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First, Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin, the creative team on the book, signed it Which is cool already, but then this one is also signed by some of the cast of the Star Wars films Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Darth Vader himself David Prowse, and both men to play the Emperor, Clive Revill, and[...]

Roy Thomas writes, courtesy of his manager John Cimino, Happy New Year everybody!  In celebration of a new decade, my manager and friend John Cimino and I have a special treat for comicbook fans both new and old  What you are about to see is a Herculean labor called The Official Roy Thomas Characters, Concepts and[...]

28 Deptford High Street, London. A Puff of Smoke Talk and Workshop with author and artist Sarah Lippett, The Centre for Better Health, 1A Darnley Road, London. Happy Birthday to… Roy Thomas, Marvel legend, writer on X-Men, Avengers, All-Star Squadron, and the instigator of Conan comic books. Creator of Trekker, comic book artist Ron Randall Jon Sommariva, artist on TMNT, Batman/TMNT, Go Boy and Gemini. Comic book creator Dan Brereton James E[...]

Savage Sword of Conan #11 is in stores from Marvel Comics this week, by the legendary Roy Thomas and equally legendary Alan Davis, along with potentially one-day legendary Cam Smith, Chris Sotomayor, and Travis Lanham We've got a preview below which finally answers the question: I am Groot?! In this story, Conan has gound himself a[...]

As first revealed by Bleeding Cool, Roy Thomas returned to Marvel Comics to tell a two-part Conan comic book story with Alan Davis and Cam Smith, starting in Savage Sword Of Conan #10, published yesterday. It also features the first appearance of Simino, a new character based upon Roy Thomas' manager and friend of Bleeding Cool,[...]

Savage Sword of Conan #10 is in stores from Marvel Comics next week, and it features the return of a legend to the comic he made famous: Roy Thomas Thomas is joined by the great Alan Davis, Cam Smith, Chris Sotomayor, and Travis Lanham for this comic, and we've got a preview below. The preview page[...]

Roy Thomas and his manager John Cimino will be appearing in the documentary Halloween in a Box, premiering on October 1st, on various VOD platforms including Amazon Narrated by Nick Banks, tells the story of the history and evolution of Halloween costumes and the corporate drive that brought dressing up on All Hallows Eve to the[...]

Back in May, Bleeding Cool told you that Roy Thomas and Alan Davis would be telling a Savage Sword Of Conan story that worked as a prequel to the classic Conan tale People Of The Black Circle by Robert E Howard. One of the original Conan novellas first serialised in 1934 issues, it saw Conan kidnapping a princess while foiling a[...]

Roy Thomas, legendary comic book writer and editor for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, flew to Portsmouth Comic Con last weekend Courtesy of his manager John Cimino, Bleeding Cool is happy to share his thoughts about the show. I would have written sooner about the con that Dann and I (and my manager John Cimino) attended[...]

Once upon a time in 1971, Roy Thomas wrote the comic book Avengers: Endgame This was around the time he co-created Captain Marvel, write the Kree/Skrull War and generally got down and dirty in the Marvel cosmic universe Now he has just seen the Endgame movie The following was sent to Bleeding Cool via Roy[...]

Jared Leto is playing Morbius The Living Vampire in the Spider-Man spinoff movie from Sony currently filming in London, Somewhere, I haven't managed to invade the set quite yet. But Leto has spoken to the character's co-creator Roy Thomas and has told him that comic fans should be ecstatic about the upcoming Morbius movie. Roy Thomas' manager[...]

Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, and Lucas Foster will produce, with Sony's Palak Patel overseeing production on behalf of the studio. Created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Gil Kane in 1971 and first appearing in Amazing Spider-Man #101, Morbius the Living Vampire was born scientist Dr Michael Morbius Suffering from a rare blood disease and desperate for[...]

This morning, Bleeding Cool posted a picture of Stan Lee with Roy Thomas, the Marvel EIC who succeeded him We didn't know this may have been the final photo taken of Stan, before he died today. Roy Thomas tells us, I'm sadder than I can say that Stan has died… even though I know, from my recent[...]

Other creators have had their name dropped in as boxers and bad guys, but the third season of Marvel's Daredevil features a cameo by writer/editor Roy Thomas The cameo was mentioned when Thomas recently appeared on the Marvelists podcast with hosts Peter Melnick and Eddie Wilson Thomas said that no one will even see him[...]

