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The Justice League is widely known as the greatest superhero team of all time, with a stellar roster of DC Comics’ mightiest heroes. The League’s popularity, along with its 1960 debut, ensured that almost every other comic company looked to it for inspiration when developing its own teams. Across Marvel, Image, Dynamite, and other companies,…

This past week, a “Blue-nami” swept across the United States, ushering in a deluge of new Democratic governors, senators, and representatives. Many of them aspire to be champions of truth, justice, and the American way, but Nathan Johnsonhas a more literal connection to superheroics. Before becoming the newest attorney general of Texas, he was a…

Iron Man will forever be a beloved entry to the MCU. It’s just a good movie, even outside of the MCU context, and it helped kick off one of the biggest franchises in movie history while also revitalizing the career of the always-fantastic Robert Downey Jr. The later Iron Man films would be a bit…

Marvel’s street-level heroes may have just found their biggest stage yet. A new report suggests a beloved superhero team from Marvel Television’s Netflix era will make the jump to the big screen.

Like Batman and Robin or the chocolate and peanut butter in the candies you’ve probably been snacking on throughout this spookiest of seasons, superheroes and Halloween are a perfect dynamic duo. The holiday’s traditions — costumes, masks, villainous supernatural entities, and the gathering of one’s friends — naturally lend themselves to dramatic double entendre within…

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DC Comics created the superhero and Marvel Comics refined it, leading to the version that we have today. Superheroes first became a part of pop culture during the days of World War II, becoming a right of passage of sorts for children of all ages. In other countries, sequential storytelling would be used for a…

Given comics as a long-running medium, both DC and Marvel have their share of heroes who outgrew how they were initially introduced. Batman’s original Robin, Dick Grayson, is the perfect example of this — a hero who was given a new codename and look when he outgrew his original appearance — from his updated costume…

Marvel has spent years turning its strangest comic book ideas into blockbuster entertainment. Gods, monsters, talking raccoons, and a guy who can shrink himself have all found an audience. But back in the 1970s, bringing superheroes to television was a much trickier business. Special effects were limited, budgets weren’t exactly enormous, and not every comic…

Naming a baby after someone you personally admire is a long-standing and sweet tradition. The option opens up the list of namesake possibilities: You could honor a beloved grandparent or uncle, or use the name of a character you loved from an ’80s or ’90s comfort-TV show (Dorothy! Jesse! Phoebe! Carlton!). But why stop there when…