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Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * From the people who brought you "X-Ships" ^ Sex panic % Prosolar * % ACTION COMICS #10 Grant Morrison and Gene Ha open their three-part summer story with "Clark Kent Is Dead"--G...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Don't say the name ^ Retro-novelty % The myth about the microphone ^ % THE BULLETPROOF COFFIN DISINTERRED #4 I'm guessing this is the pamphlet-form comic book of this week that people are most likely to gasp at discovering a few decades from now: David Hine and Shaky Kane's loosely coher

Last night saw the close of the online auction for the check that bought Superman from creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, having attracted more than 50 bids for a unique piece of comic book history before finally selling for more than a thousand times the original value of the Man of Steel...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * The Paul Masson principle ^ Somebody's read some Moorcock % Supertasters ¢ Claret and/or carrots % DAREDEVIL #10.1 Mark Waid and Khoi Pham are the creators behind this "no, really, you can start reading it now" issue. Tha...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Not quite (meant to be experienced as) comics ^ Out of time % Creator behind the wheel ¢ Technology solves every plotting problem ^ % MADMAN 20TH ANNIVERSARY MONSTER You can't accuse Mike Allred of being poorly connected. Thi...

Movies: Eiga's got scads of new stills from Capcom's Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, directed by Takashi Miike and opening in Japan on February 11. Photos: In Brussels, Hergé's Tintin and his buds are simply all over the place. Art: Disney artist John T. Quinn...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Redheads ^ Absence of customary redheads * ACTION COMICS #4 Grant Morrison and Rags Morales' new take on Superman's early social-activist days continues...

Following as harrowing a recovery as can be expected for a lost comic book, the copy of Action Comics #1 that was stolen more than ten years ago from actor Nicolas Cage has been sold for the record-setting amount of $2.16 million. The first appearance of Superman, Action Comics #1 was published in 1938 with a cover price of ten cents...

Artist Shane Davis (Superman: Earth One), editor Matt Idelson, writer Mike Green (Supergirl), artist Mahmud Asrar (Supergirl) and writer/artist Dan Jurgens (Superman) took to the stage at New York Comic Con to tell fans what they can expect from DC Comics' line of Superman titles...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * "Troglodytes... cavemen" ^ One interpretation superimposed on another % The germs of the transcendental terms * ^ ACTION COMICS #2 Grant Morrison and Rags Morales are joined by Brent Anderson for five pages of this issue, as part of DC's ongoing "no, really, let's make thi