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With Gene Colan’s art, you got the feeling of three dimensions and real objects and people in real motion. The use of shadows and speed...

As you can read much more about in How Stories Really Work, and as has been written about earlier on this blog, protagonists are meant to...

At one end of a super-hero comic book art spectrum you have the stunning realism of Alex Ross, whose work on Marvels revealed a whole new...

If you wanted to set your son on the road to a broad general knowledge which would give him confidence and ability at school in the 1960s...

Collecting comics, especially Marvel comics, has been a passion since about the age of 5. There were many milestones and many memories....

In the 1960s, British comics like Smash! (along with Pow! and Wham!) serialised American Marvel and DC Comics stories as well as creating...

British children growing up in the 1960s (like me) often had their first introduction to Marvel comics characters through syndicated...

This was possibly the first Marvel comic I read. I was particularly attracted to it by the fact that I was wearing glasses by this time,...

I have in my possession a collection of comics dating back to the 1960s, about 5,000 in total. It’s not a fact which has been widely...

I grew up on comics -British weeklies, American superhero monthlies, educational comics, anything I could get hold of. They were and are...