RIP Stan Lee, the comics publisher whose love for New York City inspired Marvel’s most iconic heroes
Stan Lee, who died yesterday at age 95, will live forever. The iconic characters that he helped develop for Marvel
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Downtown Heroes: How Greenwich Village became an unlikely locale for the Marvel Comics universe
NOTE: This post contains minor location spoilers for the film Avengers: Infinity War, but steers clear of any big plot
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The Bowery Boys at New York Comic Con: Talking the history of comics and the legacy of Jack Kirby
The Bowery Boys’ Greg Young, an aficionado of comic strip and comic book history, will be appearing at two events
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Super City: New York and the History of Comic Books
PODCAST A history of the comic book industry in New York City, how the energy and diversity of the city
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The Bowery Boys and Marvel Comics! Plus: Guardian Angels and a special holiday surprise on Christmas
THIS WEEK IN MARVEL The Bowery Boys are guest stars on this week’s official Marvel Comics podcast This Week In
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The location of the X-Men’s home and its dark historical secret
The next time you read an X-Men comic book or see one of their blockbuster films, remember that the whole
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The horror of moving to Brooklyn — from a 1905 comic strip
Above: Food can do strange things to you at night: an excerpt from McCay’s January 7, 1905 strip, published two
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Good grief! Madison Avenue’s connection to ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’
The first time: A TV Guide advertisement from 1965 announcing the upcoming Charlie Brown special, “presented … by the people
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Good grief! New York’s Madison Avenue connection to CBS’s original broadcast of ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’
The first time: A TV Guide advertisement from 1965 announcing the upcoming Charlie Brown special, “presented … by the people
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Your friendly neighborhood tour guide: New York as seen through 50 years of Amazing Spider-Man comic book covers
Today is the fifth birthday of this blog, which modestly began on July 4, 2007 and has grown more steadily
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The Avengers Disassemble the MetLife Building
Fare thee well, you who we once called the Pan Am. We hardly knew thee. Image from Comic Book Movie
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Super Local: Captain America and New York’s other heroes
A 1940s antique store carries more than dusty lamps in the summer superhero film, ‘Captain America: The First Avenger,” which transplants
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