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Author UNDERSTANDING SUPERHERO COMIC BOOKS. Host LEGO ART: SPIDER-MAN. In Russo Bros’ SLUGFEST, CNN, BBC, NPR, WSJ, New York Times & TODAY. CBH creator.

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#HeMan and the #MOTU Masters of the Universe came alive in #1987.
#HeMan and the #MOTU Masters of the Universe came alive in #1987. YouTube video by Comic Book Historians

#HeMan and the #MOTU Masters of the Universe came alive in #1987.
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12.03.2026 03:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Ted is a hilarious, raunchy show set in 1992, featuring some of the same cast as Seth MacFarlane’s other series, The Orville. The titular bear is also shown reading comic books; specifically Groo the Wanderer #1 (1982).

11.03.2026 03:16 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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08.03.2026 20:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I just finished watching #MadMen (2007–2015), which I enjoyed. It explores identity, creativity, and the cost of corporate success in the 1960s advertising world. Bert Cooper led me to watch what almost feels like a prequel: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, starring the same actor.

08.03.2026 20:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
#voiceactor #juneforay portrayed #auntmay in #spiderman and his amazing friends #1981.
#voiceactor #juneforay portrayed #auntmay in #spiderman and his amazing friends #1981. YouTube video by Comic Book Historians

#voiceactor #juneforay portrayed #auntmay in #spiderman and his amazing friends #1981.
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07.03.2026 19:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Spiderman amazing friends #voiceactors introduced a new generation to #marvel  #comicbooks in 1981.
#Spiderman amazing friends #voiceactors introduced a new generation to #marvel #comicbooks in 1981. YouTube video by Comic Book Historians

#Spiderman amazing friends #voiceactors introduced a new generation to #marvel #comicbooks in 1981.
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05.03.2026 04:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Mark of Heartbreak: Legends of the Dark Knight’s “Blades” By Anthony M. Caro Readers can learn a lot about Batman by looking at his rogues’ gallery of villains. The Joker shows what one bad day can do to a life, as happened to young Bruce Wayne after his parents’ murder in…

Tony Caro writes: We see many parallels between Bruce Wayne/Batman and the villains who represent the abyss he stares into. Killer Croc. The Riddler. Bane. Mr. Freeze. The Cavalier?

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27.02.2026 06:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Batman editor #DennyOneil talks #entertainment with #social #realism in 1995.
#Batman editor #DennyOneil talks #entertainment with #social #realism in 1995. YouTube video by Comic Book Historians

#Batman editor #DennyOneil talks #entertainment with #social #realism in 1995.
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27.02.2026 02:51 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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John Byrne and Chris Claremont based the Hellfire Club on these on screen personalities in 1980. Can you name them all?

26.02.2026 03:01 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I couldn’t get into Mad Men a few years ago. But maybe it’s because I’ve watched alot of old movies by now, I understand the references. I’m at the end of season 2 now and am enthralled. So far it feels like a man who lost himself into Madison Avenue society of the early 1960s and I’m digging it.

22.02.2026 20:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#DaveSim says #comicbook #dialogue is the key to #humanity in #Cerebus
#DaveSim says #comicbook #dialogue is the key to #humanity in #Cerebus YouTube video by Comic Book Historians

#DaveSim says #comicbook #dialogue is the key to #humanity in #Cerebus
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21.02.2026 21:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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21.02.2026 05:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I was watching Arthur (1981) starring Dudley Moore and noticed a recreation of the famous 1940 #Superman painting by H.J. Ward on the wall of his bedroom. Anyone know the story behind this?

21.02.2026 04:15 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
#WarnerBros #DCcomics #Film #Museum shows forty years of #Batman, Superman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman
#WarnerBros #DCcomics #Film #Museum shows forty years of #Batman, Superman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman YouTube video by Comic Book Historians

#WarnerBros #DCcomics #Film #Museum shows forty years of #Batman, Superman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman
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20.02.2026 04:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Even better!

