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This may be delirium setting in, but it seems that Disney have acquired Lucasfilm today for the princely sum of $4.05 billion. This means...

Jim Beard of the Toledo Free Press takes a look at the disconnect between superhero movie box office receipts and meager comic sales, today....

  Chris Roberson, co-founder of the digital publisher Monkeybrain Comics, has put out an open letter today explaining that for the whole of November, all...

Jack Kirby had some imagination, as the first issue of KAMANDI shows. Some of it even came true!

By Finnish artist Janne Tervamäki. Via Boing Being.

Is there nowhere in the world of culture which can stay positive for more than five minutes!? This week we found out that not...

The Avengers, and Honey Boo Boo are topping this year's Halloween costumes popularity chart, say retailers, with sales generally up this year. At Spirit Halloween...

In 1977 Dial Press of New York published Robert Mayer’s first novel, Superfolks. It was, amongst other things, a story of a middle-aged man coming to terms with his life, an enormous collection of 1970s pop-culture references, some now lost to the mists of time, and a satire on certain aspects of the comic superhero, but would probably be largely unheard of these days if it wasn’t for the fact that it is regularly mentioned for its supposed influence on a young Alan Moore and his work, particularly on Watchmen, Marvelman, and his Superman story, Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? There’s also a suggestion that it had an influence on his proposal to DC Comics for the unpublished cross-company ‘event,’ Twilight of the Superheroes. But who’s saying these things, what are they saying, and is any of it actually true?

This is frightening on so many levels. Jason is doing Nancy horror mash-ups., as reported by Mike Baehr. You can see more here.:

We were stunned by last year's spectacular Halloween display by Gary Leib at Brooklyn's own Desert Island Comics, and he's back for 2012 with an all new display. Leib has lots more Halloween goodness at his tumblr.

Disney released these swell classic movie posters in the style of tim Burton's Frankenweenie, which opened earlier this month. But it's still in the spirit of the season!

I know I tweeted this yesterday, but for those who missed it, the newly revamped Time.com website ran a list of the Top 25 Blogs of 2012. and The Beat was on the list!