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Tim Hanley is a comic book historian and the author of Wonder Woman Unbound, Investigating Lois Lane, The Many Lives of Catwoman and Betty and Veronica: The Leading Ladies of Riverdale He contributed the essay "Marston, Wertham, and the Psychological Potential of Comic Books," co-written with Travis Langley, to Wonder Woman Psychology: Lassoing the Truth , and the essay[...]

By Tim Hanley After the Big Two's strong showings last month (relative to their past performance, of course; on its own, 16% female creators overall is still rather paltry), Marvel rose up even higher while DC took a tumble in September We also take a look at a handful of smaller publishers that we haven't visited[...]

Tim Hanley writes; Both publishers were down slightly in March, but Marvel maintained the highest overall percentage of female creators for a ridiculously impressive tenth month in a row We also take a look at our regular stats from a different angle in our annual roundup. DC COMICS DC was down by the tiniest amount in March, continuing[...]

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; It was another big month for Marvel, who smashed the record for highest percentage of female creators, while DC continued their slump and dropped slightly from their unimpressive August numbers We also take a look at DC's full zero issue stats, seeing what's up and what's down since the relaunch[...]

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; After three months in a row at the same percentage of female creators, DC Comics was up in May, which helped them regain the top spot from a sliding Marvel We also take a look at the solicitations for DC's #0 issues, and find that things haven't changed much at[...]

Tim Hanley numbercrunches for Bleeding Cool; DC stayed the same AGAIN while Marvel dipped a bit but still had the higher overall percentage of female creators We also look at DC's stats from a different angle and see how these numbers compare to their regular totals. DC COMICS First off, my apologies for the delay in this column[...]

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool;  The Big Two tied this month, and at a decent number too, which gives us a unique opportunity to compare how DC and Marvel each arrived at the exact same overall total We also take a look at sales by gender, but that discussion gets quickly sidelined by how few[...]

Gendercrunching January 2012 January wasn’t particularly great for either publisher, with both DC and Marvel just barely reaching double digits for female