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My Hero Academia
My Hero Academia, the hit manga and anime series that's a Japanese take on the American superhero genre, is getting another spinoff. The My Hero Academia Jump Festa 2025 stage event packed a one-two punch for anime fans today, delivering an Autumn 2025 release date for the main series' eighth and final season and the long-awaited news that an anime adaptation of[...]
DC & Marvel Comics Legally Challenged Over The "Super Hero" Trademark
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[...]
Super Hero Trademark
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[...]
Default Judgment Asked Against DC & Marvel Over Super Hero Trademark
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[...]
Sparkler Comics #4 Group (United Features Syndicate, 1941)
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[...]
Doctor Who to Disney/Marvel Studios: We Can Do Superhero Moments, Too!
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[...]
Sparkler Comics #4 Group (United Features Syndicate, 1941)
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[...]
Killing Eve: Laura Neal Developing "Grounded Superhero Comedy" Series
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[...]
Critics Choice Super Awards
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's Politically Correct Woke Comic Insults Long-Time Readers
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[...]
SCOOP: New Marvel British Superhero Team Comic Launches In Empyre
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[...]
Is This the End of Marvel and DC's Defense Of The 'Superhero' Trademark?
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[...]
abc
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": For the Girl Who is Everything
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[...]
James Gunn's 'Brightburn' Asks: What if Clark Kent Grew Up Evil? [Review]
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[...]
In April, 'One-Punch Man' Heads to Hulu for Season 2… If He Feels Like It [VIDEO]
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[...]
CW Seed constantine
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[...]
Legendary Pictures Has Greenlit a Superhero Heist Movie
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[...]