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Last Update: October 15, 2024


DC Comics presenting new DC Go! system for mobile devicesMSN Screenrant


Joker II losing $200 million?MSN Variety


Absolute Batman #1 leads in best selling comicsBleeding Cool


Sales ranking the top 50 titles of Septembericv2


Next Godzilla film to be R-rated?Bounding into Comics


Dan Buckley talks about how digital comics are doing at MarvelHollywood Reporter

The Infinity Comics have been a very significant for Marvel Unlimited, because those launch exclusively on that platform. They also provide slightly different demographic reaches," says Dan Buckley, president, Marvel Comics and Franchise. He notes the mix of readers is closer to fifty-fifty male/female, vs. the print product, which still skews more male. According to the company, Marvel Unlimited has enjoyed strong growth for the past three years after it launched Infinity Comics, with paid subs up 30 percent. Marvel does not disclose how many people pay for the $9.99 a month service...."

Stand out remark in this is that in the age of streaming and subscriptions, nobody wants to reveal real numbers: "Marvel does not disclose how many people pay for the service."

Older story, Dan Buckley named el presidente of Marvel Entertainment - Hollywood Reporter 2017


Ill Fated Warner Bros Musical

Ill Fated Warner Bros Musical, Joker II

Inside the ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Debacle: Todd Phillips ‘Wanted Nothing to Do’ With DC on the $200 Million MisfireVariety

Now that the dust has settled on the sequel’s disastrous opening weekend, plenty of soul-searching is taking place on the Burbank lot. The overarching question being asked is: Why spend $200 million to make — and nearly $100 million to market — a tentpole that ignores the DC fanbase? And "ignores" may be putting it mildly. As a Rolling Stone review of the film succinctly put it: "‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Has a Message for Fans: Go F-ck Yourselves."


Another story on the "every issue of DC Comics published " collection going to auction:

"One Woman’s Complete DC Comics Collection, Amassed Over 50 Years, Now Up for Sale Christine Farrell's enviable collection could fetch hundreds of thousands at auction."Artnet


A review of the Chris Ware "La prospettiva della memoria" at the PAFF! International Museum of Comic Art in Italy

Review at The Comics Journal

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Hosted in a museum that is an integral part of a small city, the exhibition was precisely focused on bringing Ware’s work to an average visitor (during my visit I saw both foreign tourists and locals) while at the same time providing thorough research on the artist's work, one that would satisfy those who know his work well and even those who had previously seen his art in person...."


Review of Absolute Batman #1Batman News

Snyder takes an almost glee in subverting reader expectations, including multiple bait-and-switches based on established tropes of Batman comics. Right away in the story’s opening we’re presented with a grizzled man on a motorcycle returning to Gotham, complete with noir-esque narration about how far his city has fallen. It mirrors the famous opening of Batman: Year One in many ways, priming the reader to see Bruce take off the helmet and get to work as this badass special forces operative. But it’s not Bruce, it’s Alfred. Far from the loyal, sophisticated manservant audiences have come to know, this contract mercenary is even initially put in an antagonistic role with Batman...."

" Batman now grows up as a childhood friend of Catwoman, Riddler, Two-Face, Penguin, and Killer Crock"Comic Book

"...a dramatic reinvention of the Bat-mythos Potentially the biggest release of the year from DC Comics" Comics Beat

DC Comics changes Bruce Wayne's inspiration from a flying bat to a flying pair of trousers being carried by a bat


Joker Folie á Deux "A Shattering Disappointment"Yahoo

Joker II at $117,292,724 worldwide (original hoped-for box office for domestic was $100 million all by itself)The Numbers – "word of mouth" on this film is pretty poor.


Eight horror comics for HalloweenNew York Times


Batman Resurrection book comingMSN CBR

Tim Burton's iconic 1989 Batman film will soon get a prose sequel by New York Times bestselling author John Jackson Miller. The new story takes place after the events of Burton's film and is part of a duology...."


Batman the Killing Joker featuring The Joker

Recap of "Harvey Kurtzman Week"The Comics Journal


Goya's The Bandit Maragato series

Comic book stories of 1806: this oil painted sequential story by Francisco Goya [below] tells how Fray Pedro defeated the bandit Maragato.

