Mark Seifert Archives

The check that DC Comics used to buy Superman has to be one of my favorite bits of comic history to surface in quite some time. I have a hunch we'll be

It has long been part of the record of comic book history that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster sold the rights for Superman to Detective Comics, Inc (the

We've mentioned high-end comic book auction house Comic Connect a number of times on BC, primarily because there have been four comic books in the world

My hardcover book fetish is almost exclusively confined to comic-related material, but I may have to broaden my horizons a bit for this one, in bookstores

During NYCC week, DC announced that the New 52 had sold over 5 million comics in 6 weeks.  At the time, second prints on many titles were just starting to

The Elongated Man too obscure to have a new action figure? I don't think so.  First, there's an excellent case to be made that there are no insignificant

In late 1941, just months after the successful launch of Captain America Comics #1, Joe Simon & Jack Kirby parted ways with Marvel over issues with

One of the fascinating things about this Watchmen 2 business is exactly that -- the business implications of it.  Because directly in the wake of the

It's been a bad couple days for Marvel news, with word of the cancellation of some well-liked titles following on the heels of layoffs at the company.

News of several people being let go from Marvel Comics today cast a shadow over the entire industry, just as it had been catching its breath in the wake

You have to be intrigued by a process that ends up code-naming a highly controversial project Panic Room.  Because what were the odds that a secret

And it's a double... or the number of them in shops is being doubled, I mean.  There's a drinking joke there but it eludes me just this second.  But Point

...Launching it toward Earth. Or so went the original version. And in the New 52? We'll start to find out in January, it seems... Most-Read Comic Stories

DC's release this morning of January's Detective Comics cover and solicits -- which happens to feature the Penguin -- reminded me that I wanted to do  a

Between the Court of Owls in Batman and the Penguin in Detective, looks like we're in for some fowl play for the month of January. You know if Adam West