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"Since its founding in 1939 as Timely Comics, Marvel has published some of the most iconic series in American comic book history [...] For over 45 years, Fantagraphics has published the very best comics and graphic novels that the medium has to offer [...] Now these two publishing titans are teaming up for Lost Marvels, an ambitious series of hardcover releases featuring never-before collected comics by masters of the Silver Age, including Neal Adams, John Buscema, Howard Chaykin, Stan Lee, Jim Steranko, Barry Windsor-Smith, and other masters of the Silver Age."

Fantagraphics, collaborating with Marvel Comics, will publish three hardcover volumes in the Lost Marvels series this year, with more to follow in the years to come. These EC-style stories have been banned since the Comics Code went into effect in the 1950s, and we are very excited to share with Daily Dead readers At The Stroke of Midnight! from the upcoming Lost Marvels No.

Yoda finally shines in Star Wars comics, with epic stories and adventures that showcase his true power and influence. Yoda's journey in the comics explores his highs and lows, from heroic battles to devastating failures, offering fans a deep dive into his character. While always in a supporting role in films, Yoda's comic stories give him the spotlight he deserves, revealing untold tales of his bravery.

Star Wars fans would be hard-pressed to find a Jedi Master more prestigious, influential, and powerful than Yoda, especially when he was at the height of his Jedi career. Not only that, but Yoda is also one of the most recognizable and beloved Jedi in the history of the franchise - and for good reason. Yoda trained Luke Skywalker, he led the Jedi during the Clone Wars, and even went toe-to-toe with Darth Sidious himself, which is marked as one of the greatest lightsaber duels in Star Wars history.

Obi-Wan Kenobi was brought back to life in Star Wars Legends, but it was a misdirect, as the resurrected Ben was actually an actor hired by Darth Vader to trick Luke Skywalker. While fake, Obi-Wan's resurrection had more of an impact on the Star Wars galaxy than Palpatine's actual return, as the actor saved Luke's life, while Palpatine only cemented his already established defeat. Obi-Wan's pure surrender to the Force contrasts with Palpatine's attempts to cheat death, something that's made evident when comparing their 'resurrections'.

Star Wars fans are well aware that Obi-Wan Kenobi returns following his death on the Death Star in the form of a Force Ghost in Empire Strikes Back, but what they might not know is that Star Wars actually brought him back before then in-continuity in a Legends story called The Return of Ben Kenobi. While Obi-Wans Legends resurrection has all but been forgotten,...

Warning: Spoilers for Daredevil (2023) #7 ahead!

In Daredevil (2023) #7, Wolverine and Daredevil engage in a brutal battle, with Wolverine emerging as the clear victor. The epic duel is a result of Wolverine being possessed by Daredevil's lust for violence. Despite the demon of bloodlust leaving Wolverine after being purified in water, Daredevil concedes that Wolverine is a foe beyond his reach.

While Wolverine and Daredevil aren't exactly enemies, their short tempers and brutal methods often put them at odds with each other. When the most recent Daredevil (2023) issue finally pits the two against each other in direct combat, however, a clear victor emerges when one concedes that this is a fight they simply can't win.

The 2023 run of Daredevil has seen Matt forced to square off against many of his closest friends when they become possessed by Daredevil's own Seven Deadly Sins. It's Wolverine's turn in Daredevil #7, squaring off with Daredevil in...

Wolverine's Patch persona showcases the character's versatility and ability to fit into different tones and genres, making it one of Logan's most memorable alternate identities. Cosplayer Batsturd perfectly captures the look of Patch, with the eyepatch, slicked hair, and white suit. Logan's Patch disguise is a humorous take on superhero identity, and Batsturd offers an excellent tribute to this enduring character design.

Wolverine has had many names over his long life: James, Logan, Weapon X – but his alias Patch has more versatility than most, and now is immortalized in a terrific cosplay. Patch might be an absurd identity for Wolverine on the face of it, but it’s a demonstration of how well Logan fits in different books, with different tones and genres, and above all else it is a great look, as this cosplay exemplifies.

Cosplayer Batsturd (@batsturd) has created the perfect Patch cosplay. Wolverine’s Patch persona...

Welcome to the reboot of our regular 100 Word Hits column, in association with comics retailer The Unreality Store, in which Matthew De Monti brings us short, sharp reviews of the Retro comic books in one hundred words. Comics from all eras and all publishers, including Marvel, DC, indies, superheroes, sci-fi, fantasy, westerns and much more!

