Archive Page 2209

September 2024

Star Wars script that was owned by Harrison Ford, with scenes subsequently cut from the original film, found in rental home and then sold for $13K

(Feb 2024) Story at Washington Post

The script, dated March 15, 1976, and titled “The Adventures of Luke Starkiller,” sold to an Austrian collector for about $13,600 during a live-streamed auction on Saturday. The seller owned the home that Ford had rented while working on the film..."

Tucker Stone, former Editor of The Comics Journal, now the Executive Director of Communications & Marketing at Fantagraphics

Story at Bleeding Cool

Gary Groth from the article: Fantagraphics mandate... making the world safe for art comics

Deadpool and Wolverine at $1,219,161,573 worldwide and expanding theater release footprint – The Numbers

Leonard Riggio, founder of Barnes and Noble, has died – NY Times

A lot of comics and collections sold in B&N over the years.

DC "Style Guide" goes public – Washington Post

The “DC Comics Style Guide,” created in 1982 and updated periodically throughout the decade, streamlined how DC’s characters appeared on merchandise. The three-ring binder containing nearly 200 pages of color and black-and-white artwork destined for T-shirts and lunchboxes was a disposable trade product never meant for public consumption."

9.6 Fantastic Four #1 going to auction – MSN New York Post

Class war and ethical billionaires in Detective Comics #1088 – Bleedingcool

Universal Monsters Frankenstein #1 - Image Comics - by Michael Walsh

Story at Image Comics

Review of Frankenstein #1 at Comics Beat

Theatre play version of Batman executive producer Michael Uslan memoir "The Boy Who Loved Batman" – MSN Hollywood Reporter

Interview about Legacy of Kain with Joshua Viola, Brent Friedman and Daniel Cabuco

Story at Comicsbeat

Scottie Young variant cover - What if... Donald Duck became Wolverine?

Amazon What If...? Donald Duck became Woverine

A photograph, from the April 1941 issues of Showmen's Trade Review, showing kids in Danbury Connecticut receiving free comic books as a promotion for the 'Adventures of Captain Marvel' movie serial. #Shazam pic.twitter.com/uTlLIOWMgS

— Darrell Epp (@DarrellEpp) August 28, 2024

The million-dollar revival of Marvel

Story at UK Finance Yahoo

Preview images of the Jim Lee Absolute Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman – Bleedingcool

New 163-Page FTC Regulation impacts internet review factories – Bounding into Comics

FTC has banned fake reviews and testimonials in a 163 page “final rule” regulation set for publication..."

Businesses also cannot have an "insider" create reviews, create company-owned websites that present themselves as hosting independent reviews, or suppress genuine reviews (such as via legal threats, intimidation, libel, or slander)..."

Is Disney's Acolyte TV show to get memory-holed? – Kotaku

Some say the show cost $180 million to make but is going to follow Disney's "Willow" TV show into force obscurity.

New comic book publishing company coming – Comicsbeat

...where [did] former Boom president Filip Sablik and former IDW editor in chief Jamie Rich ... end up…..and now we know, sort of. It’s an unnamed comics publishing start up led by Scott Pilgrim producer Eric Gitter as President. Sablik will be Publisher, Rich, EIC, and artist Jeremy Haun rounds out the venture as creative director..."

First appearance of Dr. Doom could go for $10K - CGC 4 grading – Talker

Fantastic Four #5 going up for auction at UK Ewbanks Auctions - Catalog Page with this issue and other comics for the August 21st auction.

Turns out DC going back to Wednesday releases has hurt sales – Bleedingcool

The changing fortunes of Taiwanese comic books – Taiwan News

Captain America underwear, with Iron Man, Hulk and Black Panther - see photo enlarged

Creature Commando variant covers – Comicbookmovie

Deadpool and Wolverine have just taken away the R-rated earnings record from the 2019 Joker – Variety MSN.

A pair of comic book restorers sued Certified Guaranty Company for defamation .... and won – Philadelphia Inquirer

...after an eight-year legal battle, a Philadelphia jury last month sided with the Meyerses, ordering the comic book evaluating giant to pay the couple $10 million, and rendering a verdict likely to reverberate throughout the hobby industry..."

Comic book business hiring update – Bleedingcool

Kraven the Hunter trailer preview

Here come six more Disney superhero movies – Business Insider

Captain America: Brave New World is coming February 14, 2025 and then two Avengers sequels, then Fantastic Four on July 25, 2025 . Thunderbolts is due May 2, 2025, then on November 7, 2025 Blade. (Concerning Blade "...Mia Goth is the only other actor still attached to the film after the script underwent multiple changes over the last three years. The movie currently has no director after Bassam Tariq left in 2022 and Yann Demange dropped out in June.")

Deadpool and Wolverine at $1,034,982,622 worldwide – The Numbers

Deadpool and Wolverine promotion on floor of Central Virginia grocery store - click photo to enlarge

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Original page August 30, 2024