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Heroes & Villains Releases Punk-Inspired Critical Role Collection
Fans of Critical Role can bring their favorite adventurers to liven up their wardrobe! Heroes &…
FANTASTIC COMIC FAN: GOLDEN AGE DIGITAL COMICS
Over the past weeks, I’ve covered a lot of ways—both free and paid—to access digital comics.…
NEW DARK FANTASY by Eric Miller
ABANDON HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE Basketball-themed horror novel WHATEVER HAPPENED TO UNCLE ED? on sale…
JUST IMAGINE! March 1962: The Sorcerer Who Vanished
Cover-dated at the same time as the third issue of Fantastic Four, The Sorcerer was another…
The World of WWE
Hello, and welcome to another edition of Twisted News! I hope everyone’s Christmas and New Year’s…
JUST IMAGINE! April 1942: Rage Against Crime
In 1942, Charles Biro’s Crimebuster anticipated a question that would help propel Stan Lee and Steve…
FANTASTIC COMIC FAN: TwoMorrows Publishing
TwoMorrows Publishing is the publisher of magazines and books about comic books, history, creators—and, well… pretty…
JUST IMAGINE! September 1967: That’s Mightor, as in “Might Be Thor”
Cross DC Comics’ Super Chief with Marvel’s Thor and the result might be something like Hanna-Barbera’s…
JUST IMAGINE! September 1967: From Sunday Sermons to Saturday Morning Cartoons
Samson, the Bible’s closest pass at a superhero, has had several such incarnations. The mighty Nazirite…
JUST IMAGINE! April 1951: The Case of the Kong-Sized Corsair
You had to admire the Black Cat’s sheer pluck. Going up against a mass-murdering pirate the…
JUST IMAGINE! June 1948: The Man of Metal Meets His Match
In Star Spangled Comics 81 (June 1948), DC’s Robotman faced the inevitable mirror-image foe, an evil…
JUST IMAGINE! August 1967: All This and Captain Communist, Too
When Avengers Masterworks Vol. 5 arrived from Edward R. Hamilton, what a pleasure it was to…
JUST IMAGINE! January 1963: The Price of Dr. Strange?
Even back then, I suspected that this new Marvel character Dr. Strange might have something to…
Interview with the Game Developer Scott Lowther of “Delverium”
Brisbane-based indie studio Sagestone Games has revealed the Steam demo for their open-world survival crafting game,…
JUST IMAGINE! October 1941: Nor Iron Bars a Cage…
Most secret identities wouldn’t last long in the real world, of course, but Daniel Dyce’s might.…
INDY SPOTLIGHT: The Eternal #1
The Eternal #1 The Eternal, an immortal hero with a turbulent past, takes on tyrannical bureaucrats…
Spider-Man Joins Magic: The Gathering This September
Magic: The Gathering is launching a new set this fall: Magic: The Gathering | Marvel’s Spider-Man.…
JUST IMAGINE! April 1967: Incineration and Invincibility
Destruction and resurrection are a running theme in superhero stories. I think our unconscious minds are…
JUST IMAGINE! October 1961: Mayhem in Miniature
In order to tell a good superhero story, writers must constantly come up with ways to…
JUST IMAGINE! May 1954: Amid the Alien Corn
A Cold War “enemy within” vibe continues in Strange Adventures 44 (May 1954), when evil, intelligent…
JUST IMAGINE! August 1957: My Fair Super-Girl
Although the Superman comic books were aimed at kids, the Superman newspaper strip necessarily included…
El Rey del Comic: ABEL ROMERO DIBUJÓ EL ZORRO PARA DISNEY
Un chileno que triunfó en Europa, Suecia y España. Cuando llegué a trabajar como ayudante de…
JUST IMAGINE! February 1955: Fighting Red with Red
Odd that such a red-baiting character would dress all in red. A sort of anticommunist Batman,…
JUST IMAGINE! October 1947: The Shadow of Hawkman’s Ghost
The Gentleman Ghost, a character created by Robert Kanigher who first appeared in Flash Comics 88…
JUST IMAGINE! July 1950: King for a Brief Day
If superheroes were fading in 1950, maybe secret agents were the coming thing? During the spring…
Magic: The Gathering Unites with Final Fantasy to Launch in June
Wizards of the Coast is bringing the legendary Final Fantasy universe to Magic: The Gathering with…
JUST IMAGINE! November 1961: The Stranger in the Swamp
Just as cruelty was punished in Marvel’s short fantasy stories, kindness, and decency were always rewarded.…
JUST IMAGINE! January 1962: Flubber’s Strange Adventure
In 1961, jalopies took to the skies — first in the hit Disney comedy The Absent-Minded…
JUST IMAGINE! March 1963: When Titans Tangle!
Fantastic Four 12 (March 1963) offered something rare then — a superhero battle that enabled readers…
JUST IMAGINE! January 1929: Optimism and Armageddon
The art may seem a little crude, but the sense of wonder is palpable in the…
JUST IMAGINE! June 1966: Finding the First Fortress
Supermen seek solitude. After all, being inundated by ordinary people’s needs and demands would be draining,…
INDY SPOTLIGHT: Fantastic Stories #5
Fantastic Stories #5 A young man learns about werewolves the hard way when he discovers that…