inc., announced today the closure of Comics Buyer's Guide effective with the March 2013
Read more…I was just looking at the cover for the Atlas Era Marvel Masterworks volume #68, that features the tenth Tales of Suspense collection (#1-10) , and it struck me how very ironic that cover is.
Maybe somebody has already noticed this, and commented yea
Read more…Another website has posted a reprint of the first Hulk Annual with a little one page contest.
See how many of these artist combinations you can guess. I got them all right, but I can't spell all their names. (See if you can figure out why I titled t
Read more…Usually publishers have to jump through a number of hoops to get signed to Diamond. That these guys did it so fast tells me Diamond is bending over backwards. That's just speculation, though.
Anyway, I post this as a public service, in case any Legio
Read more…I've been reading the Silver Age Marvel Comics in the order they were published. After months of teases and promises, this full-page promotion showed up in the comics published in November 1964.
This was an amazing a
Read more…Also, was they ever any attention given to the idea that different races might age at different rates, or did they just sort of assume that everyone sort of aged at the same rate?
Read more…Wow! Look at what family-friendly Comics Buyers Guide is publishing!
Is this why we can't get sequels to Baby Boomer Comics and 1,000 Comics You Must Read?
Hoy
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Following the announcement of Essential Sgt. Fury Vol. 1, now we get this! I'm really excited about this, seeing more Kirby art I've never seen before. Some people, including, I believe, our own Dave Blanchard, consider this series to be the first "r
Read more…In addition to the Marvel Masterworks that have been coming out for twenty years or so now,
Marvel is also issuing Atlas Comics era Masterworks that collect approximately four volumes for each of the series "Tales of Suspense", "Tales to Astonish", "
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