#54 Top Ten Manliest Superheroes!
Comic book heroes are usually rendered in an impossible physical ideal, but today’s superheroes go beyond Olympian physiques and into some crazy realm where even their muscles have muscles. Trying to...
View ArticleTom Mason On The Malibu/DC Comics Deal That Wasn’t
“The DC deal was first in the wind when Paul Levitz approached Scott Rosenberg at a WonderCon distributor party in 1994. It was one of the last big open bar con parties. In May of that year, at an...
View Article#57 Batman, The Grey Knight
The Dark Knight Rises is in theaters this week, the third and final chapter of Christopher Nolan’s take on Batman, which with its bazillion dollars in box office has clearly become the consensus view....
View Article#60 Digital Comics Rant!
I’ve been a comics fan and reader since the early 1970s. I left comics in the 1990s and have only this past year returned, but my interest is confined to nostalgia — today’s books don’t really interest...
View Article#61 Legends of the (Digital) Dark Knight
Last week I exhumed my rant about digital comics and the state of the comic book marketplace. This week, Longbox Graveyard looks at DC Comics’ “born digital” Legends of the Dark Knight comic series....
View ArticleTom Mason On Hating Mister Miracle #19
“… I hate this comic with all my heart. And it has nothing to do with the creative. It’s all business. Mister Miracle was one of the titles created by Jack Kirby when DC triumphantly gloated over his...
View ArticleSuper Tuesday: Direct Currents
Like Longbox Graveyard, these Super Tuesdays have showcased a lot of Marvel Comics material, but I don’t mean this as a slight to DC Comics. It is true that I am more of a “Marvel Guy” than “DC,” but...
View Article#79 Out Of The Holocaust — A Hero!
I’ve been on a Captain Marvel kick. Earlier this month, I wrote about Jim Starlin‘s swan song in Captain Marvel #34 for my Dollar Box column at StashMyComics.com, and one of my first articles here at...
View Article#81 Swamp Thing
I’ve already afforded Swamp Thing a place of honor in my Top Ten DC Characters list, and today in my Dollar Box column at StashMyComic.com I go on at length about Swamp Thing #1, but the full Bernie...
View ArticleDark Genesis!
Dark Genesis! Yesterday I wrote about the first four issues of Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson’s Swamp Thing, and I take an even deeper dive into the muck with this month’s Dollar Box column over at...
View Article#87 By Any Other Name: Darkseid
How do YOU pronounce, “Darkseid?” Jack Kirby‘s signature villain from The New Gods is one of the King’s greatest creations, a universe-spanning threat famous (infamous?) for his relentless pursuit of...
View ArticleYoung Justice Gallery
Visit my Young Justice Gallery on Pinterest. Read my column about Young Justice! (View all Longbox Graveyard Pinterest Galleries HERE). Filed under: Pinterest Galleries Tagged: DC Comics, Pinterest,...
View ArticleCover Gallery: DC Superhero Christmas!
A Golden Age Merry Christmas from Longbox Graveyard!
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