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Friday Runaround – And He'd Have Gotten Away With It Too If It Wasn't For The Italian Salad Dressing

Friday Runaround – And He'd Have Gotten Away With It Too If It Wasn't For The Italian Salad DressingKirbyWatch: Nat Gertler is starting "A Buck For Jack" to encourage people who have been to see movies based on Jack Kirby comic books, for which he and his estate received nothing, to donate "A Buck For Jack" for each movie, to his memory. Gertler is down nine bucks so far…

CharityWatch: Mark Millar's eBay auction of the supervillain name in the upcoming comic with Matthew Vaughn and Dave Gibbons, The Secret Service, raised $5100 for St Bartholemew's School which will fund, amongst other things, an upcoming pantomime trip for the kids.

DebutWatch: Horror movie The Hike makes its UK debut at MCM London Expo today… and then all weekend.

CrimeWatch: Mike Wellman, manager of the Comic Bug store in Manhattan Beach, dresses as Wonder Boy to see the prosecution of a man who tried to sell him stolen comics – the owner of which he tracked down using Batman-styled detective skills.

"it had been Wellman who noted that certain boxes of comics brought into his store looked suspicious, and it had been Wellman who found a clue in a smudge of Italian salad dressing, and followed it to the scene of the comic book crime.

"And in the end it was Wellman, 37, who showed up at the Torrance courthouse like a scarlet bolt of geeky justice, to watch his man cop a plea."

"I wiped it off with a napkin and before I threw it away I gave it a sniff, and it smelled like Italian salad dressing," he said. "Knowing what a sloppy eater Geoffrey can be, I called him again, and asked him when the last time was he ate Italian dressing. He said it was a couple days ago."

Wellman told Patterson the name of the man who sold him the smeared goods, and Patterson realized it was the handyman he had been employing for about a year.

Friday Runaround – And He'd Have Gotten Away With It Too If It Wasn't For The Italian Salad DressingThis is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on.

They say I am a work in progress. The fools.

'Ghost Rider 2′ Villain Blackout Isn't Based On His Comic Book Counterpart

"We didn't really honestly do a lot of research into the comic book version of Blackout," Taylor admitted. "We kind of just took the visual of him and went from there."

DC Universe: The Source » Blog Archive » Everybody's Talkin' About Action Comics, Thursday Morning (ET) Edition

The variant cover of ACTION COMICS issue 3 by Gene Ha, shown here for the first time, illustrates Jor-El, Lara and Krypto. Just what brings the downfall of Krypton?

Friday Runaround – And He'd Have Gotten Away With It Too If It Wasn't For The Italian Salad Dressing

Sneak Peek: Wolverine & the X-Men #2 | X-Men | Comic News | News | Marvel.com

It's official: WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN is a hit, and to celebrate the book's critical acclaim, Marvel is pleased to present your first look at WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN #2! Following the catastrophic disruption to the Jean Grey School of Higher Learning, creative team Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo are putting Wolverine and his new school to the test! With the all-new Hellfire Club causing all sorts of headaches for the new students, Logan must rally the troops and face the return of a classic X-Villain!

Fear Fallout #7 | Marvel Heroes | Comic News | News | Marvel.com

And I wanted an event that didn't require having a history degree in Marvel History; I wanted an event that had the heroes and the readers learning at the same speed, regardless of how much the reader knew about the Marvel Universe.

Jean Grey School | Marvel.com

"Who was Jean Grey?" Special guest lecture by Professor Charles Xavier


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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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