Astro City: Life in the Big City
(Includes issues 1-6 of Astro City Volume 1, published by Image in 1995)
In Dreams: A day in the life of the world’s premier super hero.
The Scoop: A newspaper editor reminisces about what could have been his fir
Read more…This little blast from the past from the Ask Mr. Silver Age column first appeared in CBG #1590 (May 7, 2004):
A salute to Legion rejects!
The Legion’s American Idol-style review process turned up
some darn nifty heroes--and some that were less so.
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Read more…I'm thinking of picking up some Vertigo issues when I get the chance, gotten curious after Cap's article on Constantine, did Zatanna fair better in those stories than in her regular DC appearances?
Read more…No one seems to know if or when the movie Snowpiercer will open in the U.S. Having read the graphic novel, I hope it will – and soon.
Snowpiercer’s road to American pop culture has been a long, strange journey. It began as a French graphic novel that
For those of you who are unaware, while Flash Thompson was in Vietnam, he was injured and a Vietnamese family took him in. He stayed until--or likely past--the time he was healed. I'm guessing a minimum seven days. My question--would that have been
Read more…The other day, I picked up from my friendly neighborhood library Spider-Man: Spider Island, a trade paperback collection of the main story from the mega crossover a while back. Yes, I know it was out a while ago, but as they say, any story you haven'
Read more…COVERS: I recently threw a few possible nominations for “Best Cover” into the ol’ Cappies memory box, but with Alex Ross doing a whole series of Marvel 75th anniversary covers there are likely to be more in the future.
MARVEL FIRSTS: THE 80s: Vol. 2:
Read more…(Collects Journey Into Mystery #622-626)
Writer: Kieron Gillen
Artist: Doug Braithwaite
Journey Into Mystery was relaunched in 2010 with issue 622. In it, Kieron Gillen took the reborn ‘Kid Loki’ and made him the star of a highly entertaining, and r
Read more…Another show I'd forgotten about as I work my way through the vhs collection and put it on DVD. Queen of Swords, a female Zoro. Last week I found an episode of Cleopatra 2525 and I've found a few sit coms that didn't last a season or even one or
Read more…Moderator John Dunbar here.
As many members of the Comics Round Table are aware, the Number One Rule of this Board is "No Personal Attacks".
The moderators have, more than once, explained this rule and what it encompasses. There have been posts mad
Read more…Welcome to another Comics Guide! I am your humble narrator and tour guide, Captain Comics. After my "Captain's Comments" and you're into the Guide proper, my comments will be in blue. Meanwhile, The Baron has dropped by the Cave again, and in an unre
Read more…From Marvel Entertainment
Oct. 9, 2012
The Future of YOUNG AVENGERS Is Marvel NOW!
Superstars Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie Usher In A New Age Of Teen Heroes!
New York. NY—August 9, 2012— This October, a brand new team arrives on the scene to sho
Read more…This Vertigo miniseries starts from an unlikely premise: it is set in a post-Victorian England where the upper classes have voluntarily taken the Cure and become vampires ("the Young") to escape the lower classes, many of whom have been turned int
Read more…Gerald Conway has come to Collinsport in pursuit of a dream. For the last few months, he's been haunted by visions of the House by the Sea. Now Gerald is staying at the House, he's beginning to uncover its dark past. Warlocks, vampires and murderers
Read more…We were talking about Johnny and Sue in the FF thread and I thought about Wanda and Pietro and the difference between them. Sue was protective of Johnny sometimes, but she never considered him her property as I often felt that Peitro did with Wand
Read more…Creepy Volume Sixteen
Collecting Creepy #73-77 (Aug 75-Feb 76)
Artists & writers: Various
Dark Horse, B&W and color, $49.99, 380 pages
Every time I forget how much the 1970s sucked, something reminds me. This week it’s Creepy #73.
That was the first
Read more…I just realized that I've always thought of them as a couple but she premiered solo. And did he meet her or her mother first?
Read more…This guy, not a comic fan, got a copy of Amazing Spider-Man #1(1963) as a wedding present from his brother-in-law, a comic fan. Now he selling it at the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas. The owner's son Corey AKA Big Hoss and his goofy sidekick,
Read more…Any Hall of Fame is bound to be at least partially subjective, especially one in the humanities. An athletic Hall of Fame can at least aspire to a veneer of objectivity based on statistics. But an artistic Hall of Fame falls within the province of
Read more…Adventure Comics #351
June 1966
Cover art by: Curt Swan & George Klein
Story: The Forgotten Legion!
Writer: E. Nelson Bridwell
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: George Klein
I never realized so many anecdotes I had heard about the Legion over the years to
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