While he’s certainly more widely known for co-creating Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, or even for his work on other Marvel, DC, and even Charlton titles, Steve Ditko’s creator-owned Mr. A earned him an additional special place in the hearts of his fellow artists.
As with the previous two issues of this remastered edition of Rob Liefeld’s original Youngblood series, the material benefits from the impressive format and readers benefit from the reasonable cover price.
As a comics publisher, Charlton was something of an also-ran, but they certainly had their moments. In addition to some solid war comics and intriguing superhero offerings, they also had this post-apocalyptic tale from 1975.
Back in the days when each character didn’t always have their own title – or six of them – series like Marvel Two-in-One and Marvel Team-Up often brought together top selling icons, but they also occasionally served to introduce lesser known characters to the larger audiences of The Thing and Spider-Man, respectively.
In 1987 Mike Baron, the co-creator of Nexus, teamed up with artist Mitch O’Connell for the original graphic novel The World of Ginger Fox...
Month in and month out, Geiger continues to be one of the – if not the single best – regular comic books on the market. The quality of all the material coming out from Geoff Johns and company’s Ghost Machine Productions is laudable, but there’s something special about this series. Inventive, intriguing, and packed with twists and turns, it’s tightly written by Johns and beautifully illustrated by Gary Frank.
Like Iron Fist, though, Power Man was a title with a small but loyal following. It enjoyed a run of 32 more issues, good but not enough of one to keep it going, at least not on its own. So following Power Man #49 (February 1977), another issue guest starring Iron Fist, the April 1977 issue arrived as Power Man and Iron Fist #50.
Writer-artist Howard Chaykin’s adaptation of John Benteen’s 1976 western novel Fargo is the first of a proposed series, and if they all have the energy and spirit of this one, it’s going to be a very fun ride.
One of the most clichéd phrases in the history of clichéd phrases is “It doesn’t get any better than this,” but serious, it really doesn’t get much better than Walter Simonson’s cover for Batman #366
Decades before the full force of female-centric characters hit the Big Two, Marvel debuted their revamped Marvel Preview magazine...
