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John's Abbott and Costello Comics #2, Up for Auction Graham Ingels' Take On Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok #1 at Auction When the Shadow Detonated an Atom Bomb in Brazil in 1947, at Auction Nat Gertler Spotlights Missing Black Golden Age Superhero Sergeant Joe How Marvel and DC Comics Gained – And Lost – The Super Hero Trademark Things To Do[...]

Bleeding Cool previously covered the legal situation here. This trademark cancellation was granted after Marvel and DC failed to respond to court requests. Court filings Court filings Cancelled trademark applications RJLF challenged the exclusivity of the SUPER HERO trademarks after DC attempted to block Richold's efforts to promote The Super Babies—a team of superpowered superhero babies[...]

Co-operating over the registration of the trademark "superhero" which they decided to share It was granted by US authorities in 1979/1980 And one they have successfully defended with their legal departments ever since, disputing numerous challenges in many countries. Photo: Proxima Studio/Shutterstock.com Now a British comic book creator, Scott Richold of Superbabies Ltd, courtesy of Reichman Jorgensen[...]

John (who renamed the title for regular feature Nancy and Sluggo at that point).  But Sparkler Comics was relatively unique among United Feature's output.  In addition to reprinting comic strips like Tarzan, Nancy, and others, Sparkler Comics introduced a non-newspaper strip superhero called Spark Man.  A wonderfully strange and unjustly forgotten hero of the Golden[...]

Let's face it, Doctor Who is a superhero – and superheroine – now A full-on, outright superhero He didn't use to be In the original show, he was an adventurer, stumbling from one situation to the next, a vehicle or a format for generating stories in the old pulp tradition He was a pastiche of[...]

John (who renamed the title for regular feature Nancy and Sluggo at that point).  But Sparkler Comics was relatively unique among United Feature's output.  In addition to reprinting comic strips like Tarzan, Nancy, and others, Sparkler Comics introduced a non-newspaper strip superhero called Spark Man.  A wonderfully strange and unjustly forgotten hero of the Golden[...]

Fellow guest Barry Humphries delighted in the gratuitous violence in the show and suggested that all children should watch the show as early as possible. But what else is to come for Neal? When asked, she was rather reticent but told Anderson that she has a UK-based project which she describes as "a grounded superhero comedy with[...]

The inaugural event will honor those who work within several industries with superhero, science fiction, fantasy, horror, action, and animated movies and series, according to the press release The ceremony will be broadcast on The CW Network on Sunday, January 10, 2021, at 8 p.m ET "The time has come to recognize the brilliance, creativity,[...]

Marvel Comics have again insulted all comic book fans everywhere by announcing a new superhero team full of politically correct, woke, so-called diverse characters And yes, all sane individuals have been calling for Marvel to stop gender-flipping, race-flipping, orientation-flipping their characters and create new ones, but now we have all changed our minds and are[...]

Kapow – The Art Of Superheroes And Villains is a new exhibition being held at, of all places, the Potteries & Art Museum in Stoke-On-Trent, England Running until September, Friend of Bleeding Cool, Jason Atomic, has some work exhibited in the gallery and recently took a trip to the show to see his work – and[...]

And naturally, for a British superhero team, they will debut in the new Marvel event comic, Empyre The sun never sets  – I mean it's right there in this artwork ripped from an upcoming presentation which really looks like RB Silva's work Hey, we did it to DC yesterday, we're doing it to Marvel today[...]

But for Thanksgiving week, Bleeding Cool will be sharing a few of them, and you can check the rest with this handy dandy tag. And they included Stan Lee's edict from 1978 on how to spell 'super hero' and 'comic book' –  as 'superhero' and comicbook' Which, for Jim Shooter, who started his career aged thirteen[...]

For over fifty years, Marvel and DC Comics have co-owned the trademark for the word 'SUPERHERO' and have challenged any other firm or individual trying to partially trademark the term for their own purposes In 2009, the term "Super Heroes" was registered as a typography-independent "descriptive" US trademark co-owned by DC and Marvel With both[...]

Can Oscar find his way back to Cira… or will they be lost to each other forever, in a dangerous makeshift civilization that is mercilessly replacing the past? But as well as that, Berger Books is republishing the DC/Vertigo series Enigma by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo in a deluxe hardcover edition with a new cover[...]

