Last Update August 24, 2026
Spider-Man tops weekend box office again – Hindustan Times
"Stan Lee is coming back from beyond the grave as AI" – AOL.com
Spider-Man Brand New Day at $2,219,901,000 Worldwide – The Numbers
This means Spider-Man A Brand New Million Every Day is #2 in the Top Earning Superhero Films of All Time list.
"Challenges Games and Comics was informed he had to vacate his space at Northlake Mall in 30 days, he was frantic" – Atlanta Journal and Constitution
"Tall Man Toys & Comics" closing in Knoxville – WATE Knoxville
Hermann said supporting the hospital has long been part of the business. He said he and members of his staff have personal connections to the hospital, and Tall Man Toys & Comics has participated in multiple fundraisers benefiting children over the years. The store is also offering another way for customers to contribute during its final fundraiser..."
Obit for Roger Lootine - 1970–2026 – Cartoonist Conspiracy
The November Marvel book list – Comicsbeat
The November DC book list – Bleeding Cool
Ignatz Award nominees announced – Comicsbeat
Garry Leach's Comic Collection goes up for sale – Bleeding Cool
Lego $229.99 Batmobile – MSN Nerdist
CGC 9.9 Absolute Batman #1 sold for $10K – Bleeding Cool – article lists other crazy prices for variant Absolute Batman and the census count on how many CGC 9.9 copies there are for AB#1.
Oklahoma Comic Arts Festival returns to Oklahoma Contemporary Sept. 12 – Journal Record
Event Official Website – 11 NW 11th St., Oklahoma City, OK 73103
Krysten Ritter to participate in "It Demands Sacrifice: Record Read-A-Long is intended to revive the classic comic book record read-alongs of the 1970s for a new generation" – Bleeding Cool
Here comes Batman Knightfall R-rated animation movie – The Direct
Batman: Knightfall - Part 1: Knightfall arrives digitally on August 25, with its 4K UHD/Blu-ray/DVD release following on September 8; Part 2 is also slated for later in 2026 and Part 3 for early 2027..."
Batmobile in Scotland: Batman II filming – BBC News
Macroverse business shenanigans – The Comics Journal
"Is Avengers: Armageddon Actually Civil War III In Disguise?" – Bleeding Cool
Athletes recreate superhero movie stunts – MSN Amazon Video
Collection of Boldjun cartoons – AOL.com
Spider-Man Brand New Day at $2,039,931,866 Worldwide – The Numbers
"Avengers pre-sale beating Spider-Man Brand New Day" – Times Now MSN
Spider-Man Headphones at Walmart
Supergirl, Madame Web, The Bride... movies that have a certain thing in common – Collider
Obit for Ioannis "Yani" Mentzas the co-founder the publishing house Vertical and Editorial Director of Kodansha USA – The Comics Journal
Remembering "the Limited Collectors’ Edition #C-25 Batman" from 1975 – 13th Dimension
A list of 1972–1978 the DC "Limited Collector Editions" at comics.org
Victor was always the smartest guy in every room
$2 billion in two weeks: Spider-Man Brand New Day – Variety
As noted in the article at Variety, Spider-Man Brand New Billion Every Day is joining a pretty exclusive club of $2 billion dollar grossing movies:
1997 — Titanic (20th Century Fox / Paramount Pictures) — $2.265 billion
2009 — Avatar (20th Century Fox / Lightstorm Entertainment) — $2.924 billion
2015 — Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (Lucasfilm) — $2.071 billion
2018 — Avengers: Infinity War (Marvel Studios) — $2.052 billion
2019 — Avengers: Endgame (Marvel Studios) — $2.799 billion
2022 — Avatar: The Way of Water (20th Century Studios / Lightstorm Entertainment) — $2.334 billion
2025 — Ne Zha 2 (Chengdu Coco Cartoon / Enlight Pictures) — $2.271 billion
Note: only two superhero films have ever crossed $2 billion — Infinity War and Endgame
The Nic Cage superhero movies – Polygon
Cage renamed himself after Marvel's Luke Cage, in order to set himself apart from his famous uncle; he named one of his sons Kal-El, after Superman's Kryptonian name; his comics collection was worth millions at one point, including a copy of Action Comics #1; he's the only actor to date who's played both Superman and (a version of) Spider-Man..."
