It’s one thing to take Batman off the comic-book page and make his costume still look good in a live-action feature, but Captain America presents a far bigger challenge — the hero is essentially a walking flag, which might leave many average moviegoers giggling instead of saluting. But director Joe Johnston and the team at [...]
“This isn’t surprising. The purpose of the community was to post comic pages and stories, which made it a good way to read a wide range of comic content online without the participation of the copyright holders, who tend not to like that kind of open sharing. The site originally started with a focus on [...]
Could Kindle-like devices put the KABOOM! on the comic book business? That’s the fear of some publishers who see the hand-held digital book readers as a DIRECT THREAT to their viability. Sales of paper-based graphic novels are actually up 5% but at the recent Comic Con New York, industry analysts cast a wary eye at [...]
“If our list of the ten most expensive comic books at the New York Comic Con is any indication, the high-end comic book market hasn’t yet experienced any fallout from the Financiapocalypse.”
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Bruce Wayne – who by night is Batman – gets murdered by a man claiming to be the father he thought was dead. In a highly controversial new storyline Bruce, who first appeared in 1939, is killed by Simon Hurt – the leader of the shady Black Glove organisation. Simon claims he is really Dr [...]
DC Comics is asking stores around the country to destroy tens of thousands of copies of a new Batman comic book because of a printing error that revealed a slew of obscenities.
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“It’s a funeral fit for a superhero. In the drizzling rain at Arlington National Cemetery, thousands of grieving patriots solemnly watch as the pallbearers—Iron Man, the Black Panther, Ben Grimm and Ms. Marvel—carry a casket draped with an American flag.”
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“Captain America has undertaken his last mission at least for now… The venerable superhero is killed in the issue of his namesake comic that hit stands Wednesday, the New York Daily News reported. On the new edition’s pages, a sniper shoots down the shield-wielding hero as he leaves a courthouse.”
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Martin Nodell, the creator of Green Lantern, the comic book superhero who uses his magical ring to help him fight crime, died Saturday. He was 91.
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