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The team behind Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day wasn’t just inspired by the wall-crawler’s vast comic book library; they expertly recreated some of Spider-Man’s most iconic covers for the film. Let’s dive into some of the covers referenced in the movie and learn more about the comic book histories of the Spidey villains making the jump…

The eternal battle between superheroes and supervillains defines the entire superhero genre and has been the source of countless stories. In both DC and Marvel Comics, heroes constantly fight to protect the innocent and uphold the law against immoral villains. However, not every confrontation between a costumed crimefighter and criminal ends in violence. In fact,…

Throughout the history of stories, a routine phrase has been that “a hero is only as good as their villains.” In the world of comic books, the likes of Superman, Spider-Man, and Batman are beguiled by interesting foes such as Lex Luthor, Venom, and the Joker, for example. The anime world is no different in…

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The Masters of Evil have achieved one thing that almost no other regular villain team has accomplished. This is the team that actually beat the Avengers and almost brought them to their knees. The villain team debuted in 1964 when Nazi scientist Baron Heinrich Zemo conceived them as a dark mirror to the Avengers. The…

Disney Villains: Ursula #5 hits stores Wednesday! Will Ursula claim Triton’s trident, or will her evil sisters seize ultimate oceanic power?

A superhero is only as good as their supervillain, and in these five comic book movies, the villains outshone everyone else in a big way. Tons of villains from Marvel, DC, and beyond are just as iconic as Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man, meaning that studios have to meet a high bar when adapting them for…

Earlier this summer, Berserk finally returned to the world of manga after almost a year in limbo. Luckily, the comeback wasted little time in completely changing the world of Guts and the Band of the Hawk. In chapters 384 and 385, readers learned much more about the Black Swordsman, his origins, and how his ties…

Image Comics has some villains whose power makes many in Marvel and DC pale in comparison. In 1992, several high-profile artists broke away from Marvel Comics and founded Image Comics, a company where they published creator-owned properties where they kept all copyrights. The three creators who launched the company included Todd McFarlane (Spider-Man), Rob Liefeld…

The Batman villains of the 1970s had a lot of work to do when it came to defining the character for a new generation. When the 1970s started, Batman had become an almost kitsch character in pop culture thanks to the television series with Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin. While things…