The 200+ page collection features issues from the original Marvel Comics series The Savage Sword of Conan, an introduction by Red Sonja writer and former Marvel Editor-in-Chief Roy Thomas, and a cover by legendary Red Sonja artist Frank Thorne. The collection features the work of writers Roy Thomas, Dann Thomas, Doug Moench, Clair Noto, Frank Thorne,[...]

Former Marvel Editor-in-Chief and legendary creator Roy Thomas is a busy man He's busy collecting paychecks for Marvel's Iron Fist Netflix show, for instance, even though he hasn't been invited to get involved in its production In an interview with Inverse, however, Thomas makes clear one thing that he is too busy for: criticism of Iron Fist[...]

I wound up getting most of my info from other CGC witnesses, so thanks guys! //Roy Thomas There was a good mix of dealers and people were buying One dealer I had spoken with said he could see that traditional comic cons were becoming the in thing again since the larger shows are getting harder and harder[...]

Both stories are written by Roy Thomas with the first one being drawn by the trio of Esteban Maroto, Neal Adams and Ernie Chan and the second from Dick Giordano. This issue of The Adventures of Red Sonja and six others are part of the current Dynamite Fantasy bundle from Groupees available here The digital deal[...]

Craig Russell and the writing of Roy Thomas Titan Comics is now publishing the Michael Moorcock Library and the Thomas / Russell adaptation of the Dreaming City is the third volume and is due out in June. Following his triumphant return to the city of Imrryr, Elric: The Dreaming City chronicles the Eternal Champion's most epic[...]

Free on Bleeding Cool today we have Classic Red Sonja Remastered #1 by Roy Thomas and Esteban Maroto from Dynamite Entertainment Cover by Frank Brunner This is in honor (and get your attention drawn to…) the Women of Dynamite Groupees bundle going on now over here So read the book here, if you like it and[...]

These days we'd call it a trade paperback. He scanned and posted from the forward by Stan Lee on Facebook. I love comics history! It is well documented that Stan Lee turned down Star Wars as a comic several times until one last press by Roy Thomas to make it happen and save the day[...]

Ex-Marvel EIC and veteran comics writer for Marvel and DC, Roy Thomas, has written three new volumes for Chartwell Books Each details one of the DC Trinity of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman and their contemporary stories relating to World War II, compiling select stories with commentary and analysis Go take a look. Golden Age reprints of DC[...]

Is there anything the masses can do that hasn't been tried yet? Scott Shaw: According to the contract that Roy Thomas and I signed back in the 1980s, we should only get paid a royalty for NON-COMICS usage of the Zoo Crew — books, TV animation, movies, etc The Zoo Crew HAS appeared on TV (the[...]

Dynamite has sent over a few exclusive pages from their Frank Thorne's Red Sonja Artist Edition Vol 2 which comes out this week. The book collects the first six issues of the 1977 Red Sonja comic book series written by Roy Thomas, Clara Noto and Wendy Pini. For more information on Frank Thorne's Red Sonja Artist Edition[...]

The Hammer Museum hosted an event on December 6th where comic legends Stan Lee and Roy Thomas spoke with filmmaker Kevin Smith about the history of Marvel Comics in honor of the new Taschen book 75 Years of Marvel Below is the video from the livestream interview. [Source: Hammer.UCLA.Edu] The Hammer Museum hosted an event[...]

Now the writer in me wants everyone to know that Bruce Jones and Roy Thomas wrote the stories we see here Six full issues from Marvel Feature #2 through #7 that were published around 1975  I find it a bit amazing that they were able to recover all of these pages to tell a complete[...]

From the sounds of it, and presuming this is mostly true, many of the elements of Doc's origin that they're using for the film are from Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #45 (1992) by Roy Thomas and Geof Isherwood Of course, the core origin is in Strange Tales #115 (1963) by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee,[...]

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Rich Handley A long time ago, in movie theaters far across the globe, cinemagoers waited to view the latest work by

UPDATE: The files below are from the submitted documents by Marvel to the judge in the continuing lawsuit, and are intended to reflect Marvel's case. Roy Thomas is a comic book writer, editor, and historian who first began writing for Marvel in 1965, later became a Marvel editor as well, and ultimately served as Stan Lee's[...]

He's also working on Nova covers and an X-Force one shot in the near-future. Roy Thomas – he's looking to write a non-Conan Robert E Howard adaptation for Dark Horse, although there aren't many left that haven't been published – and he's adapted most of them! So… any stories from WizardWorld? There's been lots of coverage about[...]