80 years to increase over twelve million times in value. That’s a nice markup. It’s rare to find an almost-perfect copy of Marvel Comics’ first comic book, aptly named “Marvel Comics 1.” But one in near-mint condition just sold for a record $1.26 million. It’s the “finest known copy” of the comic book, according to…
Yeah, yeah, but when are we getting Shogun Warriors back? Marvel Entertainment and Tsuburaya Productions are excited to announce a collaboration that will bring new Ultraman stories to comics and graphic novels! Unveiled at Tokyo Comic Con, this new collaboration will launch in 2020. Ultraman has been a pop culture classic ever since its introduction…
The Dark Phoenix storyline is revered by creators and fans alike, yet twice now it has failed to work as a feature film. The main reason is because a two-hour film isn’t long enough to deal with the cosmic forces in play or the corruption of Jean Grey. Remember, the story effectively began in X-Men…
On Wednesday, September 11, hailing from the northern wilderness of Canada, the iconic Marvel character, Wolverine, is now at Build-A-Bear Workshop. Known as one of the gruffest, most irascible, totally cynical and brooding heroes of the X-Men, Wolverine takes the stage as an online exclusive collector’s item. Complete with his classic costume and soft claws,…
How do you prove that you’re you? Testimonials from family and friends. DNA tests. Those embarrassing Facebook photos that no one but you would ever post. But how do you prove you’re you, if nobody other than you knows who you are? That was the problem facing Daredevil in Daredevil v 5 #22. He had…
There is little doubt that Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse is a fun movie, exceeding everyoneâs expectations. It deserves its Oscar, its box office success, and its pioneering an animated path for Marvel to explore. The film, out now on disc from Sony Home Entertainment, celebrates what it means to wear the suit. Everyone knows Peter…
The good guys win one. Deadline.com reports: Disney has reinstated James Gunn as the writer-director of Guardians of the Galaxy 3, and I’ve confirmed it with Marvel and Gunn’s camp. Gunn was fired last July by Disney after alt-right journalists hyped a bunch of decade old social media missives that made light of pedophilia and…
Some people read The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl for the girl power, the body positivity, the overall positivity, the young-readers friendliness, the focus on computer science, or the kooky take on the Marvel Universe. Not me, though. (Other people may read it because they are crushing hard on Koi Boi, obsessed with Eric Henderson’s art, or totally in…
Stan “The Man” Lee has died at the age of 95, according to news reports. If you need biographical information about his life and his achievements, we strongly recommend his autobiographies Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee and Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir, because no one could tell Stan’s story better than he could…
This is not a collection of the Squirrel Girl comic. Somehow, in 2016, while I think they were also putting out the regular comic monthly, creators Ryan North (words) and Eric Henderson (pictures) also created this unpaged-but-clearly-at-least-a-hundred-pages-long OGN as well. I’m not totally clear on where it fits into continuity, if you’re looking to read it in…
It is pretty hard to have a team-up book where one of the two team members has no way to actually know the other one’s name. (Not to mention everyone else in the world, who know that name by some kind of comic-book-world telepathy, I think.) And, on an entirely different level, it is hard…
Yesterday, Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist remembered mirthful Marie Severin, who designed, sketched and colored covers for many of the most famous characters in the Marvel Universe, including Doctor Strange; The Incredible Hulk; Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner; Spider-Woman; and the parody series Not Brand Echh, and who died last week at age 89. <div style=”position:relative; padding-bottom:63%;…
