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  • Marvel Comics is rife with villains who harness the power of magic or technological prowess. But few, if any, have a mastery of both...

  • The Muppets Noir #1

    Kermie is private detective Flip Minnow who has just been hired by Dolores Crustworth, the queen of pies, to find her missing niece, Meringue (aka Miss Piggy). Flip’s investigation takes him to the police station where Officer O’Bear puts him on the path to find a Mister Gonzini, who may know something about Meringue’s whereabouts.  

  • 1776 #4

    Morgan Le Fay has gone to the year 1776 to help British forces defeat the Continental Army and quash the American revolution. Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, and Clea have traveled back in time to stop her and set history back on course.

  • Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox #4

    The Doctor came to the floating prison Panoptopolis with one goal: to save his traveling companion Belinda Chandra from the lunatic warden that is holding her against her will. The Doctor embarked on a Dante’s Inferno style odyssey through the prison, alongside four prisoners who were just transferred to the facility.

  • RETRO REVIEW: Star Raiders (DC Graphic Novel #1)

    In the early days of both licensed comics based on video games and the growing use of original graphic novels, 1983’s Star Raiders (DC Graphic Novel #1) is fairly unique in that it is both animals at once. Following DC’s first Atari Force series and preceding its second one, this European album format (a 64-page 8-1/4” x 11” softcover) is solidly entertaining and rises well above many later attempts to bring story development and strong characters to early video games.

  • RETRO REVIEW: Wally Wood’s T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #1

    In 1984, David Singer’s Deluxe Comics launched Wally Wood’s T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents. Printed on nice paper and aimed clearly at the burgeoning comic book specialty market, Singer and company attempted to replicate the caliber of Tower Comics’ all-star line-up with one of their own.

  • Crownsville #4

    Journalist Paul Blair and Detective Michael Simms have teamed up to investigate the apparent suicide of a security guard at the defunct Crownsville State Hospital. What they soon discovered was a decaying facility that clearly contains ghosts from the past.

  • At long last, The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #55 has finally arrived in comic shops...

  • Quinn’s February 24 Fine & Decorative Arts auction features American, European, Asian and Modern arts, primarily from northern Virginia...

  • Through his illustrated novels and comic strips, Burne Hogarth brought the swinging muscular hero Tarzan to new heights...