1940's "Fantastic Comics #7 is an example of the Fox line at its best" – Bleedingcool
Nice overview of the issue with attention to the ramifications going into the stories regarding budding technology changes happening in the word of 1940. Also features a look at a Fletcher Hanks "Stardust" story.
The Stardust story "The Anti-Solar Ray" is another example of creative comic-book interpretation that repurposes the underlying science. Astronomers had used the phrase "anti-solar rays" decades before this comic for sunlight that appears to converge at the point opposite the Sun. Hanks turns that real term into an imaginary cosmic weapon. The story's villains plan to stop the Earth from rotating, eliminate gravity, chain themselves to the ground, secure the water supply with machinery, and rule whatever population is left..."
Around the internet: DC's planned TV series' Waller and Paradise Lost have both been "adiosed" by by Warner Bros.
Supergirl gets new troubles: AI generation during pre-production – Comicbookmovie
Supergirl was an unmitigated disaster for DC Studios... Earlier this month, Supergirl ended its time in theaters with a dismal $125.8 million, making it the lowest-grossing DC movie since 2004's Catwoman..."
Apparently, AI was used for work on Lobo within the Supergirl film, spawning an internet backlash. Film makers using AI (instead of hiring actual human concept artists) are going to have to hide what they're doing better since there's a very strong film-world attitude that holding back AI from grabbing up jobs is super-important.
It's a little baffling that Warner Bros. Discovery included this in official material for Supergirl..."
Spider-Man Brand New Day just crossed $700 million domestic box office - a rare feat – Variety
$100K in valuables stolen from Vermont comic book store – MSN NBC5
What's happened to DC's “Gods and Monsters” plan for their movie slate? – Comicsbeat
Superman: opened in 2025, made $354,223,803 worldwide (the most of any Superman film), and was a hit on all fronts, and even made Superman cool again..."
What? Is this AI? Superman made $618,723,803 worldwide. Just look at the Top Earning Superhero Movies of All Time chart – as of August 2026, James Gunn's Superman is #45, just barely ahead of Logan.
And, adjusted for inflation and ticket prices along with special costs for IMAX, etc., it doesn't come close to the original earnings on Christopher Reeves' Superman of 1978, which with those adjustments might be as high as $1.4 billion. For that matter, with or without adjustment for inflation, the 2025 Superman doesn't beat out Snyder's Man O' Steel from 2013 ($668,045,518 worldwide).
The August 12 Wednesday releases – Freshcomics
Is Matt Reeves filming Batman II and Batman III at the same time? – Variety MSN
Viola Davis birthday – Bola VIP
Here comes a Star Wars – Marvel Comics crossover – IGN
The series looks to unite the contemporary Marvel characters with the classic, A New Hope-era Star Wars cast...."
Stan Lee: I used to be embarrassed because I was a comic book writer
Story at Yahoo
Batman #8 cover F selling on eBay for upwards of $50 to $75 – Bleedingcool
Funds being raised for cancer fight for Andy Fish – Worcestermag
Frank Miller talks about The Odyssey, Spider-Man and his new book Push the Wall also the documentary on his career – Hollywood Reporter MSN
Tuesday sees the wide digital release of Frank Miller: American Genius, the documentary made by his creative partner Silenn Thomas, which doesn't just look at his career and work but, as he puts it, delves into "this wonderful subculture that we all share of comic book and how it celebrates itself all over the planet..."
Your book is part memoir and part lessons in creativity. Why do it this way? ...."
Amazon would be delighted to sell you a copy of Frank Miller: American Genius
The number of comic book people Neal Adams impacted (in a good way) seems to be a very long list.
I got my career started by calling up Neal Adams' office and getting a meeting with him... And he was listed in the phone book. And I got to meet him that day, an hour after I called. And he looked over my drawings and told me they were terrible and sent me off. I redid them and I saw him again and again and again. And he was always a harsh critic, but every time he taught me more and more, sometimes doing drawings over them. And, and as the months went by, he got me my first job and he continued to be a sensei and an advisor to me on things professional and on how to deal with being an artist in the world and many other things...
... one time, Neal and I were at a comic book convention and I just took him aside and I just said, "Neal, how do I thank you for what you've done for me? You've never asked me for anything." And he said, "Oh, there's only one thing you can do. Do the same thing for the next guy." Well, this book really is my attempt to do the same thing for the next guy. And to commit to paper my experiences, my observations and, and the lessons learned in making comic books..."
