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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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Original Page November 10, 2021

Comic Book Movie Money Aug 14, 2022 numbers

Films playing worldwide

Bullet Train at $114,483,000 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $90 million].

DC League of Super-Pets at $109,747,000 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $90 million].

Thor: Love and Thunder at $720,495,211 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $250 million].

Top Gun II Maverick at $1,378,022,000 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $152 million].

Elvis at $261,491,000 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $85 million].

Jurassic World: Dominion at $974,522,000 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $185 million].

Lightyear at $224,668,633 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $200 million].

Everything Everywhere All at Once at $97,267,284 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $25 million].

Compare with recent films:

Doctor Strange II: Madness of the Multiverse ended with $954,863,075 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $200 million].

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ended with $401,872,904 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $110 million].

Morbius ended with $163,865,530 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $75 million].

Spider-Man No Way Home ended with $1,901,231,491 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $200 million].

The Northman ended with $68,544,035 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $90 million].

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledork ended with $405,161,334 worldwide [Production budget reported at $200 million].

The Batman ended with $770,345,583 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $180 million].

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

Data from BoxOfficeMojo and production budget information from Wikipedia.

DC League of Super-Pets

Reviews:

"A Dog's Dinner" – UK Guardian

"Absolutely Paw-ful" – Wall Street Journal

"Runs out of super powers early" – Detroit News

"Cutesy and comic" – San Diego Union Tribune

Thor Love and Reviews:

A massive disappointment – Daily Dot

Testing the limits of camp – Chicago Tribune MSN

Disappointingly Shallow Marvel Encore – CNET

A Superhero movie that wants to be a Rom-Com – Lowell Sun

How Taika Waititi ruined the fun himbo Avenger – Mashable

Marvel remembers its audience are kids – Yahoo News

Charm spell on TV Show critics

The word goes out on Ms Marvel Disney Show

"Charming and Refreshing" – Variety

"Charming and Winsome" – MSN Indie Wire

"Has infinite charm" – Forbes

"Charming and relatable Teen Comedy" – Cleveland

"Charming love letter to fandom" – Geektyrant

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 $4500

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