'Golden Age' comics go up for auction in Dallas

As a kid, Ralph Chicorel was careful with the comic books he faithfully bought for 10 cents at the drugstore in his Detroit neighborhood.

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Gordon Brown, superhero

The British prime minister's dull-as-dishwater image is getting a revamp from an unlikely source: U.S.-based comic book publisher Marvel.

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Md. Teachers Urged to Used Comic Books

Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck could become regulars in elementary and middle school classrooms after Maryland's top educator encouraged teachers Thursday to use comic books to inspire students to read.

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Since superheroes are well, super, you don't necessarily think of them losing any of their powers. And you most certainly don't think of them as older people. Are they even people? I guess that's a different subject entirely.

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At a special panel over the weekend at Comic-Con, Devil's Due Publishing presented the new "season" of Jericho, coming this October to a comic shop near you. And they've brought the original writing team from the series to the comic book.

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As a child, she was so politically chameleon-like that she didn't ride a bike. The reason: she saw no difference between left and right.

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If Marvel really wants to make four movies a year, then they're going to have to dig deep into their toybox to find enough characters to fill them. Luckily, we're here to help out with some suggestions.

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08 is a time-capsule of the events leading up to the 2008 election, starting with the stinging GOP defeat in the 2006 mid-terms and continuing up to election day, and as with many such recent histories, there's a certain vividness that comes of reading the recent past recast in h …

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A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman has sold for $317,200 in an Internet auction. John Dolmayan, drummer for the rock band System of a Down, submitted the winning bid, one of the highest ever paid for a comic.

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A Thai fireman turned superhero when he dressed up as comic-book character Spider-Man to coax a frightened eight-year-old from a balcony.

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A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman has sold for $317,200 in an Internet auction. John Dolmayan, drummer for the rock band System of a Down, submitted the winning bid, one of the highest ever paid for a comic.

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Reaction to "The Watchmen"

I normally don't place a lot of weight on movie reviews. Hancock, for example. received horrible reviews but was one of the best movies of its summer.

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A Dallas auction house says that a comic book collector from Dubai bought the softcover copy of the first Harry Potter book - one of only 200 copies from the first printing.

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"An Attack On One is an Attack On All of Us": Reviewing WATCHMEN

In the eighties, there was a massive shift in the world of comics. What had once been four-colored, uncomplicated melodramas shifted into complex, almost operatic melodramas, and the first and best example was Watchmen, written by Alan Moore and drawn by Dave Gibbons.

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Discussion of the movie releasing this weekend. Warning: contains spoilers!

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A rare copy of the Action comic book that launched Superman as the first superhero is coming up for auction. The owner, who was not identified, bought the sale magazine for 35 cents in 1950 and held onto it for 58 years.

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A rare copy of the Action comic book that launched Superman as the first superhero is coming up for auction. The owner, who was not identified, bought the sale magazine for 35 cents in 1950 and held onto it for 58 years.

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A rare copy of the Action comic book that launched Superman as the first superhero is coming up for auction. The owner, who was not identified, bought the sale magazine for 35 cents in 1950 and held onto it for 58 years.

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The latest DC animated movie is something I never thought I'd see in any format – the definitive Wonder Woman story. It's also got some seriously bloody violence and a deliciously raunchy sense of humor.

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Interview with the director of the upcoming "Watchmen" movie, including his explanation of how he justifies altering the ending.

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An interview with my cousin William Wilson for the Complex Blog.

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How to save Superman.

Now is the time that Super Hero movies have been the biggest they've ever seen. Over the last few years we've seen some great films based on comic books. Those of us who have read them, always knew there was magic in them.

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A man has launched a campaign in Japan to legally allow comic book-loving humans to marry their favourite fictitious characters. More than 1,000 people have signed Taichi Taka@!$%#a's on-line petition to establish a law permitting marriage to comic characters, according to The Da …

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My first read is "articulate, but cheesy"

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CC2K's Danny Lewis takes a look back at Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's already-classic All-Star Superman run!

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DC Comics is asking stores throughout the nation to destroy tens of thousands of copies of a new Batman comic book because of obscenities that were supposed to be blacked out were not.

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We've got some rather shocking news this afternoon for those of you who've spent years believing you're Austrian, Belgian, Danish or Dutch - you're not. In fact, you're German, as this map from Google's comic book guide to Chrome proves:

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