Spider-Man Brand New Day at $1,672,082,079 Worldwide – The Numbers
The Spider-Man phenomenon – MSN El Mundo
Spider-Man has been a money-making machine since the saga was founded with Raimi's Spider-Man in 2002. This was already the first movie to surpass $100 million at the U.S. box office in its opening weekend. It ended up grossing $800 million worldwide, sold 12.2 million DVD copies in a couple of months, and turned a superhero hiding a young misfit into an icon. Of the eight movies that followed, none fell below $700 million. The entire saga has now surpassed $9 billion in revenue. Various reports estimate annual merchandise sales revenue for the character at around $1 billion..."
The appeal of comic books – MSN Worcester Telegram
Article interviews a variety of people to talk on the appeal of comics, and many recount how they first encountered comic books and the impact it had on them.
It’s very interesting," says Carson. "Superhero movies are maybe the biggest movies in Hollywood, but comics haven’t had that same exponential growth in readership. Part of it is in that word, ‘readership.’ I would see that with people who say they loved ‘Lord of the Rings.’ They’d say, ‘I haven’t read it yet, but I loved the movies.'
..."
Archie Comics surrounded by "... a web of complicated lawsuits" – Comicsbeat
Blockbusters are ...back! – Variety
... the record-setting opening weekend of "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" isn’t something that happens every day, or every year — more like once a decade...The jackpot juggernaut of "Brand New Day" has given us amnesia about comic-book-movie fatigue; but you’d better believe it will be back...."
"Spider-Man is supposed to be a standalone hero, but the connection to Iron Man won't go away" – MSN Screenrant
Gaming cards pile up auction records – Comicbook
That enduring demand was on full display during a recent Fanatics Collect Weekly Auction, where five Mewtwo and Gengar cards sold for a combined $325,200. The three Gengar cards accounted for $234,000 of that total, while the two Mewtwo cards finished in a statistically improbable dead heat at $45,600 apiece...."
Collection of cartoons by Filipino artist AJ Bacar aka SSkait – AOL News
Printing edition number 12 for Absolute Batman #1 – Bleedingcool
The Diamond Bankruptcy debacle keeps moving forward – Comicsbeat
....a legal victory for the publishers..."
Personal note: Bankruptcy works in mysterious ways. A couple of generations ago, a relative was doing repair work for a small-time manufacturer, and left repair tools on-site while doing the work. Suddenly the property was seized as part of bankruptcy. Despite circumstances, the tools were ultimately (and legally) left in the possession of the main creditor who seized the property, and not returned to the repairman (my relative) who had nothing to do with the financial issues at hand. "Possession" of physical property goes a long way in court toward establishing ownership.
Graphic novel review, preview: the lives of the inhabitants of Bedford Street – Broken Frontier
An Altman-esque, darkly comic exploration of social decay, hardship, recklessness, and isolation composed of loosely interwoven stories of different sets of characters living on the same street..."
Push the Wall: My Life, Writing, Drawing, and the Art of Storytelling
Profile of Batman (and Frank Miller) – BBC News
The lead on the BBC article totally ignores Neal Adams and Denny O'Neil, the two typically credited with moving Batman from the 1966 Batman TV show "camp" style back towards the original roots in crime-busting and scaring criminals.
First published 40 years ago in 1986, Frank Miller's graphic novel transformed the Caped Crusader from a camp, comical figure into a brutal new kind of superhero. He tells the BBC how it became a sensation. [No longer] ...a deadpan do-gooder who wears underpants over his tights, and always carries a can of shark repellent spray..."
It is surprising the headline doesn't have the classic, and staid, "Bang! Pow!" that starts these kind of comic book subject overviews.
Described by Star Wars creator George Lucas as "the Michelangelo of our time", Miller is notable in the world of superhero comics in that he is a writer-artist who both writes and draws to the same breathtaking standard..."
Frank Frazetta used to be called the "Michelangelo" of the late 20th century, though that was a pretty hard stretch since Michelangelo was so focused on getting his anatomy right that he challenged critics to find errors. Frazetta readily acknowledged "exaggeration" as an important element of his style.
But Frazetta certainly comes closer to Michelangelo than does Frank Miller in this regard. Miller has a style that long ago devolved into a personal version of superhero-cartooning.
