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Voices From the Archive: Trina Robbins on Selling Marvel’s Barbie Comics

Tales of marketing pitifulness.

Jim Shooter–A Second Opinion, Part One: The Best Job He Can

This is “the enemy of creators”? Really?

Comics I Like Despite Themselves

A brief look into the longboxes of Erica Friedman’s mind, to pull out the best and worst comics she enjoyed as a child.

February 26, 2012
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog, Top Featured
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Adding Incompetence to Insult

Can’t anyone here make the cheesecake?

Sublime Capital, Kirby, Lee, the Worth and the Worthy

Even if hypothetically Lee originated characters, I would argue that where there is no previous model then the artist creates the image and reifies a concept. If there is no model to work from, then one must create the original figure, which henceforth will become that model.

#10: <em>The Fantastic Four</em>, by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, with Joe Sinnott, et al.

August 1, 2011
By Andrew Farago
Best Comics Poll, Best Comics Poll Top Ten
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#10: The Fantastic Four, by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, with Joe Sinnott, et al.

By the end of the first issue, cover dated November 1961, we’d been introduced to Mr. Fantastic, The Invisible Girl, The Thing, and The Human Torch, a semi-dysfunctional superhero family for the Atomic Age.

January 1, 2011
By Alex Buchet
Columns, Keeping Up With the Goonses, Series
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Strange Windows: Keeping up with the Goonses (part 5)

This is part five of our look at comics, cartoons and language– today focusing on the comic book Art by Don Newton and Alfredo Alcala “Jeff and Tom are an item? Isn’t that cradle-robbing?” “Oh, total Batman and Robin, you know.” That same online gay and LGBTglossary consulted in part 4 gives the following definitions: [...]