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Marie Severin, First Lady of the Silver Age

interrobang — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:31:42 -0800

Starting her comics career as a colorist, Marie Severin was largely responsible for the distinctive color palette of EC Comics, where her brother Johnny Severin also worked. She later worked in the Marvel Bullpen, drawing just about everything, including many well loved staff caricatures. She turned 80 this year; here are a few of her Marvel covers from the 60s and 70s.

"No One Told Me the Price of Admission Would Be...a BROKEN HEART!"

kittens for breakfast — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:43:13 -0800

The Woodstock Festival ended forty years ago today, on August 18, 1969* -- and roughly, um, two years later, Marvel Comics was there! Writer Gary Friedrich and (wildly overqualified) artist Gray Morrow bring you an improbably cleanly tale of romance that first appeared in issue #14 of Marvel's My Love (November 1971): "It Happened at Woodstock!" (Guest-starring Janis Joplin, among others.) *...Although the story in question would have you believe it was 1968.

The Expanded Universe begins expanding

Joe Beese — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:16:43 -0800

30 years ago, the sixteenth and final issue of Pizzazz magazine was published by Marvel Comics at a retail price of 75 cents. In addition to cover stories like "Linda Ronstadt: Rock's Superwoman" and "Is Meat Loaf the Cutest Cultural Development Since the Pickle?", Pizzazz published what is arguably the very first addition to the Star Wars Expanded Universe - a serialized comic titled "The Keeper's World". Appearing in October 1977, only 5 months after the theatrical release of what was not yet known as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, it comfortably pre-dates Alan Dean Foster's Splinter of the Mind's Eye (March 1978) and even Marvel's own Star Wars #7 comic (January 1978). (previously)

Galactus is here!

vronsky — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:51:29 -0800

The king of comics - Jack Kirby

The Hulk is on the trim side, actually

Navelgazer — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:09:12 -0800

Marvel vs. the BMI (one-link, but fun.)

ryryslider — Wed, 17 Oct 2001 12:55:57 -0800

Marvel Comics Movies It's about time. Being in college and having grown up with action cartoons like he-man and thundercats in the 80s it sickens me now to watch kids having to watch crap like power rangers and japanese anime. Where are these kids heroes??? Now that Michael Jordan is coming back to the NBA and now that these movies are being made, hopefully kids these days will have someone to look up to. A hero...something America could use right now.