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With this week's release of "Batman: the Brave and the Bold" and "Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions" and the recent success of "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game," it's been a pretty good week for comics making the transition into video games...

There are superhero t-shirts and action figures and posters and lunchboxes and toothbrushes and pez dispensers and pencil cases and cereal brands. And costumes and pajamas and underwear and collector's edition DVD box sets. And dinnerware and trading cards and cookie jars. Yes. Cookie jars. And despite all of this, the market for superheroes and superhero accessories still has some large, and prof

ComicsAlliance welcomes new contributor Caleb Goellner of Topless Robot and Splash Page for a weekly feature titled "Escapist Friction." Plenty of comic books have been translated into video games, but until recently, gaming tech didn't permit an actual comic reading experience at all comparable to the printed page...

Someone lucky enough to have the scratch paid $317,200 for a rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman. The issue of Action Comics from 1938 features a cover showing the Man of Steel lifting a car and its original price tag of 10 cents...

Given the enormity of the problems facing America right now, a lot of people are hoping President-Elect Barack Obama will turn out to have superhuman powers. He may not, but at least he's got a friend who does. In the upcoming "The Amazing Spider-Man" #583, Obama appears "palling around" (as Sarah Palin would say) with the arachnid superhero...

Press Release Sonic The Hedgehog has achieved something few comic book characters from the 1990s have: his title has survived for over a dozen years! Why? Chalk it up to a fiercely loyal fan base (comprised of a surprising number of adults in addition to children) who take their hero as seriously as fans of Star Trek ...

Press Release The Fantastic Four have explored the Negative Zone, faced death and even defeated the mighty Galactus...so what kind of threat could possibly be more than the Fantastic Four can handle? Set in the near future, The Last Fantastic Four Story is all-new epic that will show you a different side of Marvel's First Family and they may not survive the experience ...

It's the end of the week explosion! I have a new career as a police officer...well...it's more like I'm in charge of the neighborhood watch...and by that I mean I'm really enjoying calling the cops on the kids in my building for playing with illegal fireworks ...

Press Release Impact Books, the how-to write and draw comics, graphic novels, manga and fantasy art imprint of F+W Publications, Inc., is giving unpublished and undiscovered artists a chance to have their artwork featured in an upcoming book ...

I'm officially old. The kids in my neighborhood were lighting off some serious illegal fireworks last night. They were aiming roman candles at each other, running down the street carrying fountains, and I think they lit a trashcan on fire. I was all like "Man, one of those kids is gonna hurt themselves ...