20.02.2026 04:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#DaveSim talks developing #Cerebus over hundreds of #comicbook #issues
#DaveSim talks developing #Cerebus over hundreds of #comicbook #issues YouTube video by Comic Book Historians

#DaveSim talks developing #Cerebus over hundreds of #comicbook #issues
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19.02.2026 07:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Jackie Ormes was among the first African American women cartoonists. She created Torchy Brown for the Pittsburgh Courier (1937–1940), a strip syndicated in Black newspapers about a Mississippi teen singer at New York’s Cotton Club.

15.02.2026 02:06 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Captain America 136, 1971 has a mind-staggering splash page with Gene Colan pencils and Bill Everett inks. It really sucks both the reader and Captain America into the story. Who wrote this, Stan Lee or Artie Simek? Maybe Artie the letterer is trying to tell us something.

15.02.2026 02:04 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Does anyone remember these? November 1986 25th Anniversary Marvel covers. As a fifth grader, this was the official year that I was full steam ahead in #comics, and it was Classic X-Men and Dark Knight Returns that the comic kids in my class were talking about nonstop that year.

15.02.2026 02:04 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Don Heck said in an interview in 1990 published in TwoMorrows A Work of Art that although Jack Kirby designed the cover and the gray Iron Man amor, Heck himself designed the look of Tony Stark based off Errol Flynn during his creation published in Tales of Suspense 39, 1963.

15.02.2026 02:03 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Richard Eugene "Grasshopper" Green is thought to be the 1st African American underground comix artist who had work published in 60s fanzines like Alter Ego and Star Studded Comics. He reportedly wrote a letter to Jack Kirby in 1961 with art samples who replied back with kindness and drawing advice.

15.02.2026 02:03 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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1930s #Shadow Pulp Illustrator Edd Cartier drew action using a stark contrast of light and dark that inspired Golden/Silver Age creators like Jack Kirby, Mort Meskin and Carmine Infantino.

15.02.2026 02:01 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The #marvel action of the main hero on the cover withstanding large amounts of water current and staring the reader in the face added excitement on the stands in 1975 and 1987.

15.02.2026 01:03 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Superman’s #MargotKidder portrayed #Dccomics #LoisLane as an extension of herself in #1980.
#Superman’s #MargotKidder portrayed #Dccomics #LoisLane as an extension of herself in #1980. YouTube video by Comic Book Historians

#Superman’s #MargotKidder portrayed #Dccomics #LoisLane as an extension of herself in #1980.
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14.02.2026 19:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#warnerbros #museum #tour #walkthewalk in #2026 shows sights from over a hundred years of filmmaking
#warnerbros #museum #tour #walkthewalk in #2026 shows sights from over a hundred years of filmmaking YouTube video by Comic Book Historians

#warnerbros #museum #tour #walkthewalk in #2026 shows sights from over a hundred years of filmmaking
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13.02.2026 04:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#StanLee celebrated #Marvel #comics 25th #anniversary in #1986.
#StanLee celebrated #Marvel #comics 25th #anniversary in #1986. YouTube video by Comic Book Historians

#StanLee celebrated #Marvel #comics 25th #anniversary in #1986.
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04.02.2026 04:52 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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If there was a comic version of The Sunshine Boys that I’d like to see it’d be the fun back and forths I had today with Howard Chaykin and Al Milgrom. There was comic talk too, but the movie and broadway banter was too much fun.

01.02.2026 01:26 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#imagecomics #ToddMcFarlane started a #Toy #company in the #1990s after comics went bust.
#imagecomics #ToddMcFarlane started a #Toy #company in the #1990s after comics went bust. YouTube video by Comic Book Historians

#imagecomics #ToddMcFarlane started a #Toy #company in the #1990s after comics went bust.
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31.01.2026 19:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Deadpool #Holiday Special at #Disney California Adventure at #Avengers Campus 2025 with #Wolverine!
#Deadpool #Holiday Special at #Disney California Adventure at #Avengers Campus 2025 with #Wolverine! YouTube video by Comic Book Historians

#Deadpool #Holiday Special at #Disney California Adventure at #Avengers Campus 2025 with #Wolverine!
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31.01.2026 03:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Marvel’s Wonder Man on Disney Plus is a fun L.A. Comedy that spoofs Hollywood in all the right ways with the occasional super power. The situational back & forth between Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Ben Kingsley makes for a hilarious eight episodes and a fun way to start 2026. #doorman

29.01.2026 04:55 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1