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Rogues' Gallery: Who Is The Best Marvel Monster? [Poll]
Rogues' Gallery: Who Is The Best Marvel Monster? [Poll]
Rogues' Gallery: Who Is The Best Marvel Monster? [Poll]
With Halloween season almost upon us, we want to know who you think is the best Marvel Monster. The category covers not just villains and rampaging beasts, but several heroes and anti-heroes too. We'll leave it up to you to tell us which is the spookiest, scariest one.
Costume Drama: The Simplicity Of The Black Panther Suit
Costume Drama: The Simplicity Of The Black Panther Suit
Costume Drama: The Simplicity Of The Black Panther Suit
Welcome to Costume Drama, a new feature where we turn a critical eye toward superhero outfits and evaluate both the aesthetics and the social issues that often underlie them. For this first installment we're looking at a costume created by Jack Kirby, and still in use with only minor tweaks today: T'Challa's Black Panther suit.
The Last Good Boy: Celebrating Jack Kirby's 'Kamandi'
The Last Good Boy: Celebrating Jack Kirby's 'Kamandi'
The Last Good Boy: Celebrating Jack Kirby's 'Kamandi'
In the early 1970s, DC Comics attempted to gain the rights to publish comics based on the popular Planet of the Apes franchise. When that effort failed, editor Carmine Infantino asked Jack Kirby to create a comic with similar themes and visuals. Kirby hadn't seen the movies, but he got the gist --- post-apocalyptic, talking animals, animalistic humans, the Statue of Liberty in disrepair. So on August 29 1972, the day after Kirby's 55th birthday, Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth #1 was published.
Astonishing Humans: The Anniversary Of 'Fantastic Four' #1
Astonishing Humans: The Anniversary Of 'Fantastic Four' #1
Astonishing Humans: The Anniversary Of 'Fantastic Four' #1
On August 8, 1961, Fantastic Four #1 changed superhero comics forever, and yet it's barely a superhero comic at all. Legend has it the book was inspired by the success of rival DC's Justice League of America. That book is a superhero comic through and through, and apparently its team of heroes inspired Marvel publisher Martin Goodman to ask his top creators, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, to create a superhero team of their own. But while DC gathered its Justice League from their other superhero titles, Marvel was publishing no superhero books at that time. So Lee and Kirby created a team from scratch. But springing from the minds of Lee, who was by all accounts terribly burnt out on comics at the time, and Kirby, who had done everything in comics, but was then the master of monsters, Fantastic Four #1 was a weird, dark superhero book, about a weird, dark team
Marvel To Unveil Captain America Statue At SDCC
Marvel To Unveil Captain America Statue At SDCC
Marvel To Unveil Captain America Statue At SDCC
This year is the seventy-fifth anniversary of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby’s Captain America Comics #1 and to honor one of the nation’s greatest fictional heroes, a bronze statue is being erected in Captain America's honor. The statue will make its debut at San Diego Comic Con later this month, before finding a permanent residence in Steve Rogers’ native Brooklyn at Prospect Park.
Give 'Em Elle: Classic Comics to Help You Escape the World
Give 'Em Elle: Classic Comics to Help You Escape the World
Give 'Em Elle: Classic Comics to Help You Escape the World
Things are messed up right now, so let’s talk about comfort comics. Comics as escapism. There are a lot of current and recent comics that could work for this — All-Star Superman, Lumberjanes, and Squirrel Girl come to mind — but I want to go back a little farther. Because here’s the cool thing about comics: They all used to be for kids. Which means that a lot of the classic comics, the influential ones that made the medium what it is, are also escapist fun. So when you want to read something that’s going to let you forget your problems and get lost in fantasy, you can also read something that will help you become well versed in comics canon. This is literally how I became who I am today.
The Legend has Come True: Celebrating The Debut of Thor
The Legend has Come True: Celebrating The Debut of Thor
The Legend has Come True: Celebrating The Debut of Thor
On June 5, 1962, with a crack of thunder, a new hero burst on the scene. Well, not a new hero exactly. A very, very old hero who'd been reimagined for a modern world. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby at the height of their (dubiously balanced) creative powers, with scripting help from Stan's brother Larry Lieber, took a millennia-old Norse god and made him into a superhero in Journey into Mystery #83, the debut of the Mighty Thor.
Fantastic Five: Strangest Licensed Comics
Fantastic Five: Strangest Licensed Comics
Fantastic Five: Strangest Licensed Comics
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from our years on the Internet, it’s that there’s no aspect of comics that can’t be broken down and quantified in a single definitive list, preferably in amounts of five or ten. And since there’s no more definitive authority than ComicsAlliance, we’re taking it upon ourselves to compile Top Five lists of everything you could ever want to know about comics and pop culture. This week we're looking at some of the most bizarre licensed properties that have ever made their way to your local comic shop!
Cast Party: Who Should Star in a 'Forever People' Movie?
Cast Party: Who Should Star in a 'Forever People' Movie?
Cast Party: Who Should Star in a 'Forever People' Movie?
Welcome to Cast Party, the feature that imagines a world with even more live action comic book adaptations than we currently have, and comes up with arguably the best casting suggestions you’re ever going to find for the movies and shows we wish could exist. This week we’re returning to Jack Kirby‘s Fourth World, for the next chapter in my imaginary film series, The Forever People.
21st Century Monarch: A Tribute To T'Challa, The Black Panther
21st Century Monarch: A Tribute To T'Challa, The Black Panther
21st Century Monarch: A Tribute To T'Challa, The Black Panther
On this day in 1966, in the pages of Fantastic Four #52, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced the world to Wakanda, the most technologically advanced civilzation in the world, hidden in the heart of the African continent. At the head of this great nation was its king, T’Challa, who had recently assumed the throne from his father, and with it the title of the Black Panther.

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