In this episode, Matt discusses Fear, a Marvel one-shot featuring Ghost Rider and Captain America, from writer Howard Mackie, penciller Lee Weeks and inker Al Williamson.

The controversial Holdo Maneuver in Star Wars: The Last Jedi was not the first instance of hyperspace-ramming, as two properties from the Star Wars Legends continuity include similar events. Vice Admiral Holdo’s hyperspace-ramming towards the end of The Last Jedi dazzled many viewers, while others recognized its lore-breaking ramifications. Of the two Legends-era properties that included hyperspace-ramming before The Last Jedi, one proves that the maneuver should not work, while the other demonstrates similar devastating effects, albeit under drastically different circumstances.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker attempted to mitigate the issues caused by The Last Jedi’s Holdo Maneuver scene by claiming it had a “one in a million chance” of success, but the original Star Wars continuity, Legends, demonstrates that it never should have worked in the first place. Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson’s Legends-era comic Race for Survival has a simultaneous trio of hyperspace rams fail to destroy the Executor.

He saved the Star Wars galaxy as Luke Skywalker, but in 1983, actor Mark Hamill also may have saved the franchise by preventing Marvel Comics from spoiling Return of the Jedi months before its official release.

When the first Star Wars movie came out in 1977, the Marvel Comics adaptation ran monthly in conjunction. The series then continued the story of Luke Skywalker and company once that adaptation ran its course, and Marvel continued to publish adaptations of the movies as they came out. The Empire Strikes Back was adapted in issues #39-44 of the regular series, while Return of the Jedi was adapted in its own self-titled miniseries. Before that came out, however, the miniseries adaptation of Rotj was released in a single issue, in Marvel Comics Super Special #27, released in May 1983.

Related: Star Wars Reveals The Details of Luke's RotJ Jedi Evolution

Mark Hamill Prevented Return of the Jedi From...

Jabba the Hutt is best known for his interactions with the Jedi in Return of the Jedi, but a Star Wars Legends comic implies a fascinating and untold history between the crime lord and the Jedi. Return of the Jedi’s comic adaptation includes a line by Jabba that did not make it to the final cut of the film, but it is immortalized in the Legends continuity thanks to the comic series and at least one other property. The Legends continuity, unfortunately, never makes good on the promise teased by Jabba’s line.

Since Legends was the official mainstream Star Wars continuity until April 2014, the various adaptations of the original and prequel trilogy films are part of the Legends timeline. This also means that certain materials, such as the Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith comic and novel adaptations, canonize deleted scenes and further connect the...

A new comic collection called Home to Stay is compiling every EC Comics adaptation of legendary author Ray Bradbury's stories for the first time ever. Ray Bradbury changed the landscape for science-fiction storytelling in the 20th century. His novel Fahrenheit 451 continues to inspire to this day as one of the most important dystopian stories in literature, with many putting it on the same level as George Orwell's 1984 and other sci-fi classics. Several of his other novels are still beloved today like Something Wicked This Way Comes and The Halloween Tree. Bradbury's work is legendary, but not many fans know that his tales found their way into the world of comics.

During the height of EC Comics' popularity in the mid-1950s, several of Ray Bradbury's stories were adapted by Al Feldstein for comic readers. This opened a whole new audience to the work of Ray Bradbury during...

Whether it's The Halloween Tree or The October Country or Something Wicked This Way Comes, autumn is a wonderful time to read (or reread) Ray Bradbury's classic works. It's an especially perfect time of year, then, for Fantagraphics to publish Home to Stay!: The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories (featuring 28 Bradbury stories adapted by EC Comics in the 1950s), and we've been provided with "The Handler" story for Daily Dead readers to enjoy in its entirety ahead of the collection's October 18th publication!

Based on Bradbury's short story of the same name that was published in the 1947 collection Dark Carnival, "The Handler" (with artwork by Graham Ingels and a script by Al Feldstein) can be read in its entirety below!

