Wertham: Friend or foe?
While Fredric Wertham is the archetypal real-life bogeyman of comics, his legacy is not all black and white. Bart Beatty, author of Frederic Wertham...
Color Quandaries #2: The Barks Affair
Excitement ran high on various message boards when an Amazon listing was found for The Carl Barks Collection Set 1, to be published...
Color Quandaries #1: Killing Joke
There's a handsome new hardcover edition of THE KILLING JOKE by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland out, featuring remastered color by Bolland. PopCultureShock has...
Al Jaffee amazement
We take back everything bad we were just saying about The Internet. This Flash-based New York Times tribute to Mad's Al Jaffee and his...
Siegels awarded Superman rights
In a stunning decision, the heirs of Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman, have been granted the copyright to Action Comics Vol. 1. Jeff Trexler...
Remembrance of Werthams Past
David Hajdu's The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America has been getting a great deal of press. The story...
The truth about comics
Doc Lehman wrote to share a gallery of photos from the 1930’s and 1940’s of people reading comics and newsstands. You should go check...
Snake Eyes
The first picture of Snake Eyes, played by Ray Park, from the GI JOE movie has been released. We give this its own spot...
Tom Brevoort’s Unknown Greats
"Great" might not be exactly the word some would use, but Marvel editor Tom Brevoort's look back at some under-appreciated comics he worked on...
RIP — The Real Mlle. Marie?
While reading the NYT today, I was struck by the obit of Pearl Cornioley, a resistance fighter during WWII, who died a few weeks...
Save the Rain Forest
Is that what it's like to be an old timer?
"Cured the Black Plague? Why, I remember when I was a kid, we'd pass stacks...
