The official blurb for Action Comics #1 by Grant Morrison and Rags Morales gives us the impression that we're heaing for a Year One approach…
This momentous first issue will set in motion the history of the DC Universe as Superman defends a world that doesn't trust their first Super Hero.
Why does that sound[...]
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DC Comics have just confirmed to the LA Times Hero Complex blog that Grant Morrison and Rags Morales as the creative team on September's relaunch of Action Comics.
But, in a move that is either audacious or desperate — or a bit of both – DC Comics is making a break, at least in numbering,[...]
But the comics internet is on tenterhooks to know, well, who is the creative tam on Action Comics #1, if that is the single remaining issue one launch of the fifty two issue planned for September by DC Comics.
I mean, from all I know, I think it is CBR has said that Grant Morrison is[...]
Yes, there's even more to get turned off by in Action Comics #901 if you are a Doomsday hater like me I hated his original appearance, I've hated subsequent uses… but can I be turned round by Paul Cornell's magic way with words?
No No, I bloody can't.
Kenneth Rocafort's art style for half the book doesn't[...]
And as for Justice, well that's debatable.
Oh you thought Action Comics #900 had a monopoly on controversial storylines involving patriotic superheroic figures engaged in real world politics? Except in this case it's a story to get the liberals in a lather over, rather than the conservatives.
Like if Captain America took down the people behind Wikileaks[...]
To no one's surprise, the news today here and elsewhere was dominated by Action Comics #900 I've heard that sales are brisk at the retail level, the book is still in stock for reorder at the moment, but that civilians haven't started wandering into shops asking about the comic they saw in the news.
Yet Because[...]
Do you have your copy of Action Comics #900? Good I get the feeling it will be disappearing from shelves pretty shortly, even at that $5.99 cover price.
As the headline says I was called up at home by a reporter on the Washington Times to talk about the events in Action Comics #900 I wrote[...]
Jimmy Olsen Oneshot is a strange beast to sell, initially made up of the Jimmy Olsen back up strips that ran in the $3.99 Action Comics before a reverse ferret was performed and all the books went to 20 pages, losing their back up strips in the proces Not all have been collected[...]
Rob Granito gets ignored for Geoff Johns and Zeb Wells, and we're right into tomorrow's comics from guys who have read them with Guy Gardner in Emerald Warriors, Jimmy Olsen's collected shorts, Action Comics as it all kicks up, Amazing Spider-Man, Kick Ass 2, Caligula (with Aaron calling for an Eisner nomination already), Avengers, Butcher[...]
As a longtime addict of the smell of old newsprint, it's strange to live in a world where I almost didn't bother to make note of the sale of a single
Is it a bird? Is is it a plane? Is it currently at $93,000?
Yes folks, a copy of Action Comics #1 has entered the market Despite having a CGC grade of only 2.5, this 1938 comics is attracting rather substantial bids.
This anthology comic features the first appearance of Superman, seen on the cover, engaged in[...]