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JUST IMAGINE! January 1967: Those Ghostly Memories
So Ghost Rider is a supernatural motorcyclist who made a deal with the devil to save…
JUST IMAGINE! October 1960: This Looks Like a Job for Tiny Supermen!
It’s a swarm of bees! It’s a cloud of wasps! No, it’s a hundred tiny Supermen!…
FANTASTIC COMIC FAN: Super Book For Superman Fans
As a long-time Superman fan, I find myself enjoying all things Superman more so in a…
JUST IMAGINE! November 1963: The Avengers Spin the Bottle
You know, it’s a funny thing, as Stan Lee would say. Even as a 9-year-old, I…
The Last of Us Season 2 Illustrations for Joel, Ellie, and More
The Last of Us Season 2 has been an intense experience right from the first episode.…
JUST IMAGINE! February 1962: The Can-Do Camelot Era in Comics
The scientific and social optimism of the Kennedy era was perfectly reflected, for children, in DC…
FANTASTIC COMIC FAN: Archie Is Mr. Justice #4
Sometimes I read comics like I did when I was a kid, where I just devour…
INDY SPOTLIGHT: Big Bang Adventures #33
Big Bang Adventures #33 While covering the Midway City Science Convention and the amazing new discovery…
JUST IMAGINE! November 1961: Looks Like a Job for Lincoln!
Abe Lincoln as a superhero? As silly as the idea might seem, it has some deep…
FANTASTIC COMIC FAN: The Every Man Duck
Last week, I wrote a piece on all the Duck comics books that are being published.…
JUST IMAGINE! April 1960: Cary Grant, Private Eye
Names like Superman, Batman, Iron Man and Spider-Man may sound silly, but there’s something sillier still.…
FANTASTIC COMIC FAN: An Untold Tale of Joe Kubert
Keith Champagne has been a comic book creator since the 1990s. He’s been an artist, inker,…
FANTASTIC COMIC FAN: Stan Lee and Law’s Murphy
Over the last few years, I’ve reimagined how I thought of Stan Lee. Too often, fans…
JUST IMAGINE! August 1941: The Lure of the Sinister Circus
A “Circus of Crime” would be an unlikely and unwieldy enterprise, yet Marvel Comics has frequently…
FANTASTIC COMIC FAN: Two New Podcasts on Indie Creators
About a year ago, I reworked and refocused my regular podcast, Fantastic Comic Fan. I felt…
JUST IMAGINE! October 1940: The Black Hood – On The Page and In the Air
In the early 1940s, the Black Hood became MLJ Comics’ first cross-media star. The feat would…
FANTASTIC COMIC FAN: The Return of Dr. Doom—NOT That One!
Last week, I talked about how, in the pages of Little Archie, Archie, as a boy…
JUST IMAGINE! June 1967: Marvel Moves into Paperback
The first hints of Marvel Comics’ eventual ascendency in American popular culture came in June 1967…
JUST IMAGINE! July 1962: The Menace in the Metal Mask
Three members of the Fantastic Four were writhing and gasping for air in a gray dungeon,…
JUST IMAGINE: October 1966: The Beast Man EffecT
Whether through superheroes, horror or science fiction, comic books can express metaphoric truth by making it…
JUST IMAGINE! August 2009: The Super Power of Gaslighting
The superhero genre — always a distorted amplification of what is to be found in real…
FANTASTIC COMIC FAN: Duck Season
Right now, we are into Children’s Book Week, running May 5ththrough the 11th. It inspires young…
JUST IMAGINE: July 1965: The Puzzle of the Protean Predator
I have always regarded Menace of the Atomic Changeling as sort of “peak Green Lantern.” Green…
FANTASTIC COMIC FAN: Remembering Butch Guice
I remember the first time Butch Guice, it was during his run on Micronauts, but I…
FANTASTIC COMIC FAN: When Archie Battled Dr. Doom—NOT That Doom!
It was the South Side Serpents from not one but two Archie columns last week that…
INDY SPOTLIGHT: The Blade Of Miracles #2
The Blade Of Miracles #2 Jack and Lancelot have resolved their differences, but it turns out…
Harvest Moon Brings the Farm to the Switch this Summer
Beloved farming game by developer Natsume Inc., Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley & Skytree Village is…
JUST IMAGINE! August 1959: Lois of the Leopards
Lois Lane’s small plane develops engine trouble on her way back from interviewing Dr. Albert Schweitzer…
JUST IMAGINE! September 1962: Norse Gods and Cuban Dictators
A weak, vulnerable person is transformed by magic lightning into a caped, Herculean hero who can…
FANASTIC COMIC FAN: Traveling Through the Tower of Shadows
One of my fanboy “soapbox rants” is how lousy DC and Marvel are at collecting comics…
FANTASTIC COMIC FAN: It’s Archie Monday… Sort of…
Yesterday, I ran my somewhat usual Archie column, but it was getting too long for me.…
JUST IMAGINE! October 1942: A Joker for Junior
I wonder if I’d have preferred Superman or Captain Marvel? Having been born in 1954, I…