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

The Spirit Reborn - Review of The Spirit #1, Feb 2007 By Darwyn Cooke

Superman Confidential #1, January 2007 By Darwyn Cooke and Tim Sale

Richard Corben's Edgar Allan Poe – Poe's Haunt of Horror #1, 2006

Bloodstar - 1975 - Richard Corben

House on the Borderland 2000 - by Richard Corben

Review of the Joker Graphic Novel - Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo 2003

Review Harley Quinn #55 - "We'll All Be Home for Christmas"

Comic Book Stores of America

Comic Book the dilemma

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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

Rubie's womens Captain Marvel Hero Suit Adult Sized Costumes, As Shown, Medium US

Original Page October 2019 | Updated last on July 5, 2021

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

Comic Book Movie Money June 30, 2022 numbers

Films playing worldwide

Elvis at $60,732,008 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $85 million].

Top Gun II Maverick at $1,016,263,206 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $152 million].

Jurassic World: Dominion at $756,181,345 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $185 million].

Lightyear at $158,980,527 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $200 million].

Doctor Strange II: Madness of the Multiverse at $950,576,025 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $200 million].

Everything Everywhere All at Once at $89,392,790 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $25 million].

Morbius at $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 at $68,630,217 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $90 million].

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 at $400,978,482 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $110 million].

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledork at $401,145,511 worldwide [Production budget reported at $200 million].

Compare with recent films:

The Batman at $770,345,583 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $180 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 $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

Copyright Wars of the Superheroes

Guide to collecting comic book art - Dec 1, 2021, MSN News

Zestworld online subscription service is a comic book competitor to Substack – article at New York Times

"...the newest subscription-based publisher working to give creators more of a financial stake in the projects they help produce" – Comicbook

February 2022 Marvel list – Gamesradar

"Comic Books Still Rule" at Wizard comicon – Daily Herald

List of December Marvel Comics' titles

List of December DC Comics' titles

Captain Carter What If episode

Black Widow 2021 review

Review The Green Knight 2021

Amazon – 4K Blu Ray Zack Snyder's Justice League Trilogy – Man of Steel, Batman V Superman Ultimate, and Snyder Cut Justice League

“I really understand that [superhero movies] are like a religion for a lot of people,” she says. “They don’t appeal to me in the same way.

Interview with actors Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson at Hollywood Reporter July 21, 2021

Paperback Manga is taking over the world – American comics vs Manga, and which team is obviously winning

Alan Moore's Revenge – Deconstruction wrecks the DC Universe

Wonder Woman 84 Review

Deconstructing Stan Lee

Delayed movies of 2021 list

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