Faster Than Light #1 By Sarah Cooke Standard Comic Full Color Page Count: 60 Nine stories…
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JUST IMAGINE! March 1967: Who Needs Super Powers?
Having walked away from Spider-Man with issue 38 (July 1966), Steve Ditko, at the height of…
JUST IMAGINE! August 1954: The Monster Saves the Day
Even with superheroes in retreat in the early 1950s, super-powered protagonists sometimes continued to come to…
HEADLINERS Celebrates League of Legends Music With Incredible Book
Riot Games is preparing some exciting new music for League of Legends, and Insight Editions has…
JUST IMAGINE! June 1953: Exit in the Sky
The Phantom Stranger was sort of a Spectre for the conformist 1950s — less extravagant, less…
JUST IMAGINE: May 1962: The Ham of Tomorrow
Thanks to writer John Broome, the Flash’s archenemies often had singular, quirky and engaging motivations. Captain…
A Look Into ‘Persona: The Official Cookbook’
From the pages of this cookbook, a new bond is formed! Through food, stories are made,…
JUST IMAGINE! March 1976: Superstars and Superheroes
From 1976 to 1978, DC published 18 issues of an eclectic anthology reprint title called DC…
RICH REVIEWS: February 1951: He Discovered Batman’s Secret — Twice
All Batman’s costumed foes are, to some degree, distorted mirror images of the hero himself, but…
INDY PLANET: Man In The Mask #8
Man In The Mask #8 Continuing a masked legacy started by his grandfather, Tommy Franklin runs…
JUST IMAGINE! February 1940: Death Stars in a Comic Book
Once you’ve created Superman, how do you top that? Why, with super-Superman, of course. So that’s…
JUST IMAGINE! March 1957: The Lure of the Sphinx
A gigantic being with a face of a human and the body of a lion? Naturally,…
JUST IMAGINE! September 1962: A Small Success for Marvel Comics
Ant Man was sort of an afterthought superhero, a surprise holdover from another genre entirely. Henry…
INDY SPOTLIGHT: Cabra Cini: Interdimensional Hitwoman #0
Cabra Cini: Interdimensional Hitwoman #0 Following a one-night stand, Cabra Cini finds herself drifting in and…
JUST IMAGINE! April 1965: To Fight the Unbeatable Foe
Daredevil knows this is one fight he’s going to lose, and that he’ll probably be killed.…
Frieren Joins MapleStory in Exclusive Event Celebration
MapleStory is collaborating with the award-winning anime Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End for a month-long event! Starting…
JUST IMAGINE! June 1960: A Hero of High Caliber
Cross Gunsmoke with Batman and you might well come up with a concept like Charlton Comics’…
JUST IMAGINE! May 1936: A Saucy Wink From Behind the Mask
The domino mask originated in 17th-century Venice as part of Carnival celebrations. By the 18th and…
Biggers on Kirby’s FF
Over on the Comics Fantastic History podcast, I have been bringing on guests from Jack of…
G-Man Comics
Contributing host Ray MacKay, the podcast Fantastic Comic Fan Presents, recently sat down with Rik Offenberger…
INDY SPOTLIGHT: There Might Be Monsters #2
There Might Be Monsters #2 In the guise of husband and wife, Ned Malone and Ramona…
JUST IMAGINE: August 1958: Ranger with a Raygun
Okay, he was no Adam Strange or even a Captain Comet. But Space Ranger managed to…
JUST IMAGINE! June 1960: A Sea-Fox, a Martian and Joanne Woodward
The first issue of Batman Comics I ever bought, as opposed to Detective Comics, was 132…
JUST IMAGINE! December 1958: Flying in the French Sky
The superhero fell on hard times after World War II in France. Having been occupied by…
JUST IMAGINE! February 1911: A Surreal Source for the Superhero
If you’re tracking the origin of the American superhero genre, you’ll find that one path inevitably…
JUST IMAGINE! July 1939: Setting the Underworld on Fire
Like the equally fiery Human Torch, the Flame was part of that first wave of superheroes…
INDY SPOTLIGHT: The Umbra Zone #1
The Umbra Zone #1 By Kevyn Lenagh Standard Comic Full Color Page Count: 24 Cal discovers…
JUST IMAGE! July 1939: The Nietzschean Superwoman
Combine Tarzan with Superman and make the character a woman who doesn’t mind snapping men’s spines,…
JUST IMAGINE! March 1961: It’s a Bird! It’s a Train! It’s Super-Chief!
By 1961, the mainstream view of Native Americans was shifting from the villainous savages of the…
JUST IMAGINE! June 1964: The Day of the Dark Defenders
“The first black superhero was the Black P…“ “The Black Phantom, yes. Published in 1964.” The…
First Look at the Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit set
Magic: The Gathering is returning to Middle-earth three years after Universes Beyond: Tales of Middle-earth with…
JUST IMAGINE! January 1943: Justice in Jodhpurs
Captain Triumph was one of those t-shirt-and-jodhpurs superheroes of the 1940s, like Doc Strange. I suspect…
INDY SPOTLIGHT: The Powerverse Jump-in Sourcebook #1
The Powerverse Jump-in Sourcebook #1 By Vince White Standard Comic Full Color Page Count: 24 A…