Author: Blaise Tassone
“Worlds will live, worlds will die, and the DC Universe will never be the same…” That was the tagline for the 1985 maxi-series event that forever changed the DC universe and the comics industry itself. In hindsight, thirty-three years later, it can be said that Marv...
Starting out in the early 1940s working on the Zip and Pep titles (from MLJ, later Archie, comics), celebrated comics artist extraordinaire Gil Kane first came to the wider attention of the comic buying public through work produced for DC comics. Kane would go on to...
I posted about Santa Claus in comics the other day (here). In this post, by contrast, I’m going to discuss Christmas comics more generally. Some of them have Santa, some don’t; however all of them have memorable Christmas themes and stories exemplifying the Holiday spirit....
These are interesting times for investment assets as, by now, anyone paying attention has probably noticed that there’s a definite drop and slowdown happening in the stock market. Will comics be hurt by this latest stock market downturn? Should you sell all your blue chip key...
If you’ve been reading comics for a while you’ve probably encountered the work of writer John Marc DeMatteis. Probably best known for his contributions to DCs horror anthology books and his scripts for Marvel titles such as: Captain America, The Defenders and, most notably, Spider-man, DeMatteis...
Apparently, Keanu Reeves wants to play Wolverine. I like Reeves, and especially in his early movies like ‘Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure’ and the original ‘Matrix’, where he was well-cast for the roles he played, but I don’t see him as Wolverine. I think...
So many popular (and not so popular) comic book characters have now appeared either in movies or live action programs, it’s becoming difficult to surprise anyone when an obscure character gets a movie or TV show role these days. Let’s face it, if Groot the...
It takes no special insight to see that Spider-man and Spider-man related comics and characters are hot right now. Whether it’s Spider-Gwen, Miles Morales, Spider-man 2099, heck, even Peter Porker the Amazing Spider-Ham, values on all these characters and their key comics are rising. But one...
Whether it’s super-hero comics or Archie or alternative and underground books, Santa is a universally recognized figure who can be brought in to share a story or two with Superman or Spider-man and bring a smile to the reader's face. In fact, Father Christmas has a...
I want to examine here the comics that form the roots of the now popular Incredible Hulk title. As is well known, the success of Incredible Hulk #181 has led to something like a spike regarding other Bronze Age Hulk issues otherwise long ignored (#180...
