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What's out there on the shelves and on the streets

Marvelous

Betty and Veronica Jumbo Comics

Dec 2018, WalMart

Joker T Shirt Rack

2016

Captain America Circle Shirt ont-shirt rack

ironman window glass art - Archibald

Avengers Endgame

World of Archie 2011 in FLorida

More Archie

Classic Disney Mickey Mouse and Minnie Shirt

Disney Mickey Mouse and Minnie Shirt

Mickey and Minnie Shirt - Disney Disney Mickey Mouse Comics Shirt

Archie Jumbo Comics

Archie Comics Jumbo

May 2018

Batman Shirt Modern Logo – Amazon

Racks

Comic Book Rack Feb 3, 2012 - Barnes and Noble

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Verdusa Spider Tee – Amazon

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The huge impact AI art is already having inside the comic book industry – MSN Geekwire – From a panel discussion at the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle

Batman The Adventures Continue | Season Three - 206 Pages - Amazon

The DC vs Marvel Omnibus - Amazon Pre-Order

Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League game playercount "worryingly low" – Forbes and on top of that "the game gets positive reviews but no one is playing it – Dote Sports

On the other hand, there are complaints online that the game is disparaging to some of the hero characters and there are fans feeling insulted by the game.

Does Batman really die in Kill the Justice League? – Polygon

Massive growth in Korean manga – Korea Times

Articles

The Top Batman Runs

The Crisis in Confidence at Marvel

Batman's No Kill Rule

Review Brave and the Bold #131, DC Comics December 1976

Notable Indy Comic books of the 1980s: a list

Sea Monkeys, X-Ray Glasses, Cheap Nuclear Submarines: The Rip-off Toys from the Back Pages of Comic Books

Review: Supergirl in Adventure Comics #423, Sept 1972

Review: Knight Terrors First Blood #1, DC Comics July 2023

Review: Mission Impossible 7: Dead Reckoning

The Secret Life of Catwoman, Batman #62, Dec 1950–Jan 1951

Long Review of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Review of Asteroid City

The tanking of The Flash and What's it mean?

Superhero movies on the ropes

Superhero Comics and the Freedom of Art

The 43 movies coming the summer of 2023

Review Shazam Fury of the Gods

Fast review: Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves – a Film with antecedents – Harry Potter plus Guardians of the Galaxy plus Lord of the Rings, etc.

"But you merely adopted comic book collecting; I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see my first graded book until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but plastic and dreams" – Aaron Meyers Twitter

Review: Quantumania – A bloated, over-written production

We asked GPT Model 4 AI intelligence: With Quantumania losing money, the question arises, what comic book superhero movie has had the highest profit versus production cost that has yet been made?

Answer: As of my knowledge cutoff date in September 2021, the superhero movie with the highest profit compared to its production cost is Deadpool from 2016, which was directed by Tim Miller and starred Ryan Reynolds as the titular character. The movie had an estimated production budget of around $58 million, and it grossed over $782 million worldwide, making it a massive financial success with a high return on investment.

Roy Lichtenstein and the comic books he cribbed from

The classic three-act storytelling technique

What is the largest American comic book ever published?

The largest American comic book ever printed is Cerebus the Aardvark #0 by Dave Sim published by Aardvark-Vanaheim in 1992. The comic book measures 3 feet by 2 feet (36"X24" i.e., 610 x 914 mm), with fold-out pages that extend to an even larger size. The comic book was produced in a limited edition of only 3,000 copies.

The largest comic book yet published?

Attack On Titan, as checked by Guinness World Records, is measured at 39.3 inches (1,000 millimetres) for length, and 27.6 inches (703 millimetres) for width, giving it a total area of 1,089.5 inches (7,030 square centimetres) with a weight of 31.31 pounds (13.75 kilograms).

This doesn't include the book cover, which is 39.7 inches (1,010 millimetres) in height and 28.11 inches (714 millimetres) wide.

Review: Weird Mystery #4, Jan-Feb 1973

Here come the AI comic books – Comics Beat

Artificial intelligence (AI) art generators like Midjourney, DALL-E and Stable Diffusion have recently advanced in leaps and bounds..... Current peculiarities to comics with AI art include: Inconsistent faces, bodies, props, and clothing (although grassroots communities and tutorials have sprung up where comic creators swap tips on major challenges like achieving character consistency...

The trauma of artificial intelligence artwork is affecting every area of the artwork industry, and comic books are no different. The gimmick part of AI is understandable: what's bizarre, good, bad or just plain new has a chance of grabbing attention and being a viable market in the industry of image-making.

But the AI phenomenon goes well beyond that because it fuses together all that attention-getting plus the general obsession of the modern world with technology, implies any person with a computer and access to AI could theoretically start generating great art. Does this mean AI could be on the cusp of rather boldly marching into the house of already existing employed and livelihood earning artists and burning the place down around their heads? More on AI the Artificial Art

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