wonderworld Archives

In a moment that triggered one of the most important sequences of events in American comic book publishing history, the Wonderworld Comics title was launched as Wonder Comics #1 on March 17, 1939.  Its publisher Victor Fox was sued by DC Comics virtually the instant his debut issue hit the newsstands, "for infringement of copyright[...]

 This is the retailer exclusive cover to Civil War II #0 from Wonderworld Comics by Phil Noto. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dKdBlKgquwVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Sinead O'Connor ripping Pope picture – Fight the real enemy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dKdBlKgquw) And this is what it riffs off… Though it also seems to have this kind of vibe as well. [...]

At the DC Comics Roadshow in Chicago a little while ago, Wonderworld retailer Dennis Barger Jr complained about not being able to see variant covers before ordering them. DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio told him that in the future, retailers would be able to see such covers before the final deadline to order them and, apparently,[...]

Wonderworld comics owners Dennis Barger and Robert Bowman in Taylor MI are selling off their their 250,000 back issues of comic books to whoever will take them In bulk. Citing increases in rent and the reducing demand at shows for the dollar box –  as well as the DC Comics reboot – they say they have lost faith[...]

During which our anonymous retailer clerk took exception to some comments from Michigan retailer Dennis Barger of Wonderworld Comics We offered Dennis a right to reply And boy did he take it… This is exactly the kind of thing our industry doesn't need.  An anonymous retailer regurgitating a a veiled sales pitch, and attacking the only[...]