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Writers and Artists 

RIP Stan Lee, the comics publisher whose love for New York City inspired Marvel’s most iconic heroes

November 13, 2018November 13, 2018 Bowery Boys 3062 Views 0 Comments comic books, Marvel Comics, publishing, Stan Lee

Stan Lee, who died yesterday at age 95, will live forever. The iconic characters that he helped develop for Marvel

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Neighborhoods Pop Culture 

Downtown Heroes: How Greenwich Village became an unlikely locale for the Marvel Comics universe

April 30, 2018June 27, 2019 Bowery Boys 6213 Views 0 Comments comic books, Greenwich Village, magicians

NOTE: This post contains minor location spoilers for the film Avengers: Infinity War, but steers clear of any big plot

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Pop Culture 

The Bowery Boys at New York Comic Con: Talking the history of comics and the legacy of Jack Kirby

September 28, 2017October 3, 2017 Bowery Boys 4047 Views 0 Comments comic books, Nat Towson

The Bowery Boys’ Greg Young, an aficionado of comic strip and comic book history, will be appearing at two events

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Podcasts Pop Culture 

Super City: New York and the History of Comic Books

July 24, 2015May 10, 2019 Bowery Boys 5916 Views 7 Comments Central Park, comic books, Foley Square, Joseph Pulitzer, Little Italy, Newspaper Row, newspapers, Park Row, publishing, William Randolph Hearst, WNYC

PODCAST  A history of the comic book industry in New York City, how the energy and diversity of the city

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Bowery Boys 

The Bowery Boys and Marvel Comics! Plus: Guardian Angels and a special holiday surprise on Christmas

December 23, 2014January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 1991 Views 0 Comments A Most Violent Year, Bowery Boys, comic books, Guardian Angels

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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Bowery Boys Bookshelf 

The location of the X-Men’s home and its dark historical secret

May 23, 2014June 20, 2019 Bowery Boys 5419 Views 0 Comments comic books, Westchester County

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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Brooklyn History 

The horror of moving to Brooklyn — from a 1905 comic strip

March 25, 2014January 14, 2015 Bowery Boys 4478 Views 0 Comments Brooklyn, comic books, Flatiron Building, New York Herald

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! New York’s Madison Avenue connection to CBS’s original broadcast of ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’

December 6, 2012January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 1948 Views 0 Comments CBS, comic books, How New York Saved Christmas, New York Daily News, New York Public Library, Rockefeller Center

The first time: A TV Guide advertisement from 1965 announcing the upcoming Charlie Brown special, “presented … by the people

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Holidays 

Good grief! Madison Avenue’s connection to ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’

December 6, 2012December 9, 2015 Bowery Boys 2180 Views 3 Comments CBS, comic books, How New York Saved Christmas, New York Daily News, New York Public Library, Rockefeller Center

The first time: A TV Guide advertisement from 1965 announcing the upcoming Charlie Brown special, “presented … by the people

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Pop Culture 

Your friendly neighborhood tour guide: New York as seen through 50 years of Amazing Spider-Man comic book covers

July 4, 2012July 4, 2015 Bowery Boys 1811 Views 5 Comments comic books, Spider-man

Today is the fifth birthday of this blog, which modestly began on July 4, 2007 and has grown more steadily

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Uncategorized 

The Avengers Disassemble the MetLife Building

May 9, 2012July 12, 2019 Bowery Boys 7042 Views 3 Comments chrysler building, comic books, Grand Central Terminal, Pan Am Building, Park Avenue

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

July 27, 2011January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 3333 Views 3 Comments Classic Literature, comic books, Lower East Side

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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Bowery-Boys-Book-Cover-R6--revised Our first-ever Bowery Boys book, "Adventures in Old New York" is now out in bookstores! A time-traveling journey into a past that lives simultaneously besides the modern city.

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