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Comic Books and American Cultural History: An Anthology

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American Comics: A History – W. W. Norton & Company, November 16, 2021, 592 pages

The Silver Age of DC Comics – TASCHEN 396 Pages

Batman: The World

Amazon – One-Punch Man Volume 23

Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide Volume 51

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Comic Book Movie Money May 17, 2022 numbers

Films playing worldwide

Doctor Strange II: Madness of the Multiverse at $689,876,495 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $200 million].

Morbius at $163,002,384 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $75 million].

The Batman at $768,442,517 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $180 million].

The Northman at $58,410,752 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $90 million].

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 at $355,304,271 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $110 million].

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore at $378,778,136 worldwide [Production budget reported at $200 million].

Compare with recent films:

Spider-Man No Way Home ended with $1,892,667,830 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $200 million].

Dune Buggy ended with $400,668,094 worldwide [Production budget reported at $160 million].

Ghostbusters: Afterlife ended with $197,360,575 worldwide [Production budget estimate at $75 million],

Eternals ended with $402,053,696 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $200 million].

Venom Let Them Eat Cabbage ended with $502,050,366 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $110 million].

James Bomb I Feel Like Dyin' ended at $774,153,007 worldwide [Production budget estimate at $250 million plus $100 million in promo marketing]

Data from BoxOfficeMojo and production budget information from Wikipedia.

Doc Strange Reviews

"Reasonably entertaining" movie – Times Standard

"Its rip-roaring opening owes more to “Star Wars” or “Raiders of the Lost Ark” than any Marvel jam" – Indystar

"Weirder, scarier, messier" sequel – Republican American

"Rave Reviews" for Elizabeth Olsen in the Multiverse of Madness – The Blast

Sam Raimi gives Marvel a "fresh scary vision" – ABC News

"Doctor Strange II is testing the "limits of fans and the MCU" – Digital Journal

Someone is selling a complete run of Conan The Barbarian, along with Annuals and Giant Size runs, on eBay for $4700

Morbius movie reviews

We like Jared Leto but Morbius 'falls flat' – ABC News

"Shameless corporate desperation" – Yahoo News

One star rating - "ludicrously pointless Jekyll and Hyde vampire-monster yarn" – UK Guardian

"It's better than Venom!" – CNN

Despite the rotten reviews Morbius could have $50 million opening – Indie Wire

"Morbius is lifeless" – MSN News

NEWS

"The numbers at DC are terrifying"

"There's been a lot of speculation about the health of DC, but nothing says 'you're screwed" like this... the top fifty DC titles, 48 of them are Batman books. It is "The Batman Company," just forget the rest. You're now at the place if DC didn't publish anything but Batman, their financial picture would not look much different... no part of that is good news."

The picture forming is one that has been criticized for ...maybe a decade, that only Batman can move month-to-month copies for DC, and all the new directions DC explores to replace the old fanbase with a new one hasn't worked.

The Origin of the Superman-Batman Team - review of World's Finest #94, May-June 1958, art by Dick Sprang

Spider-Man rules the 2021-2022 Box Office list

The year of 2021 started off in a mess, in the sense of box office numbers, with many a person predicting that the age of in-theater movie-watching could be drawing to a close in America, clubbed to death by two indomitable opponents: a worldwide pandemic and the rise of streaming TV.

Overview: Top Grossing films of 2021