But he [Frank Miller] is best known for The Dark Knight Returns, which Stephen King rates as "probably the finest piece of comic art ever to be published in a popular edition".
Congealing Miller's artwork with the story might be the best way to judge The Dark Knight Returns. Getting a high five from Stephen King (in 1986) certainly didn't hurt when it came to selling the book to a non-Batman-fan audience.
1986 is as good a marking point as any to recognize there was a divide between the people with built-in memories of the 1966 Adam West TV show and people who were now young enough that the 1960's silly version of Batman wasn't a significant cultural marker for understanding the character.
While Americans in the 1980s were renting VHS tapes in massive numbers from video stores and rewatching older movies and shows from their past, the 1966 Batman was remarkably absent, tied up in legal issues over rights. That Batman simply wasn't available (except for TV syndication) to compete against a modern, harsher version of the character, one that was not only harkening backward to the pulp era and its Bob Kane-Bill Finger roots (as Frank Miller will often say) but was obviously strained through 1970's urban crime films like Death Wish and, perhaps more so, packaged within an era in which Bernard Goetz was a well known and peculiar cultural artifact.
Numerous articles were written about how superhero comics weren't for children anymore. And the influence his work had on the comics industry was "pretty obvious fairly quickly", he admits – as were the shameless imitations. "But that's the nature of the beast. If something succeeds, there's a natural inclination by not just the publishers but the talent as well to imitate it. It's certainly nothing to resent or deplore..."
Imitation and "lifting" from The Dark Knight Returns is so abundant across comics and film that a person has already partially read The Dark Knight Returns before ever actually doing so. Miller articulated the vigilante pose in a way that was acceptable in the 1980s and moved that attitude into the mainstream, changing how aggression could (and couldn't) be presented. Miller wasn't the only person working that fertile field, but The Dark Knight Returns might be the clearest crystallization of it, for comics or for related narrative mediums, in the 1980s.
The angry inner-world of Miller's Bruce Wayne doesn't surprise anyone reading Batman comics now because that is the usual way the character is presented, but that wasn't the case prior to 1986. Even more so, Miller's earlier run on Daredevil introduced the "pulpy" elements that The Dark Knight Returns amplified, and between those two poles a lot of comicdom was changed.
Whether Frank Miller changed comics for good or ill isn't an argument that appears in the BBC article (but the new book Push the Wall: My Life, Writing, Drawing, and the Art of Storytelling itself isn't so humble about the matter "Frank Miller is our greatest living comic book writer and artist"). Elsewhere, though, across comicdom, there are numerous ideological attacks on Frank Miller for various reasons.
The amount of time between The Dark Knight Returns originally coming out and the newer 21st era of politcally-enfused evaluation of art (for purposes of politics and not art) is a gulf that, in a way, keeps The Dark Knight Returns safe from Miller himself.
Online collection of cartoons by Clar Hart – AOL
If you've been interested in Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, there's currently an unusually good discount—around 40% off—making this one of the cheapest opportunities to buy or pre-order the game. – Manchester Evening News
The August 5 releases – Freshcomics
Large number of Alex Ross "Timeless" variant covers coming – 13th Dimension
The article mentions, is that a Adam West nod in the Black Knight cover art?
Shang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton – "there should've been two sequels already" – Games Radar
The estimate on the total cost of making Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) is somewhere (reportedly) between $250 million to $300 million. The total earnings on the films box office puts it at $432 million. Since half the ticket earnings are typically split with the theatres, the math shows that the gross certainly doesn't show earnings to equal what the film cost. That's the usual reason a film doesn't produce a sequel.
Shang-Chi, though, isn't quite a "flop." The argument could be made that a quality sequel could build audience. Even without a strong earnings profile, a title can spawn a cheap victory lap sequel where the people involved in the earlier film get a second chance to get a bigger paycheck, but with cheaper writing, production and preparation. If the original has a strong core audience, though not big enough for strong grosses, then whoever is holding the rights can cannibalize that audience for a quick and cheap cash grab.
But Shang-Chi is a Disney film, and whether Disney is making something on the cheap or burning through a Jokeresque mountain of cash, they want to always appear to be making something that is burnishing their logo. Shang-Chi probably needs a semi-shlock action film effort to produce a winning sequel, something well outside of the range of Disney.
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