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Read more…Recently, someone has brought up the original Marvel fan club, known as the MMMS ("Merry Marvel Marching Society") and immortalized in cameo billboards on the cover of 1965 Marvel Superhero comics.
Apparantly, it was a "real" membership, in that ther
Read more…By Andrew Smith
Tribune Content Agency
July 11, 2014 -- Happy birthday, Batman!
“The Bat-Man” debuted in Detective Comics #27 in 1939, meaning the now hypen-less character is 75 years old. And Warner Bros., parent company of Batman’s publisher DC Co
Read more…For a while after Ol' Greenskin's star turn in The Avengers, Marvel Films asserted that Hulk seemed to work best in group settings, so they had no plans for another solo movie.
But times have changed, and now they are talking about exactly that. But,
Read more…At the end of one of my comments in the Secret Identities thread, I posted, "I never understood why they made CK into a crusading hero in his reporter guise. That just seems so wrong. But then, so does marrying Lois, and they did that, too."
To whi
Read more…Recently in another forum on Facebook, a Jack Kirby fan piped up and asked if we had "seen the mini-Magneto at the elbow."
At first I thought he was talking about when Mutant Alpha regressed Magneto back to infancy so that he could relearn his life's
Read more…My latest column, from CBG #1682, has been posted at the CBG website:
It may seem to come out of the blue in that issue. The PTB
Read more…I’m a bigger fan of Sergio Aragones and Mark Evanier individually than I am of their long-running co-creation, but I find Groo pleasant enough to read from time to time. I bought this one for the mix of funny (Aragones) and realistic (Tom Yeates) art
Read more…Wow. I am SO very glad I picked up the new book
The book is one in a long line of efforts in the last few years to kick-start the Flash Gordon property, and at last this one truly succeeds.
The story is by Jeff Parker with art by Evan Shaner. So far
Read more…I ran across these photos of the testing done before the Adam West - Burt Ward Batman TV show went on the air, and I think they're pretty cool.
They apparently put together the Batman costume first and tried it out, and then decided to "update" it to
Read more…OK, here's a wild one.
A couple of years ago, probably as a result of the November anniversary of the death of President John F. Kennedy, a fan asked if there was any discernable impact on the stories or content of popular comics books.
It seems at
Read more…Someone recently commented that they got a kick out of Stan Lee running a credit on the splash page thanking the publishers of Spider-Man for allowing the use or loan of the character to guest-star in the pages of the FF, etc.
"Spider-Man appears b
Read more…I found out yesterday that the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY film will featutre , in a (one of the ???) post-credit sequences, and appearance by Howard the Duck !!!!!
I had been wondering about that ol' quacker , I thinkmaybe wondering whether Rocket Rac
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
It’s coming for you. There is no escape. You cannot avoid The Strain.
Mainly because The Strain – an infectious disease that spreads vampirism – has already appeared in novels and comics, and will launch as a
Read more…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
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