Really the way Helena and Karen have been written is just rare in comic books. Good friends, no lesbian subtext (Not that I mind that sometimes), willing and able to back each other up emotionally and physically despite the power difference between t
Read more…Space Family Robinson Volume Five
Dark Horse Comics
$49.99, color, 219 pgs.
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Artist: Dan Spiegle
Collecting Space Family Robinson #32-39 (Feb 69-Apr 74), March of Comics #328 (Jan 69)
While Western Publishing’s Space Family Ro
Read more…If you have read Black Widow since the new series began, you know what a phenomenal job artist Phil Noto has done on this book.
I am pointing this out because I think before this series began, he was known as a great pinup artist, but his sequential
Read more…I haven't read it, but from what I understand, fans of the pre-New-52 Birds of Prey might want to pick up this week's Batgirl and the next few issues. It looks like Babs is getting a few familiar guest stars...
Read more…Someone mentioned publisher Goodwin's habit of having various companies on paper, and having complicated publishing deals as a method of protecting them from having one go under and dragging the whole operation under.
Can anyone shed more light on
Read more…As most everyone else I liked Birds of Prey and when Simone moved off that to Wonder Woman and then was shoved off of Wonder Woman I wasn't happy. She has a gift for small team dynamics and characterization that fits stuff like Birds of Prey or the S
Read more…Checking In On the X-Men
Back in June, I brought home my usual stack of comic books. That’s always fun. But I noticed that this particular stack had not one, not two, but seven different issues of X-Men- the latest issue of five separate ongoing t
Read more…GRAYSON #1 (Sep 14)
"Grayson"
Writer: TIM SEELEY
Plot: TIM SEELEY, TOM KING
Art: MIKEL JANIN
Colors: JEROMY COX
Letters: CARLOS M. MANGUAL
Cover: ANDREW ROBINSON
Well, this is fun.
I've never been what you'd call a Dick Grayson fan. For reasons that
Read more…We've all done it as kids...
Thought we could trust one of our friends, perhaps a neighborhood kid, with the loan of a comic book or two.
It goes well at first, you let them one or two issues, they get them back to you.... or perhaps they offer a few
Read more…BEST BETS
100TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL -- SPIDER-MAN #1 (Marvel, $3.99): Another in a series of 75th-anniversary books -- Marvel Comics #1 debuted in 1939 -- that shows what Marvel heroes might look like in 2061, 100 years after Fantastic Four #1. If do
Read more…The Silver Age Teen Titans Archives Volume 2
Collecting Teen Titans (first series) #6-20, Brave and Bold #83, Nov 66-May 69
Writers: Bob Haney, Len Wein, Marv Wolfman, Mike Friedrich, Neal Adams
Artists: Bill Molno, Sal Trapani, Nick Cardy, Irv Novic
Read more…Story here Not a lot of info out yet but it looks it'll be happening in April.
What do you think?
Read more…I wish I'd known about this before I wrote my Archie column!
WELCOME TO DARK CIRCLE COMICS
About a year ago I bought a longbox at a show and I'm only now having a chance to go through it. Been a rough year. Anyway one of the titles I've found is Mario Gully's Ant. Only one issue and I've never heard of it before. Anyone know the character?
Read more…In the late 1960s, there was an effort by Marvel to position a new horror/mystery anthology book called "Tower of Shadows". It was heavily promoted in in-house ads and blurbs in the Bullpen Page.
The lead issue and lead story was a creation by Jim S
Batman: Shadow of the Bat #39
June 1995
Cover art by: Brian Stelfreeze
Story: Solomon Grundy: One Night In Slaughter Swamp
Writer: Alan Grant
Pencils: Kevin Walker
Inks: Curt Shoultz & Frank McLaughlin
This issue begins with a recap of the origin
Read more…The line of Marvel Super Hero Squad figures isn't quite dead, apparently. Today I bought this tie-in to the Amazing Spider-Movie, featuring Lizard, Spider-Man and Gwen Stacy. There are two other three-packs available, one of which features Green Gobl
Read more…It seems to me that there were a repeating number of subplots running in some Marvel silver age series, that never were resolved...or, that were going somewhere and dropped along the way.
For instance, there's the soap opera plight of Coach Thorton
Read more…In the 1960-70s, the covers of House of Secrets frequently featured the same few kids in dangerous situations.
They weren't always aware that they were at risk, perhaps being threatened by a supernatural threat or one sees the threat, and is about to
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