Archie Comics characters and concepts have also appeared in numerous films, television programs, cartoons, and video games. In November 1939 (with a January 1940 cover date), Pep Comics #1 debuted with the Shield, the first USA patriotic comic book hero, created by writer and managing editor ...
Other original characters include the jungle goddess Cave Girl, drawn by Bob Powell, who also worked on their superhero title The Avenger. In late 1947, Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster collaborated once again with editor Vin Sullivan, on a new oddball hero book called Funnyman,...
Mike Baldwin's Cornered characters reflect the full spectrum of these reactions - all the while doing their very best to be taken seriou... By: Mike Baldwin Genre: . Syndicate: GoComics Crankshaft A former minor league baseball pitcher, the strip's namesake, Ed Crankshaft, was deeply ...
Between the weird infantilization of the characters’ appearances—especially Bernard in this issue, almost the point of grossness—and some weird drawing of costumes that don’t have movement (the capes are weirdly devoid of movement and it’s just bad), this is a book that is so hard to...
Disney, of course, has pushed the marketing of film and comics characters to the extreme. It is probable too that comics strips are the art form with the greatest variety of “cultural overflow,” affecting live-action and animated films, stage plays, video and computer games, advertising ...
The greatest comic-book characters in the canon have been debated and argued over for decades. The creations of Bon Kane, Bill Finger, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Stan Lee and co. undoubtedly form a might canon – in every sense.Empirehas delved into it and picked 50 super-powered specimens...
since none of the characters really exist in current DC continuity, but they do live on in reprints, so if the goal of this book is to more sell collected editions from the DC backlist than to move readers to current comics, this makes a lot of sense. The 3rd story reprints Super Sons...
Pride & Prejudice: A Babylit Board Bookby Jennifer Adams With vintage-looking, Regency-inspired illustrations and a charm that honors Jane Austen’s lovely style of writing, this whimsical ‘counting’ board book introduces little people to the characters and setting in one of my all-time favori...
Drujiniu’s art is solid, and Dalhouse’s colors give it a painted feel that’s well suited to the material. One panel gives us a glimpse of Drujiniu’s traditional style, though, which I’d like to see shine through a little more. Unfortunately, two characters in the book look dis...
Starmanand the like. It was literally the first time superhero characters from different stories got together and decided to hang out. They inspired the more famous Justice League that started in the 1960s and have kept coming back, for decades now. The latest JSA revivalis about to hit the...