Marvel

Now that Miracleman is finally being reprinted, the holy grail of comics reprints would be the 70/80s run of Marvel's MASTER OF KUNG FU,...

________ By Matt O'Keefe Not only has Mark Waid been pioneering digital comics over the past few years; he’s also broken new ground in mainstream comics....

In today's foreshortened comics world, 25 is the new 50, and any book that gets to a 25th issue gets a gala celebration. Thus...

While we don’t have any market research, the eyes don’t lie. If you go to conventions and comic book stores, more and more female...

By Jeffrey O. Gustafson Kamala Khan is a sixteen year old girl from Jersey City. She has the same pressures as any teenager: friends, family,...

Mark Morales is a comic book superstar. Having worked on many of the best-selling Marvel titles of the last few years, he's worked as...

The Hero Initiative remains an essential part of the comics industry. They offer support to comic creators who have suffered injuries, sickness, or other...

It's been announced that Mike Marts, DC's Batman group editor, has moved to Marvel Comics this week as an Executive Editor. Having overseen the...

EMPIRE magazine is having a big cover reveal day showing 25 character covers in 24 hours from X-Men; Days of Future Past, the eagerly...

by Jeffrey O. Gustafson The on-again off-again imprint Marvel Knights played a very important role in the current Marvel Entertainment empire. Started in the late...

Event season rolled on in November, as INFINITY reached its climax, while the Ultimate imprint's CATACLYSM got under way. Meanwhile, ASTONISHING X-MEN was relaunched as AMAZING X-MEN, and the MARVEL KNIGHTS X-MEN and LONGSHOT SAVES THE MARVEL UNIVERSE minis kick off. Though DC had four books in the top five - BATMAN, HARLEY QUINN, SUPERMAN UNCHAINED and FOREVER EVIL - Marvel still edged them in their share of the North American direct market, leading by 34% to 32% in unit terms, and 30% to 29% in dollars. As has already been pointed out on The Beat, this means Marvel and DC's combined dollar share dips below 60% - something that hasn't happened in a decade.

So today, after decades of arguing and speculation and heartache and anger and perhaps even here and there a little joy, Miracleman #1 has...