We also have the official press release with additional details, and to learn more about Home to Stay!: The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories, visit:

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EC Comics' 1950's science fiction title "Weird Fantasy" is being developed as an episodic TV anthology, following a partnership between the estate of EC Comics publisher William M. Gaines and Hivemind ("The Expanse"), for producers Hunter Gorinson, Gaines' daughter Cathy Mifsud and her son Corey Mifsud:

Published by Bill Gaines and edited by Al Feldstein, "Weird Fantasy" comic books are rare and highly prized...

...showcasing the best comic book illustrators in the business including Feldstein... 

...Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, George Roussos, Reed Crandall, Will Elder, Bernard Krigstein, Jack Kamen and John Severin.

"...the most controversial story at the time was "Judgment Day" (1953), featuring 'Tarlton', an astronaut from the 'Galactic Republic', who explores 'Cybrinia' a planet populated by orange and blue robots. 

"Tarlton realizes the blue robots are treated horribly and given fewer rights than the orange robots...

"...despite the fact they are identical except for their color.

EC Comics' 22-issue, pre-Comics Code title "Weird Fantasy" (1950), is being developed as an episodic TV anthology, following a partnership between the estate of EC Comics publisher William M Gaines and Hivemind ("The Expanse"), for producers Hunter Gorinson, Gaines' daughter Cathy Mifsud and her son Corey Mifsud:

Published by Bill Gaines and edited by Al Feldstein, "Weird Fantasy" comic books are rare and highly prized...

...showcasing the best comic book illustrators in the business including Feldstein...

...Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, George Roussos, Reed Crandall, Will Elder, Bernard Krigstein, Jack Kamen and John Severin.

"...the most controversial story was "Judgment Day" (1953), featuring 'Tarlton', an astronaut from the 'Galactic Republic', who explores 'Cybrinia' a planet populated by orange and blue robots. 

"Tarlton realizes the blue robots are treated horribly and given fewer rights than the orange robots...

"...despite the fact they are identical except for their color.

EC Comics' 22-issue, pre-Comics Code dark fantasy series "Weird Fantasy" (1950), is being developed as an episodic TV anthology, following a partnership between the estate of EC Comics publisher William M Gaines and Hivemind ("The Expanse"), for producers Hunter Gorinson, Gaines' daughter Cathy Mifsud and her son Corey Mifsud:

Published by Bill Gaines and edited by Al Feldstein, "Weird Fantasy" comic books are rare and highly prized...

...showcasing the best comic book illustrators in the business including Feldstein...

...Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, George Roussos, Reed Crandall, Will Elder, Bernard Krigstein, Jack Kamen and John Severin.

"...the most controversial story was "Judgment Day" (1953), featuring 'Tarlton', an astronaut from the 'Galactic Republic', who explores 'Cybrinia' a planet populated by orange and blue robots. 

"Tarlton realizes the blue robots are treated horribly and given fewer rights than the orange robots...

"...despite the fact they are identical except for their color.

EC Comics' 22-issue, pre-Comics Code dark fantasy series "Weird Fantasy" (1950), is being developed as an episodic TV anthology, following a partnership between the estate of EC Comics publisher William M Gaines and Hivemind ("The Expanse"), for producers Hunter Gorinson, Gaines' daughter Cathy Mifsud and her son Corey Mifsud:

Published by Bill Gaines and edited by Al Feldstein, "Weird Fantasy" comic books are rare and highly prized...

...showcasing the best comic book illustrators in the business including Feldstein...

...Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, George Roussos, Reed Crandall, Will Elder, Bernard Krigstein, Jack Kamen and John Severin.

"...the most controversial story was "Judgment Day" (1953), featuring 'Tarlton', an astronaut from the 'Galactic Republic', who explores 'Cybrinia' a planet populated by orange and blue robots. 

"Tarlton realizes the blue robots are treated horribly and given fewer rights than the orange robots...

"...despite the fact they are identical except for their color.

Jim Dandy Jul 21, 2019

The 2019 Eisner Award winners were announced at Sdcc 2019.

The Eisner Awards dinner for 2019 was held on Friday evening at San Diego Comic Con, and the night's big winners were Tom King and Mister Miracle, proving the Eisner selection committee has the same discerning taste as your friends at the Den. King won in every category he was nominated except one, taking home an Eisner for Best Short Story ("Talk of the Saints" in Swamp Thing Winter Special with Jason Fabok); Best Limited Series (with Mitch Gerads for Mister Miracle); Best Graphic Album - Reprint (for the hardcover edition of The Vision with Gabriel Hernandez Walta and Michael Walsh); and Best Writer.

