Archive Page 2211
October 2024
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.
‘Joker: Folie À Deux’ Opening Weekend May Be 2024 Box Office Punch-Line
Story at Forbes
Joker II worldwide box office at $121,100,000 – The Numbers
Warner Bros. spending spree for ‘Joker 2’ with budget going to $200 Million, Lady Gaga’s $12 Million Payday – Variety [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 sale – Raleigh 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 Doom – Forbes
'The Dark Knight' connection in 'Joker: Folie à Deux' is laughably bad – Mashable
Joker II: Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga Sing a Duet That's Way Out of Tune – MSN People Magazine
Joker sequel is bleak and boring – Boston Herald
Joker sequel doesn’t know why it exists – Comics Beat
The big comic book releases of October
Story at IGN
Batman Last Halloween from Jeph Loeb and Eduardo Risso – Superherohype
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 cancelled – Something
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 Journal – The 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 December – Comicsbeat
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 Thomson – BBC News
Alex Nino 1973
A combination of factors made Alex Nino not only one of DC Comics best stylists during the 1970s, but also one of the most unusual. The vaguely-drug influenced fashion of the time allowed for Nino's distortion effects, and well-matched to the list of DC's "mystery" books which featured a cliche' assortment of vampires, werewolves, and swamp monsters, but also "I'm going crazy" stories that required the artist to make the physical world look like how the suffering protagonist saw it for a sequence of 6, 8, or 12 pages. At this, Nino seemed to have the freedom to create an alternative reality, one that was supposed to represent lunacy, from Nino it was a well-designed lunacy with a touch of humor.
International Comic Book Artist Alex Nino: Veteran comic book artist from the Philippines. His art has appeared in DC Comics, Marvel, Warren, Dark Horse and Heavy Metal magazine (and in various comic books of the Philippines). With an easy to recognize style, Nino is a favorite among professional artists and in Bronze era fans, too. His design work has also appeared in films, including Disney's Atlantis Lost Empire (2001).
"The Madcap History of Mad Magazine" – Smithsonian Magazine
In March 1976, a great American portrait debuted to an adoring public. It was a bicentennial appreciation of George Washington … of a sort. Inspired by The Athenaeum Portrait, Gilbert Stuart’s 1796 painting featured on the one-dollar bill, this rendering of the first president featured one distinction. The original showed Washington with swollen, tightly closed lips due to a new set of ill-fitting dentures, while the 1976 version had a gap-toothed smirk instantly recognizable to America’s middle school reprobates. Equally recognizable was the blank stare that those same kids knew evoked the iconic question: "What, Me Worry?"
The exhibit What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine at the Norman Rockwell Museum – June 8, 2024 through October 27, 2024
There's a 2-Day online ZOOM symposium being presented from the museum – The Usual Gang of Idiots and Other Suspects: MAD Magazine and American Humor Online Symposium – Zoom Webinar Friday, October 18 from 6pm to 8pm Saturday, October 19 from 10am to 3:30pm – Price: Norman Rockwell Museum Members: $25 Non-Members: $35 College Students: $10
How unrelated events can impact comic resell values and provoke Golden Age comics to go to auction – Bleedingcool
The retirement of the Time Warp comic book shop – Broomfield Enterprise
How a beloved Boulder business survived decades of changes, burglars and Amazon"
Most comic book readers start under the age of ten
Story at South Florida Reporter
Image's Transformers #13 sells 100k copies to comic shops – Bleedingcool
Dead again
Preview-Review: Wolverine: Revenge #2 – MSN Screenrant
The most "collectible" Batman comics – CBR MSN
...things like "comic book price guides" are basically things of the past, as the great equalizer in terms of "price guides" is the online auction site, eBay, which serves as the best price guide around, as it shows you precisely what people ARE paying for comic books in question... Sonja Grunfeld, an account executive at Edelman, recently told CBR about some fascinating facts about how popular Batman comic books have been on eBay recently. She noted that global users searched for Batman items over 4,000 times per hour during the first half of 2024! That's pretty crazy. She added that sales for issues like Batman 428 increasing nearly 140% and Batman 251 by 30% in 2023 compared to the year prior, on eBay globally."
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.
Maragato points a gun
El Maragato amenaza con su fusil a fray Pedro de Zaldivia
Friar Pedro attempts to disarm Maragato
Friar Pedro fights Maragato
Friar Pedro wrests the gun from Maragato
Fray Pedro arrebata el fusil al Maragato
Friar Pedro fires at Maragato
Fray Pedro dispara contra el Maragato
Friar Pedro ties up Maragato
Fray Pedro ata el Maragato
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Original page October 11, 2024 | Updated October 18, 2024