Stunned, stunned we are:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/marvel-urges-supreme-court-deny-718426
With potentially billions of dollars at stake, Marvel told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday not to review Lisa Kirby v. Marvel Characters, concerning whether the estate of comic book legend Jack Kirby can terminate a copyright grant on such creations as Spider-Man, X-Men, The Incredible Hulk and The Mighty Thor.
After announcing the acquisition of the British hero Marvelman last summer, Marvel Comics finally has scheduled their initial offerings. In a press release, the company said they would be celebrate the rich history and reprint material from the beginning. Once Fawcett ceased publishing Captain Marvel stories in the 1950s, the British publisher of the comics…
Director Kenneth Branagh spoke with MTV’s Splash Page about his thoughts on adapting Marvel’s Thor to a feature film. The actor/director signed on several months ago and the movie has a July 2010 release date. “To work on a story about one of the immortals, Gods, extraordinary beings, inter-dimensional creatures,” are among the reason he…
New York, NYâ August 9, 2023 â This December, the SENTRY is back in an all-new limited series by two of Marvelâs most promising new creators, writer Jason Loo (X-Men Unlimited) and artist Luigi Zagaria (Midnight Suns). The saga of Bob Reynolds and the Sentry was one of the defining Marvel Comics mysteries of the…
I never dreamed that when Disney bought Marvel it would lead to something as precious as Big Hero 6. Disney took a nothing Marvel property, one I had never heard of despite reading comic books voraciously for the first 28 years of my life, and turned it in to something quite fantastic. Big Hero 6…
* Quote of the day from novelist David Mack, talking about Sandman: One story from that series, “Calliope,” continues to haunt me; a writer who tried to justify his crimes as a desperate search for ideas is cursed by Dream to be deluged with story ideas faster than he can write them down. In a…
We salute you, happy gay people of Red Pegasus Comics in Dallas, Texas. Source: Sign outside a Dallas comic shop on the day the Supreme Court OK’d gay marriage – Boing Boing
