Jeannie Epper, a founding member of the Stuntwomen’s Association of Motion Pictures, and the chief double for Lynda Carter on The New Adventures of Wonder Woman, passed away at 83. She also doubled for Linda Evans and Kathleen Turner over a 40-year c
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Week 2 in "Blood Hunt":
BLOOD HUNTERS #1 (OF 4) by Mark Russell, Christos Gage, Erica Schultz, Bob Quinn, Javier Garron and Bernard Chang: For some reason, Hawkeye is on the run from the law. And from vampires, like eve
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #49
AVENGERS #14
BLOOD HUNTERS #1
CAPTAIN AMERICA #9
CAPTAIN AMERICA BY J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI VOL 1: STAND TP
CAPTAIN MARVEL #8
CAPTAIN MARVEL BY ALYSSA WONG VOL 1: THE OMEN TP
CONTEST OF CHAOS TP
DAR
Read more…As I mentioned last time out, the unbroken popularity of DC’s “Big Three”---Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman---had put the company solidly at the top of the comics-publishing industry. Not wanting to tamper with success, the powers that be insiste
Harvey Pekar (American Splendor) might have enjoyed this ... or else gotten angry about it!
Question: when is an Imaginary Story not an Imaginary Story?
While you think on that for a moment, I’ll set the Wayback Machine for a little trip. The time: 1959. The place: the National Periodical Publications building at 2d and Dickey Streets,
Read more…After I heard that Marvel had acquired the rights to the Marvelman/Miracleman franchise, it sent me scrambling to find my back issues published by Eclipse. I had read the Alan Moore run in TPB form shortly after its U.S. publication and most of the N
Read more…Some of you may have noticed that I’ve resumed making entries in my Deck Log column and are wondering what that speaks to developments in my personal life. As you’ll recall, I’d suspended my regular Deck Log entries (other than my annual Silver-Age
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Week 1 "Blood Hunt"
BLOOD HUNT #1 (OF 5) by Jed MacKay and Pepe Larraz: This week Marvel launches its gigantic, linewide summer crossover, called "Blood Hunt." You might as well settle in, as it will run for five months
Read more…Marvel's next big crossover begins May 1, a linewide battle with the MU's vampires called "Blood Hunt." I've gotten so many press releases on Blood Hunt #1 (of 5) that I'm not even going to try to condense them. Here are the ones I didn't hold for la
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BLOOD HUNT #1
CABLE #4
CAPTAIN AMERICA OMNIBUS VOL 1 HC NEW PTG
CARNAGE VOL 1: BORN AGAIN tp
DEADPOOL WOLVERINE WWIII #1
GET FURY #1
IMMORTAL THOR #10
INCREDIBLE HULK #12
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #18
MIGHTY MMW DAREDEVIL VOL
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Since the Captain Comics Round Table website first launched in the late '90s, it has been blessed with a number of fine contributors. Some are still with us and some aren't, but their pearls of wisdom remain. To read a given contributor's work, hover
Read more…Last Wednesday, Boom! Studios released a new Planet of the Apes comic book series. According to editor Ian Brill, the new series is set in continuity with the five original films, and takes place some 1200 before Taylor “fell from the stars.” The art
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This week in "Vampire Variants"
Here are this week's Vampire Variant homage covers, in anticipation of May's "Blood Hunt." Can you guess the original covers? Answers below.
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #48
AVENGERS #13
AVENGERS INC.: ACTION! MYSTERY! ADVENTURE! TP
AVENGERS TWILIGHT #4 2ND PTG ALEX ROSS VAR
AVENGERS WEST COAST EPIC COLLECTION VOL 7: ULTRON UNBOUND TP
BLADE #10
DAREDEVIL #8
GHOST RIDER FINAL VENGEANCE
Read more…What I'm going to do here is present a timeline of the feature films and shorts that were shown in the twelve seasons of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and in the feature film. I will not be including the KTMA episodes, and I will not be chronicling th
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Unusual Tales #16-20 (Charlton Comics, May 59-Jan 60)
I didn't expect more from Unusual Tales Vol. 4 than I had gotten out of other volumes of the same series. Which is why I was surprised by the story "Th
Read more…Trina Robbins of Wonder Woman, Vampirella & Joni Mitchell, Dies At 85
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Free Comic Book Day arrives May 4 this year, and I'm already getting press releases. I'll post them here as they come in.
DC'S FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2024 OFFERINGS WILL SHOWCASE THE PUBLISHER’S BLOCKBUSTER SUMMER EVENT, TWO ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVELS, M
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