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Reading List: The Ten Essential Captain America Stories
Reading List: The Ten Essential Captain America Stories
Reading List: The Ten Essential Captain America Stories
The original Captain America was the creation of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, first appearing in March 1941's Captain America Comics #1 from Timely Comics, the company that would later become Marvel Comics. The book made waves from day one by featuring the title character punching Adolf Hitler over a year before the United States declared war on the Axis powers. Since that time, Captain America has had an illustrious career as the Avengers' most famous leader, but also as something like the moral center of the Marvel universe. We've picked ten of the very best Captain America stories by some of his many notable creative teams.
What You Might Have Missed In DC's June 2017 Solicitations
What You Might Have Missed In DC's June 2017 Solicitations
What You Might Have Missed In DC's June 2017 Solicitations
Every month, comic publishers release their solicitation announcements to provide information to readers and retailers on comics that are coming out in three months’ time, but there’s so much information dropped at once that a lot can slip through the cracks. This month in DC's June solicitations, DC Rebirth brings back some more old favorites in a more traditional setting, some New 52 standout stars get a chance to return, some Golden Age heroes appear in the least likely place, and Aquaman gets hot!
Greatest Hero You've Never Heard Of: Tribute To Booster Gold
Greatest Hero You've Never Heard Of: Tribute To Booster Gold
Greatest Hero You've Never Heard Of: Tribute To Booster Gold
On this day in 1985, DC Comics introduced us to a new type of hero. A bold, new, narcissistic and self-aggrandizing type of hero, named Booster Gold. For over three decades, Booster Gold has gone from self-important a-hole to comic relief to the greatest hero you’ve never heard of, and one of the biggest fan-favorite characters in the DC Universe.
Get One Of The Best Justice League Stories Ever For $2 Today
Get One Of The Best Justice League Stories Ever For $2 Today
Get One Of The Best Justice League Stories Ever For $2 Today
This week, Comixology is celebrating the return of Jaime Reyes and Ted Kord in Blue Beetle: Rebirth with a big Blue Beetle sale. If you dig a little deeper into what's on offer, you'll find that there's a ton of the '80s International era of Justice League on sale for a dollar an issue. And that means that for two bucks, you can get one of the single greatest Justice League stories of all time: the massive, world-shaking fight with Despero in Justice League America #38 and 39, from Keith Giffen, JM DeMatteis, and Adam Hughes.
DeMatteis & Gogtzilas' 'The Adventures of Augusta Wind' #1 Preview
DeMatteis & Gogtzilas' 'The Adventures of Augusta Wind' #1 Preview
DeMatteis & Gogtzilas' 'The Adventures of Augusta Wind' #1 Preview
JM DeMatteis and Vassilis Gogtzilas' creator owned series The Adventures of Augusta Wind is a fun, all-ages adventure in the classic fantasy tradition as a little girl becomes lost in an unknown realm and must rely on a strange cast of newfound allies to guide her through the strange new world. Next month, Augusta Wind returns for the final volume in the series as the very nature of story is under threat and IDW have provided us with an exclusive first look at The Adventures of Augusta Wind, Vol. 2: The Last Story #1.
'Scooby Apocalypse' And The Balance Of Being Weird Enough
'Scooby Apocalypse' And The Balance Of Being Weird Enough
'Scooby Apocalypse' And The Balance Of Being Weird Enough
Here's something I want you to do right now: Take a moment and just try to imagine explaining this week's high-profile new releases to someone who was reading comics ten, maybe even five years ago. It would take hours, and by the time you'd dealt with all the incredulous reactions and clarified all the ways that we got to this point, you'd still have to launch into your third act with "and there was also Scooby Apocalypse, where the cast of Scooby Doo meets at Burning Man right before the world is destroyed by nanotechnology." What I'm getting at here is that it's a weird book --- and more than that, it's exactly the weird book that we all knew it was going to be ever since it was announced. The question, then, is whether it's weird enough.
Remembering Comics' Fantastical Gender-Fluid Characters
Remembering Comics' Fantastical Gender-Fluid Characters
Remembering Comics' Fantastical Gender-Fluid Characters
My earliest encounters with transgender characters came in Vertigo comics in the mid-90’s, especially Wanda in Sandman and Coagula in Doom Patrol. Wanda dresses a bit like a drag queen (and dies a tragic death), and Coagula is a sex worker, but they both felt like real people, which is not how I’d ever previously been encouraged to view trans people in any medium. Growing up, reading comics has always played a role in my understanding of my own identity and worldview. I certainly wouldn’t say comics had an effect on my gender, but they definitely affected my understanding of gender. Recently, I’ve been wanting to look back farther than Wanda and Coagula and the mid-90’s. Amidst recent discussions of trans representation in comics, I’ve found myself thinking about what preceded trans characters in comics, before there was any chance of them existing.
Does 'Justice League International' Have A Legacy?
Does 'Justice League International' Have A Legacy?
Does 'Justice League International' Have A Legacy?
Q: What is the lasting impact of Justice League International? Does it have one? -- @dagsly A: Does Justice League International have a lasting impact?! Well let me ask you a question, Dags: Does Batman have pointy ears? Does Clark Kent wear glasses? Does Aquaman have pruney fingers and breath that smells like krill? Just so we're all on the same page here, the answer to all of these questions is "yes," especially in the case of JLI having a lasting impact. It's not just that it was a good book, but that it formed a foundation and a blueprint for the way pretty much every team book would work thirty years later. I mean, I don't want to exaggerate any more than I usually do or anything, but after Lee and Kirby's Fantastic Four and Claremont, Byrne and Cockrum's X-Men, Keith Giffen, JM DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire's Justice League is arguably the most important team book in comics history.
Buy This Book: 'The Fox: Freak Magnet'
Buy This Book: 'The Fox: Freak Magnet'
Buy This Book: 'The Fox: Freak Magnet'
If you've been reading ComicsAlliance for any length of time at all, you've probably already twigged to the fact that I tend to like really weird comics. Whether it's obscure Golden Age oddities, the Ninja training manuals that were sent to comic book stores in the '80s, or the pouch-filled excesses of the '90s, that's what I love to read. And in three solid decades of reading comic books, I've rarely seen one as weird as The Fox. Even though it had some of the biggest names in comics involved -- drawn and plotted by Dean Haspiel with scripts by Mark Waid and J.M. DeMatteis -- the miniseries seemed to slip under the radar for a lot of people, and to be honest, I can see why. It's a strange story about a strange character that most people aren't too familiar with. Now that it's out in paperback, though, it's easy to pick up and read -- and you should, if only because it's even stranger when you read it all together.
Classic ‘Justice League International’ Team Of Giffen, DeMatteis & Maguire Reunites For ‘Justice League 3000′
Classic ‘Justice League International’ Team Of Giffen, DeMatteis & Maguire Reunites For ‘Justice League 3000′
Classic ‘Justice League International’ Team Of Giffen, DeMatteis & Maguire Reunites For ‘Justice League 3000′
Oh, neat: Creators of the very beloved 1980s superhero comedy title Justice League International, Keith Giffen, JM DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire will be the creators behind Justice League 3000, a new DC Comics series launching in the fall. As CBR's Kiel Phegley reports, the book will presumably detail the adventures of Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern and Batman one thousand years in the future.