Goya - Sequential art - Friar Pedro defeats the bandit El Maragato - frame 1

Maragato points a gun
El Maragato amenaza con su fusil a fray Pedro de Zaldivia

Goya - Sequential art - Friar Pedro defeats the bandit El Maragato - frame 2

Friar Pedro attempts to disarm Maragato

Goya - Sequential art - Friar Pedro defeats the bandit El Maragato - frame 3

Friar Pedro fights Maragato

Goya - Sequential art - Friar Pedro defeats the bandit El Maragato - frame 4

Friar Pedro wrests the gun from Maragato
Fray Pedro arrebata el fusil al Maragato

Goya - Sequential art - Friar Pedro defeats the bandit El Maragato - frame 5

Friar Pedro fires at Maragato
Fray Pedro dispara contra el Maragato

Goya - Sequential art - Friar Pedro defeats the bandit El Maragato - frame 6

Friar Pedro ties up Maragato
Fray Pedro ata el Maragato


Rare set of comics coming to auction, from a private collection that includes every single issue of DC comics ever published

Story at Bleedingcool

...Farrell had about 8,000 comics "crammed into cartons stacked to the ceiling in an upstairs bedroom." By the time she died in April of 2024, her collection had grown exponentially. In her basement vault and scattered throughout her house, Farrell left behind tens of thousands of books, among them every single one available DC Comics had ever published, beginning with 1935's New Fun Comics No. 1 and including 1940's Double Action Comics #2, of which there are only seven copies said to have survived.

Farrell's collecting began in 1970 and was "completed" it in 2007 the year she had obtained at least one copy of every available comic DC had ever published. DC used Farrell's collection (with her permission, though she asked to receive no credit) for certain books when they couldn't find their own copies in order to make reprints.

The Heritage Auctions page


‘Joker: Folie À Deux’ Opening Weekend May Be 2024 Box Office Punch-Line

Story at Forbes

Joker II worldwide box office at $121,100,000The Numbers

Warner Bros. spending spree for ‘Joker 2’ with budget going to $200 Million, Lady Gaga’s $12 Million PaydayVariety [Feb 2024]



DC's "All-In" arrives with DC All In Special #1 by Scott Snyder & Wes Craig CBR MSN News


Los Angeles Stan Lee house going on saleRaleigh News and Observer


Joker II getting trashed brutally by critics and fans alike

How the Joker 2 "pisses me off" and makes "think less of the original film"MSN Cinemablend

"Congratulations, Hollywood, you’ve ruined the Joker for good" MSN Digital Trend

Just How Bad Does It Look For ‘Joker 2’? Critical Pans And Worsening Box Office Predictions Spell DoomForbes

'The Dark Knight' connection in 'Joker: Folie à Deux' is laughably badMashable

Joker II: Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga Sing a Duet That's Way Out of TuneMSN People Magazine

Joker sequel is bleak and boringBoston Herald

Joker sequel doesn’t know why it existsComics Beat


The big comic book releases of October

Story at IGN


Batman Last Halloween from Jeph Loeb and Eduardo RissoSuperherohype


The James Gunn Superman is more Star Wars than it is Marvel movies, the "opposite of the DCEU"Bounding into Comics


Marvel And DC had jointly trademarked the term "Super Hero" in 1979 - now their claim is cancelledSomething

According to Reuters, the U.S. Patent And Trademark Office has enforced the cancellation in response to a challenge from Superbabies Limited. The company that produces a series of Superbabies comics about superhero babies posited that “Super Hero”, “Superhero” or “Super-hero” are generic terms that shouldn’t be subjected to exclusivity...."


Bane and Deathstroke movie coming?

Story at AV Club


"The Madcap History of Mad Magazine"Smithsonian Magazine


Harvey Kurtzman Week at The Comics JournalThe Comics Journal

This Thursday, Oct. 3, marks the 100th birthday of Harvey Kurtzman, the genius behind Two-Fisted Tales, Frontline Combat, Mad, Trump, Humbug, Help! and, yes, even Little Annie Fanny.

Kurtzman’s work changed the shape of American humor with his take on the truth. Advertising is lying to you, Hollywood is lying to you, the government is definitely lying to you- but if you find out what’s not true, therein lies the joke. This style of gag informed the themes of the bulk of our comedy culture, ranging from Saturday Night Live to The Simpsons to Strangers With Candy.


The coming DC comics for DecemberComicsbeat


A collection of film adverts for TV promoting comics and magazines like the Dandy, Bunty and Jackie discovered in a building Dundee, UK, owned by publisher DC ThomsonBBC News



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