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June 25, 2014

Comics: The Legacy of Thanos

June 25, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

The super-villain glimpsed at the end of the mega-hit "Avengers" movie casts a long shadow in the comic books where he was born - a new Marvel Comics graphic novel fills in some of the blanks

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December 04, 2013

Comics: Thor - War of the Pantheons

December 04, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

One of the first volumes of a new color reprint series from Marvel Comics features some high-flying adventures by the summer's superhero star, the mighty Thor!

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March 15, 2013

Comics: Avengers Versus Thanos

March 15, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

Before the mad demi-titan Thanos arrives to menace movie theaters in 2015, he menaced the good guys in decades of comics - a new anthology collects some of the best of the bad guy

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February 16, 2013

Comics: Thor the Mighty Avenger

February 16, 2013/ Open Letters Monthly

A new collection featuring the adventures of a decidedly off-beat version of Marvel's resident Thunder God

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February 15, 2013

Comics: Marvel First - WWII Superheroes

February 15, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The Angel - the Silver Scorpion - the Destroyer - the Black Marvel - the Blazing Skull: not exactly household names today, but in the dark days of World War II, they fought the forces of evil for the entertainment of a new kind of reader: comic book fans

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January 18, 2013

Comics: Essential X-Men 11

January 18, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

Marvel's X-Men reprint series reaches some epoch-defining issues

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November 04, 2012

Comics: X-Men - The Hidden Years, Volume 2

November 04, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The 'lost' adventures of Marvel Comics' original team of mutant superheroes, the X-Men

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October 08, 2012

Comics: Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut

October 08, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Vultures, black cats, and a gigantic, unbeatable foe: it's a week in the life of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!

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August 23, 2012

Now in Paperback: Fear Itself

August 23, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

In one of Marvel Comics' grandest recent story-arcs, the Avengers square off against the Norse god of fear and his mind-controlled hammer-wielding henchmen

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August 2012, comics, john romita jr, marvel comics
May 03, 2012

Comics: The Children's Crusade

May 03, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Not-quite-brothers search for their not-quite-mother in this colorful mini-series, now in a hardcover collection

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April 26, 2012

Comics: Essential Avengers Volume 8

April 26, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

the latest black-and-white omnibus collection of the adventures of Marvel Comics' super-team par excellence, The Mighty Avengers

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April 2012, comic books, george perez, jim shooter, marvel comics
March 05, 2012

Now in Paperback: A Princess of Mars

March 05, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Edgar Rice Burroughs' debut John Carter novel, "A Princess of Mars," gets a vivid new comic book adaptation

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January 25, 2012

Comics: Fear Itself

January 25, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The god of fear comes to Earth intent on stomping all over Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and company

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December 02, 2011

Classics Reissued: Avengers Forever

December 02, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

The mighty Avengers - past, present, and yet to come - team up with Kang the Conqueror to save the present from the marauding future. Dramamine not included.

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May 31, 2011

Graphic Novel Review: The Marvels Project

May 31, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

Unfamiliar characters like the Angel, the Phantom Bullet, and John Steele join the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America in the birth of the Marvel Age of Super-Heroes

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May 16, 2011

Book Review: The Mighty Thor by Walter Simonson

May 16, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

The fabled Walter Simonson issues of "The Mighty Thor" are finally collected in one massive volume - and they've never looked better.

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