Tag: Superman
The Legal View: Siegel Court Issues Final Judgments
The Superman and Superboy lawsuits are officially over, pending appeal.After an obligatory mop-up opinion whose outcome & reasoning was foreshadowed in my previous post,...
Studio Coffee Run: Amazing Spider-Man 2, Iron Man 3, X-Men, Man of Steel, Thor...
Darlings, gather your coffee, cross your legs, and sit on the floor as you read about what's been happening in the comic-book movie world...
On the Scene: WonderCon 2013, ‘What Makes an Icon?” with Nocenti, De Matteis, Mahnke,...
A panel on Friday, March 29th, the first day of programming at WonderCon brought together a rather iconic cast to discuss “iconic characters” and...
Review: Action Comics, the Grant Morrison Edition
Grant Morrison's run on Action Comics has been met with both high praise and no small measure of bewilderment. But this is a legendary...
Review: It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane…It’s Superman
I saw the final night of the ENCORE! concert staging of the Adams/Strouse Superman musical last night and I truly wish I had seen...
On the Scene: Celebrating Golden Age Comics at Columbia University
On January 23rd, Columbia University Library acquired a double-bill of Golden Age related comics materials, including the research materials Larry Tye compiled to write...
Chris Sprouse Steps Away from Orson Scott Card’s Superman Story
Artist Chris Sprouse, who would have been drawing controversial writer Orson Scott Card's contribution to the upcoming Superman anthology Adventures of Superman, has stepped...
Review: The Death of Superman
Nowadays we think of it as the pre-mullet era of Superman, but at the time The Death of Superman was an incredibly big idea...
Dallas Retailer Leads Way in Active Boycott of Orson Scott Card’s Superman Comic UPDATE...
There's been controvery over the past few days following DC's decision to hire Orson Scott Card, a pioneer in contemporary homophobia, as one of...
Poisoned Chalice Part 1: From the Start of Superman to the End of Captain...
Superman, co-created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, first appeared in Action Comics #1 in June 1938, published by Detective Comics Inc, a fore-runner of National Periodical Publications and DC Comics. Virtually overnight it became a huge seller, and is running to this day, with uninterrupted publication for well over seventy years. A vast amount has been written over the years on the history of Superman, and by people substantially more qualified than I, but one claim, that Superman was based on the character of Hugo Danner, from Philip Wylie’s novel Gladiator, (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1930), has some relevance to the larger story of Marvelman and, although I decided that it might be too far back to start this series of articles, if you’re interested in reading what I have to say about it, you should go read this article, and then meet us back here. 
DC moves to end Superman, Superboy lawsuits
Yesterday's summary judgment filings confirm that settlement talks have been ongoing--and the Siegel side is in disarray.The motion filed yesterday was as expected as...
