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Green Lantern
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Fascinating Facts About Green Lantern

Mickey Yarber

From the smoky pages of 1940s pulp to the cosmic corridors of the DC Universe, Green Lantern has worn many faces, and each one tells a story of courage, imagination, and intergalactic justice. Whether you CONTINUE READING…

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Enter Now: The Age Of Apocalypse! Part 1

David Inguagiato

An X-Men Age Of Apocalypse retrospective. Reliving X-Men Alpha #1 Age of Apocalypse is an X-Men crossover event that ran from February 1995 to June 1995 throughout various newly named X-Men titles. The regular ongoing CONTINUE READING…

Batman Knightfall
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Knightfall: The Breaking and Rebuilding of Batman

Mickey Yarber

In the early 1990s, DC Comics launched one of the most ambitious and transformative comic book story arcs in Batman’s history: Knightfall. Spanning multiple titles and over a year of publication (1993–1994), the epic saga CONTINUE READING…

Archie Comics Movie
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An Archie Comics Movie Is In the Works at Universal

Mickey Yarber

A live-action Archie Comics movie is on the way! The TV take of Archie Comics, Riverdale, spanned 137 episodes on the CW, and ran from 2017-2023, but Universal Pictures believes there are more Archie stories to tell on the CONTINUE READING…

Archie Comics Digest Halloween Special
Comic Books

Retro Spooky Fun Is On the Way In the Archie Comics Digest Halloween Special

The Retro Network

Halloween is just around the corner, and as such, we want to take a moment to tell you about an upcoming release packed with thrills, chills and laughs: The ARCHIE COMICS DIGEST HALLOWEEN SPECIAL! Featuring work CONTINUE READING…

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X-Men: It’s all in the Cards

David Inguagiato

The X-Men Series One Trading Card Set Is Instant Nostalgia in Every Pack If you grew up in the 80s or 90s chances are at some point in your childhood you owned trading cards. In CONTINUE READING…

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The Age of Apocalypse: An Apocalyptic Redesign

David Inguagiato

30 Years Of The X-Men’s Age Of Apocalypse Character Designs This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Epic X-Men crossover The Age of Apocalypse.  AOA is a look at the how the Marvel’s mutant world would CONTINUE READING…

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DC Comics Cosmic Card Catharsis

Kevin Decent

In the far off year of 1992, trading cards were very popular. Many of us can trace our love of pop culture card sets to the baseball card boom of the 1980s. Sure, it was CONTINUE READING…

Article

15 Weirdest Dick Tracy Movie Merchandise Items

Adam Pope

Dick Tracy celebrates its 30th anniversary this year as the blockbuster to beat in the summer of 1990. Featuring an all star cast including Warren Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino and more, this crime-smashing action film CONTINUE READING…

Wonder Woman
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TV Treasures: Wonder Woman

The Retro Network

Based on Charles Moulton’s 1940’s comic superhero, Wonder Woman first hit the live-action airwaves in a 1974 made-for-TV movie, starring Cathy Lee Crosby as the great one and Ricardo Montalban as her enemy. Another TV CONTINUE READING…

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
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Saturday Morning Memories: Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends

Mickey Yarber

Marvel Comics’ famed webslinger returned to Saturday morning in 1981 with a pair of new companions. In this incarnation, Peter Parker was a college student at Empire State University, boarding with his Aunt May. While CONTINUE READING…

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Caped Crusader Classics: Essential Batman Stories for All Readers

Pitfall Gary

Batman, the Caped Crusader is one of my favorite superheroes of all time. He fluctuates between the number one and number two spot with Wolverine depending on my mood. If you told me I could CONTINUE READING…

Article

Arcade All-Stars: X-Men Arcade Game

Mickey Yarber

Backed by a techno theme song, Marvel Comics’ band of misunderstood mutant superheroes stormed into arcades in 1992. Konami had built a mini-franchise using licensed characters in side-scrolling fighting games—Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Simpsons—and with CONTINUE READING…

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My Comic Book Origin Story

Mickey Yarber

Ever since I was young, I’ve enjoyed comic books.  Although I’ve never been a hardcore comics buyer or reader, I have dabbled in them from time to time, and my collection has expanded and retracted CONTINUE READING…

Article

Looking Back at the WildC.A.T.s Cartoon

Kevin Decent

WildC.A.T.s is a half-hour animated television series based on the comics series of the same name. CONTINUE READING…

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