Sean Kleefeld
If you've read my blog for any length of time, you're probably aware that I'm an old school Fantastic Four fan. Even when I'm not talking about the book explicitly, it's been something of a background topic that I've used to launch into something else. I started reading the series when I was 11...
Sean Kleefeld
In part because folks are still recovering from Comic-Con and not paying attention to me but in part because it's still just generally busy here at Kleefeld Headquarters, I'm going to pull out an article I wrote a decade or two back concerning how the Fantastic Four have been portrayed in media...
Victor de la Cruz
San Diego Comic-Con 2026 is done and dusted. As usual, there was a lot of new announcements and reveals during the event. But, of course, the highlight was the Marvel panel. This is when they break the news about their upcoming projects and there were some major ones, like the revelation of reboot...
Sean Kleefeld
We're in the back half of July, which means that we'll inevitably start seeing some people making note of the anniversary of the Fantastic Four (and therefore Marvel Comics in general) on August 8th. Supposedly, this is because many people claim August 8, 1961 as THE day that Fantastic Four #1...
Sean Kleefeld
So a bit of news from Marvel yesterday, right? Stephen Wacker will be taking over as editor-in-chief, C.B. Cebulski will begin overseeing a new division of "APAC-originated graphic fiction and manga, based in Japan," and the Marvel Comics headquarters is being moved from New York City to Burbank,...
Sean Kleefeld
The cover image here is the first variant cover from The Fantastic Four and I think it might be the first variant cover from Marvel. Although it wasn't an intentional one! The story, from 1971, is fairly unremarkable relative to other issues for a good stretch both before and after it. Stan Lee...
Sean Kleefeld
Speaking, as I was yesterday, about the 1960s Fantastic Four, there has been, for many years, a big debate on how much Stan Lee contributed to the early Marvel output versus Jack Kirby. Some say Lee did the bulk of the work and Jack was just a hired hand to illustrate Lee's vision; others think...
Sean Kleefeld
Tom Hanks first drew a lot of attention in the sitcom Bosom Buddies back in 1980 before making a very successful transition to movies with Ron Howard's directorial debut of Splash. Hanks has since had an incredible career with everything from the Academy Award winning Forest Gump to the...
Scott VanderPloeg
The days of a single neat and tidy solicitation for all publishers are gone. Individual publishers’ listings will be posted on a monthly basis as I discover them, either from their websites or catalogues. One new Artist’s Edition from Act 4 Publishing. Beta Ray Bill by Daniel Warren Johnson...