Talk about a study in contrasts. The moody Carmine Infantino cover for Detective Comics 334 features…
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OH, YOU DIDN’T KNOW – THE ELEMENTALS
Before Fables, before Bill Willingham became one of the best-known fantasy writers in comics, there was…
OH, YOU DIDN’T KNOW – GRENDEL, HUNTER ROSE
There are comic book villains, there are antiheroes, and then there is Grendel. Created by writer…
OH, YOU DIDN’T KNOW – JON SABLE, FREELANCE
Long before the modern comics market became crowded with creator-owned titles, Mike Grell’s Jon Sable, Freelance…
JUST IMAGINE! September 1973: The Earth Stands Still Again
In guided imagery, when asked to picture a wise being, I always think of Michael Rennie…
JUST IMAGINE! May 1949: Batman at Sea
An oceangoing pirate might well consider himself to be safe from the Dynamic Duo. But he’d…
May 1958: The Shaky Flight of Wonder Woman
Riding on air currents, though? As a kid, while I had no problem with Superman’s unexplained…
JUST IMAGINE! August 1965: Got Those Beetle Blues
Like so many before him, Mentor the Magnificent was a super-menace born of resentment. “A physics…
JUST IMAGINE! December 1942: Demure, Distaff Dynamite
The idea of a female knock-off version of the dominant male superhero goes back to the…
El Rey del Comic: STAN LEE, UN GRAN INNOVADOR
Stan, quiso crear, un personaje con características, más humanas, que fuera joven y de lentes. …
OH, YOU DIDN’T KNOW – American Flagg!
American Flagg! was conceived ground-up for First Comics in Evanston, Illinois. Launched in October 1983, it…
OH, YOU DIDN’T KNOW – The Badger
When creator Mike Baron was asked by Madison, Wisconsin–based publisher Capital Comics to create a costumed…
INDY SPOTLIGHT: Schavenwulf #1
Schavenwulf #1 A marriage is arranged between Prince Uric Schavenwulf and Princess Elinora of the once-mighty…
JUST IMAGINE! August 1941: A Star-Spangled Similarity
Hitting newsstands in December 1940, the first issue of Captain America Comics sold nearly a million…
JUST IMAGINE! July 1960: The Balance of Power
I remember being particularly entranced by the story The Human Powerhouse (cover-featured in Charlton’s Strange Suspense…
JUST IMAGINE! July 1962: His Baleful Beginnings
In the beginning, the Hulk was menacing with a capital M. And the artistic team of…
Old Time Radio Corner: Unit 99 and Night Watch
UNIT 99 was an old-time radio series from 1958. It was basically the TV show COPS,…
JUST IMAGINE! September 1961: The Fearful Symmetry of Tiger Man
Various Tiger Men have stalked through the comics, but none have really roared. I always found…
WAYNE’S WORLDS: Poor Hal Jordan!
Wow, the new HBO/Max show Lanterns really has people talking about Green Lantern, and in particular,…
JUST IMAGINE! April 1957: The Man With Too Much Power
Superheroes exist to provide wish-fulfillment fantasies about power and freedom, but what if a superhero had…
JUST IMAGINE! August 1972: Marvel’s Forgotten Feline
I have a soft spot for superheroes who never found their audience, and one of them…
INDY SPOTLIGHT: Faster Than Light #1
Faster Than Light #1 By Sarah Cooke Standard Comic Full Color Page Count: 60 Nine stories…
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,…