Mark Seifert Archives

The new trailer for Disney's Dumbo shows us that Director Timothy Burton, and all of the animators and actors involved are hitting the right notes

Stan Lee once said he had a cameo in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers. Wait... what? Is it possible that the man famous for cameos has a lost cameo?

LeBron James and his Springhill Entertainment production company are in talks to reboot and produce the fabled horror film franchise Friday the 13th.

Emma Watts, the 20th Century Fox exec who has overseen  several of the studio's most successful franchises, including X-Men, Deadpool, Planet of the Apes,

Ray Flook, Bleeding Cool's designated televangelist at New York Comic Con and other environs, wants me to tell everyone that Happy! Season 2 is going to

Fiction House title Planet Comics has long been considered one of the most collectible titles of the Golden Age. The combination of hard-charging and

Indeed the materials are so profuse that the author who deals in them requires neither invention nor imagination, but merely a fair talent for telling the

Vintage comic book anniversary milestones are my very favorite kind of nerd holiday.  I'm not much of a convention guy (yeah... I know, I know), and of

I've been telling BC readers for quite some time now that there are substantial, significant rewrites of comics industry history coming over the next few

On September 14, 1842, a publication which has widely been considered the first comic book to be published in the United States of America was released by

As a serious Superman collector myself, I've wanted one of the three known copies of this Superman Comics Ashcan ever since I started reading Gary

The story behind this particular Super Weird Hero starts -- as many such stories did in those times -- with a man named Everett "Busy" Arnold.

A completely bizarre tale of Hugo Gernsback vs Bernarr Macfadden in Gernsback's Superworld Comics.

If there's one thing that studying comics history has taught me, it's that there's usually a reason for Weird.

Yes, it's true:  Steve Ditko invented the universal hand gesture for metal/rock. Gene Simmons of KISS picked it up from Doctor Strange, the rest is history.

This is not Excelsior! Stan Lee, who might gloss over your question about what inspired with an entertaining story about some half-remembered pulp.

A student here in this newspaper piece covering what's described as part of a nationwide process to learn about the effects of radiation looks familiar.

This part of the story is important. I don't know if it's truly the biggest punch out of all of it, but it is indeed explosive. Let's set off the bomb.

Warner Bros is always one of the highlights of SDCC Hall H presentations, and this year should be no exception: We should get an Aquaman trailer, perhaps

We are back for yet another Hall H panel! This time we're here for Sony Pictures who we are expecting some Spider-Man related stuff! Kaitlyn Booth is in

The Transformers series have had quite a few stumbles in recent years. Bumblebee is looking to change that in a Hall H panel set to start any minute now.

Kaitlyn Booth is live once again from the current center of the pop cultural universe, Hall H at San Diego Comicon.  We're here to see how Universal will

Having once again defeated several other entertainment journalists in contests of bravery and cunning to maintain her place in the legendary SDCC Hall H

Welcome to the first live-blog of SDCC. We're in Hall H and it's time for 20th Century Fox to show off The Predator due out in September.  We're going to see and hear about The Predator, which is due out in Sept, and more.

A Los Angeles Superior Court has granted a new Temporary Restraining Order in the ongoing saga of Stan Lee's state of affairs.

Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers will continue creating political cartoons with the assistance of a Patreon page.

Now it's official: an Action Comics #1 CGC 8.5 (white pages) has just sold for $2,052,000 at Comic Connect auction.

Vintage comic book auction house Comic Connect has decided to continue the auction of an Action Comics #1 CGC 8.5 after a website glitch at auction close.

An Action Comics #1 CGC 8.5 has sold for $2,007,500 at Comic Connect. The comic features the first appearance of Superman by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

Entertainment website The Hollywood Reporter has posted a round-up of the current plight of comic book legend Stan Lee, but much of these newly publicized details are based on conflicting accounts. Here is another take on the piece.