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Howard the Duck is one of the weirdest Marvel Comics heroes of all time, and he has a villain who is even stranger. It has been 51 years since Howard the Duck got his own solo comic book series, and it wasn’t long before his rogues’ gallery began to form. Originally, Steve Gerber and Val…

Less than one hundred copies of 1943’s Wonder Woman #6, the first appearance of Cheetah, exist. And of those, less than thirty are in condition like this copy on auction. For DC Comics fans, the hardest thing about collecting is that many of the publisher’s most iconic, long-lived characters debuted more than eight years ago,…

DC Comics is full of fictional cities, with two of them becoming huge in pop culture – Metropolis and Gotham City. Metropolis is the city of the future, a shining beacon of everything people could build if we work together. It’s a cool place we all want to live but if we’re being honest, we…

Jaalen Best in The Greatest. Photograph: Brooke Palmer/PrimeJaalen Best in The Greatest. Photograph: Brooke Palmer/Prime Review

This combination of photos shows promotional art for “The Greatest,” from left, “The Good Daughter,” and “The Remarried Empress.”(Prime/Peacock/Hulu

“Avengers: Doomsday” appears to be (loosely) adapting the comic arc “Avengers: Time Runs Out,” where the heroes of the Marvel universe struggle against “Incursions” tearing apart reality. As “Time Runs Out” did, “Doomsday” will lead into “Secret Wars,” where Victor von Doom (Robert Downey Jr.) has reassembled the fragments of a broken multiverse into a…

Before Jon Favreau helped kick off the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Iron Man, he played a different Marvel character that’s integral to another hero’s legacy. In 2003, Favreau played Franklin “Foggy” Nelson, Matt Murdock’s best friend and law partner in Daredevil, which starred Ben Affleck as the Man Without Fear. The film came out in…

DC’s Absolute Universe has reinvented the wheel with its experimental take on the comics’ iconic superheroes like Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. The comics are filled with iconic imagery, but the artists have now paid the ultimate tribute to the popular anime movie, Akira. The latest cover for Absolute Wonder Woman pays homage to the…

The fourth season of Julian Fellowes’ addictive period drama picks up soon after the previous season ended and answers some burning, melodramatic questions. Will the nouveau riche George Russell (Morgan Spector), having moved out of their ostentatious mansion, go home to his manipulative social-climbing wife, Bertha (Carrie Coon)? Will the pedigreed Agnes van Rhijn (Christine…

With sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse currently wowing audiences, Kambole Campbell reflects on a superhero series that, with its magnificent visuals, truly honours its