Web of Spider-Man
Sixteen-year-old Miles Morales always thought he came from bad blood. Both his father and his uncle were hoodlums when they were his age, and now his younger cousin was locked up in prison. Miles was...
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In her latest prose adventure from 2020, Vampirella is in Hong Kong to infiltrate some kind of “crazy-ass” cult. She doesn’t know anyone personally in South China, but her reputation precedes her....
View ArticleLife On the D-List
It’s no secret. Everybody knows who’s on top of the superhero A-list. There’s Superman, Batman and Captain America, and all the Avengers and everyone on the Justice League roster. When Darkseid and...
View ArticleThe Bogus Man
At best, Nikie Gordon was a C-level actress in a string of B-level films. With her career in the crapper, no one in the industry was surprised when she disappeared in 1974 and became a Hollywood...
View ArticleHot for Teacher
Certainly there were happy people living in Smallville. Lionel Luthor, for example. He owned most of the town. Why wouldn’t he be happy? And Jonathan and Martha Kent. They were modest people who...
View ArticleBattle Bots
Mazinger Z (1972), Getter Robo (1974), Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) and Appleseed (1985) were some of the seminal manga titles that introduced giant robots to Japan and the rest of the world. Not...
View ArticleThe Man From T.E.R.R.A.
It’s up to Hannibal Fortune to save the world from the Mind Muddler. Sometimes called the Happiness Machine (or simply a television), it is a device that can reduce the world’s population to the level...
View ArticleThe Monster Maker
The Masked Avenger and Chen Chainsaw were the two greatest stars of professional wrestling. Inside the square circle, they were fierce competitors, but outside of the ring they fought side-by-side...
View ArticleMarvel Zombies
Back in the day, they were called Marvel Zombies—those comic book zealots who were hopelessly devoted to Marvel Comics. No Ralph Dibny for them. No Darkseid, no Swamp Thing and no Batman either. It...
View ArticleThe Master of Monsters
There are lots of ways people become monsters. They can be bitten, sucked, born, reborn, reanimated and exposed to toxic sludge—the list of possibilities goes on and on. Dicky Illes, a small town...
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