I'm going to say that is one hell of a superhero high concept A superhero, who happens to be pregnant, forced to save the world from a supervillain, who also happens to be the father of her unborn child Gordon Mclean and Caio Oliveira's Supermom Expecting Trouble launches in Action Lab's December 2019 solicitations. Here are all[...]

may be set to shuffle off the network's programming coil after its upcoming seventh season, the network is looking to stay in the Marvel Television superhero business a little while longer According to a report from Deadline Hollywood, the broadcaster is in "active talks" for a new Marvel series – one that would focus on[...]

Paradox Girl is a superheroine whose power is time travel She has done it so many times in her own timeline that she doesn't even have a beginning or end any more There are so many of her past and future selves littered about that they're tripping over each other She causes as much trouble[...]

Nobody dies cleanly or quickly – there's a lot of slow determination, and even slower bleeding out deaths. Sure, we've seen what we would have taken as a good superhero go evil before, via kryptonite, radiation, or mind control Here this isn't because they're being controlled, it's because they have basically unlimited power, and are a[...]

You know, a symbol of hope and goodness… But what if the story didn't quite turn out that way? Sony That's the premise behind producer James Gunn's self-described superhero horror film Brightburn, directed by David Yarovesky (The Hive) and written by Brian Gunn & Mark Gunn (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) The Screen Gems feature film stars acclaimed[...]

Alongside Genos, his faithful disciple, Saitama begins his official hero duties as a member of the Hero Association, while Garou, a man utterly fascinated by monsters, makes his appearance. One-Punch Man follows the misadventures of Saitama, a former salary man who decided to train to become a superhero but has become so powerful that he's bored[...]

Nobody. A reimagining of the superhero DC characters originally written and drawn by Arnold Drake, Bob Haney, and Bruno Premiani, DC Universe's Doom Patrol is written by series creator Jeremy Carver (Supernatural, Being Human), who executive produces alongside Greg Berlanti, Geoff Johns, and Berlanti Productions' Sarah Schechter[...]

He loves superheroes, but it was refreshing to do something without tights and capes for a change He also spoke a bit about how little he had to do in regards to the character of Constantine himself Bourassa said that the character is so well designed that it's just a one to one translation into[...]

The superhero genre is, without a doubt, the biggest thing right now So it's time for subversion and this time it comes from Legendary Pictures. According to The Hollywood Reporter the studio has picked up an untitled superhero heist movie from Chris Baugh and Brendan Mullin with Baugh directing and both of them writing and producing. The[...]

Here are some of the highlights: ● On what it means for her to play television's first transgender superhero: "I haven't really grasped that yet I haven't really wrapped my head around being a superhero, first of all, and being the first trans superhero on television It feels fitting to say with great power comes great responsibility[...]

The normal dramas of raising a son as a single mom are amplified when Dion starts to manifest several magical, superhero-like abilities Nicole must now keep her son's gifts secret with the help of Mark's best friend Pat (Ritter), and protect Dion from antagonists out to exploit him while figuring out the origin of his[...]

The normal dramas of raising a son as a single mom are amplified when Dion starts to manifest several magical, superhero-like abilities Nicole must now keep her son's gifts secret with the help of Mark's best friend Pat (Ritter), and protect Dion from antagonists out to exploit him while figuring out the origin of his[...]

Black Panther Review: With a solid cast, compelling characters, and a tone all its own, Black Panther is possibly the best origin film to have come out of the MCU since Iron Man.

Cosmo and the crew are pinned down by vicious moon monsters. They still don't know where these creatures came from, but Oog may be able to help. Is it a good read?

With about a month to go before the series' second season premiere, Netflix has dropped a new trailer for Marvel's Jessica Jones - where ghosts from Jessica's (Krysten Ritter) past continue to wreck havoc on her present.

Namely, the state of studios' expectations and results of mass superhero saturation. Jodie Foster in the 2013 film, Elysium "Going to the movies has become like a theme park," Foster said in an interview with the Radio Times which has since gone semi-viral because of her mention of superhero flicks "ruining the viewing habits of the American[...]