This is not the kind of thing any previous Spider-Man writer had to deal with. Not even Stan Lee or JMS. But Zeb Wells married Saturday Night Live performer Heidi Gardner fourteen years ago in 2010. And so, a split makes the headline of People Magazine, which in this case reads "SNL's Heidi Gardner Details 'Painful' […]
Marvel Comics is currently having a Creative Summit as their Juky 2023 solicits and solicitations drop, with the first of the From The Ashes X-Men books, Aliens Vs Avengers, What If Donald Duck Became Wolverine, Life Of Wolverine, a new Spider-Man: Reign II, lots of Blood Hunt and.. a new Namor by Jason Aaron, Paul […]
In Amazing Spider-Man #45, in the middle of the Gang War event, we looked into a Oscorp basement lab being run by Dr Curtis Connors, otherwise known as The Lizard. This is The Ultra Living Brain, created by Randall Steven Petty following his father's research into the question "Who is Spider-Man?". Originally seen in Steve […]
Amazing Fantasy #15, the first appearance of Spider-Man by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee is also the first use of Aunt May giving wheatcakes to her nephew Peter Parker. Which are, for the uninformed American-style pancakes made with whole wheat flour and buttermilk, beaten eggs, butter, and egg whites. Although Aunt May has a more involved […]
Ultimate Spider-Man #3 by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto is published today. The original Spider-Man – and the original Ultimate Spider-Man – have a kid who has lost his father figure, learning to use his own powers for good and in doing so prevent the kind of harm that befell him. With great power there […]
Marvel Comics has released its June 2024 solicits and solicitations, with the new Ultimates #1, the return of Venomverse Reborn, a Scarlet Witch relaunch, the big X-Men #35/Uncanny X-Men #700 however you want to count it, Blood Hunts for Wolverine, Jubilee and Magik, X-Men: Heir Of Apocalypse, and the Uncle Scrooge and the Infinity Dime […]
Former 30th Century comic store owner Will Morgan made quite the find the other day which sent me down a rabbit hole. He posted to Facebook, "In addition to comics, I sometimes flog vintage mags on my eBay page, and was surprised to discover this item about Jack Kirby's daughter in the women's mag Petticoat […]
The earliest known use of the phrase sloppy seconds is in the 1950s. The Oxford English Dictionary's earliest evidence for sloppy seconds is from 1953, in Berkshire Evening Eagle of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. A crude term referring to a person having sex with another, after they have already just had sex with a third party, it can be used […]
It's time. Marvel's May 2024 solicits and solicitations in full, a little earlier than some might have expected. As Blood Hunt plays out across pretty much all of the Marvel Universe, and Amazing Spider-Man hits an issue 50 with Marv Wolfman joining Zeb Wells… and Wolverine goes for the big five-oh as well, with Benjamin […]
It was something I was talking to Ramzee Hassan about last year. A British graphic novelist, he got to write some Spider-Verse anthology comic books. And he told me that, when creating Spider-Man variants at Marvel, he would be told that every Spider-Man needed an Uncle Ben moment. Someone in their life who died because […]
Amazing Spider-Man #33 by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee was the final part of Spider-Man's first multi-part story, If This Be My Destiny…!, and is famed for an extended scene in which Spider-Man was trying to lift heavy machinery off himself in order to get much-needed medicine to his Aunt May in time. The story […]
Tomorrow sees the release of Ultimate Spider-Man #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto. and it is making big changes to the Spider-Man way of doing things. Some we know. Some will hit hard. Spoiler-sense activate! In this world, The Maker, the Ultimate version of Mister Fantastic, stopped the radioactive spider from biting Peter Parker. […]
Modern-day writers have been rewriting scenes from J.M. DeMatteis' Spider-Man comic books of late, including Kraven's Last Hunt, which has seen J.M. DeMatteis have a go himself, including Ben Reilly: Spider-Man and Spider-Man: The Lost Hunt. Now he's going for the hat-trick with Michael Sta. Maria for a story set during the beginning of Peter […]
Back in 2021, comic book writer Larry Lieber and the estates of comic creators Steve Ditko, Larry Lieber, Gene Colan, Don Heck and Don Rico filed papers with Marvel Comics for the reversion of copyright rights to characters Spider-Man, Dr Strange, Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow, Hulk, Thor, and others, owned by Marvel and […]
Fantagraphics is offering a Marvel crossover for Free Comic Book Day, as part of their February 2024 solicits and solicitations. Reprinting comics from Marvel's Atlas era as part of a new Atlas Library collaboration with Marvel, and form FCBD that includes Stan Lee and Joe Maneely's satire on Fredric Wertham, The Raving Maniac. As well […]
The following comic book creators receive "Special Thanks" deep into the credits for Loki Season Two Episode Three that dropped this morning on Disney+. Episode Two had the same credits as Episode One, but for Episode Three, there are three notable changes. They have added Peter Sanderson, Don Heck and Rich Yanizeski, and about time. […]
In today's new Superior Spider-Man #1, we see Doctor Octopus revisiting his time as the Superior Spider-Man, but also his origin story. This is how it originally ran in Amazing Spider-Man #3 by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee. With Doctor Octopus working at a US Atomic Research Centre, with radioactive materials. Until something went wrong […]
In today's Amazing Spider-Man, with Peter Parker, burdened with the sins of Norman Osborn, going up against Mary Jane Watson. While the letters page published a letter by "A Spidey Fan" asking why Marvel Comics doesn't just restore the Spider-Man marriage of Peter and Mary that was removed over a decade-and-a-half ago. One More Day […]
Recently, Bleeding Cool has spent some time reviewing the move from Marvel Comics to Marvel Studios. It's time. In October, Marvel Comics will publish Marvel Studios The Marvel Cinematic Universe An Official Timeline by Anthony Breznican, Amy Ratcliffe, and Rebecca Theodore-Vachon. Which will officially and in canon establish, season by season, year by year, the […]
Granddaughter of Jack Kirby, Jillian Kirby posted on behalf of her father Neal Kirby regarding a recent article published by Marvel Comics looking the Fantastic Four, ahead of the 2025 planned Marvel movie. She posted "A statement from my father, Neal Kirby, son of Jack Kirby, disputing an article about the Fantastic Four published 8/8/23" […]
