Ghosts of Comics’ Past

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Ghosts of Comics’ Past: February in comic history – Destroyer Duck, Distribution, and Ultimate Avengers

By | Feb 13, 2023 | Columns

Multiversity’s history column returns with new coverage of past events. This column, themed around the month of February, will explore the debut of Destroyer Duck, the state of comic distribution in the mid 1990s, and the first Marvel Studios film. February 1982 In late 1973, Steve Gerber introduced Howard the Duck in the pages of […]

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Ghosts of Comics’ Past: 1933

By | Feb 6, 2023 | Columns

Multiversity’s history column returns with another installment of year-by-year analysis of the comic industry. Following our earlier coverage of 1932, today’s article on 1933 will be focused mainly on the first modern comic books. In 1932, the Connecticut-based Eastern Color Printing Company experimented with a new reduction method that shrank Sunday comic strips to 7 […]

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Ghosts of Comics’ Past: January in Comic History – MMMS and bargain prices

By | Jan 23, 2023 | Columns

Multiversity’s history column returns with a new installment covering events from January 1965 (Marvel’s first fan club) and 2002/2003 (rise and fall of bargain-priced comics). January 1965 Stan Lee had been working to establish a connection with readers since March 1962, when he asked letter writers sending missives to “Fantastic Four” to drop the “Dear […]

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Ghosts of Comics’ Past: 1883, 1893, 1903, & 1913

By | Jan 16, 2023 | Columns

Multiversity’s history column celebrates the start of 2023 by resetting the clock on our year-by-year chronology of the comic industry. Today, we’ll dive deep into the past to examine the evolutionary ancestors of our favorite modern reading material. Let’s start with one of the oldest sequential narratives… 113 Romans were known for their architecture, and […]

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Ghosts of Comics’ Past: 2012

By | Dec 5, 2022 | Columns

Multiversity’s history column reaches the end of its annual cycle this week with a look at the comic industry just 10 years ago, in 2012. You can get prepped for today’s column by reviewing the coverage of 2010 and 2011, then come back in January when we reset the clock for a look back at […]

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Ghosts of Comics’ Past: 2002

By | Nov 21, 2022 | Columns

Multiversity’s history column returns with a new installment of its year-by-year retelling of comic book history. Today we’ll be looking at 2002, building on the events of 2000 and 2001. Comic books were being elevated in the public mind thanks to the success of the X-Men film, anticipation for the Spider-Man film, and other comic […]

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Ghosts of Comics’ Past: November in Comic History – Infantino, “Marvels,” and “Serenity”

By | Nov 7, 2022 | Columns

Multiversity’s history column returns with three new items from the annals of comic history, all themed around the month of November. Enjoy! November 1967 By 1967, it was clear that Marvel was gaining market share at the expense of long-dominant DC. That didn’t sit well with DC, prompting some heavy introspection. DC’s publisher, Irwin Donenfeld, […]

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Ghosts of Comics’ Past: 1992

By | Oct 17, 2022 | Columns

Multiversity’s history column returns with another installment of our year-by-year look at the comic industry. Today we hit 1992, and man… What a year! I’ve already covered several of the minor milestones in previous columns, but I could easily expand this into a multi-part saga. Instead, I’ll just try provide a general overview today. Look […]

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