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If you look at the starting point and career trajectory of the most prolific or
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There is something deeply subversive that goes hand in hand with picking up, picking out
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It was the story of the strangest passion the world had ever known. It was
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June 10, 1963 was a Monday. If you were in America on this day and
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“It“s good to be alone”“, the man who was Green Lantern thought. He was not
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Much mention has been made that when Denny O“Neil and Neal Adams began their celebrated
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The kids weren“t alright. And if you thought comics were to blame and Al Feldstein
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In 1946, men in America were in trouble. And since superheroes were men as well,
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It was a train wreck, literally. By 1940, less than two years after an infant
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There“s a strange thing that will happen when a person dies. Quite naturally, in most
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In 1929, Luis Buñuel, the Spanish auteur filmmaker, who“d become a naturalized Mexican twenty years
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Let“s begin with a disclaimer and a friendly warning. While many comic books publishers put
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The times they were a-changin“. So were the landscapes. And the women. And this woman
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The best art, in a comic book or otherwise, is of its time as it“s
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Something weird happens when we imagine what a creator of genre fiction might be like
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Even though Al Feldstein put together some amazing stories when he worked on EC Comics“
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If there“s one quote which best sums up the terrors and the sense of wistful
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With Science Fiction, it is all in the name, really. Writers of any kind of
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