The only category his books were nominated in that did not win was Best Ongoing Comic - Batman lost out to the delightful Giant Days by John Allison, Max Sarin and Julia Madrigal. Gerads also took...

EC Comics' 22-issue, pre-Comics Code dark fantasy series "Weird Fantasy" (1950), is being developed as an episodic TV anthology, following a new partnership between the estate of EC Comics publisher William M Gaines and Hivemind ("The Expanse"), for producers Hunter Gorinson, Gaines' daughter Cathy Mifsud and her son Corey Mifsud:

Published by Bill Gaines and edited by Al Feldstein, "Weird Fantasy" comic books are rare and highly prized...

...showcasing the best comic book illustrators in the business including Feldstein...

...Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, George Roussos, Reed Crandall, Will Elder, Bernard Krigstein, Jack Kamen and John Severin.

"...the most controversial story was "Judgment Day" (1953), featuring 'Tarlton', an astronaut from the 'Galactic Republic', who explores 'Cybrinia' a planet populated by orange and blue robots. 

"Tarlton realizes the blue robots are treated horribly and given fewer rights than the orange robots...

"...despite the fact they are identical except for their color.

Kayti Burt Feb 8, 2019

Hivemind, the company behind The Expanse on Amazon, has teamed up with EC Comics to produce two screen projects.

Comic book publisher EC Comics, whose name you may recognize from titles like Tales From the Crypt, Weird Science, Two-Fisted Tales, and Mad Magazine, is getting back into the screen adaptation business. Or, more accurately, the publisher has signed a deal with production company Hivemind to bring some of its creations to new life.

To put the deal into context, Hivemind is the production company behind Netflix's The Witcher, which looks very cool, and has Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark currently in the works at CBS Films. Hivemind is also currently producing The Expanse for Amazon.

Which comics will EC Comics and Hivemind team up for first? According to Deadline, the partnership will focus on Weird Fantasy and a biopic of EC Comics publisher William M. Gaines...

EC Comics, the legendary comic book publisher behind subversive and sublime brands like Tales From the Crypt, Weird Science, Two-Fisted Tales and Mad Magazine, has inked a partnership with Hivemind, the production company behind Netflix’s The Witcher series as well as the upcoming feature Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark from CBS Films.

The new partnership will roll out with two projects: Weird Fantasy, a television series based on the classic EC anthology series, and a biopic of EC publisher William M. Gaines, who was a firebrand figure in comics history and an infamous name to cultural crusaders of the the 1950s who targeted EC as purveyor of prurient material that directly led to juvenile delinquency. The 1950s moral panic led to an Congressional investigation that nearly doomed the entire comics industry. Gaines transformed himself into a leading free speech advocate and, with the founding of Mad (which...

Reprints for the first time the classic Star Wars newspaper strip in its complete format. No other edition includes each Sunday page title header and “bonus” panels in their meticulously restored original color. The epic seven-days-a-week sagas begin with “Han Solo at Stars’ End,” based on the novel by Brian Daley, adapted by Archie Goodwin and Alfredo Alcala, followed by seven complete adventures by the storied team of Archie Goodwin and artist Al Williamson. The pair had previously worked together on Creepy, Eerie, and Blazing Combat comics magazines, the Flash Gordon comic book, and 13 years on the Secret Agent Corrigan newspaper strip. They seamlessly shifted gears to take over, at George Lucas’s request, the Star Wars newspaper strip. Included are all strips from October 6, 1980 to February 8, 1981.

Mike Cecchini Feb 28, 2019

We discuss Alan Moore Superman stories and answer the question: when is Superman's birthday, anyway?

Alan Moore’s body of work for DC Comics isn’t exactly small, but its impact far exceeds the actual page count. Whether it was the psychedelic horror of Swamp Thing, the violent madness of Batman: The Killing Joke, or the industry changing Watchmen, the importance Moore's DC Comics output can't be overstated.

He's probably not a writer you immediately associate with Superman, though. Alan Moore only wrote three proper Superman stories (although he would revisit many of the character’s tropes with Supreme for Image Comics in the late ‘90s), but they’re all essential reading. Moore's Superman stories all came within roughly one year of each other, at a time when Superman’s popularity was waning among fans already looking for more mature takes on superheroes, like the work of Chris Claremont,...