Comic Books

Paul Kupperberg on December 3rd, 2008


Hey, what’d you know…my 100th post (thanks to pal Rob Kelly over at the Aquaman Shrine for the idea of using the above cover to illustrate it…why would I think of such a thing, just ’cause I wrote the comic–well, co-wrote, with Paul Levitz–and a 3-D diorama of the lovely Joe Staton/Dick Giordano cover sits about two and a half feet from my desk) in the form of Part 2 of the Wonder Woman essay:

What Is So Hard About Wonder Woman?!
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Paul Kupperberg on November 30th, 2008

Late last year, I ghost-wrote an essay for a book about action-adventure TV shows for a writer friend who was behind the 8-ball and called for volunteers on the writers list we’re on to help him out of his jam. Here’s the first half:

What Is So Hard About Wonder Woman?!
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Paul Kupperberg on August 25th, 2008

Since I ran Part 1 and Part 2 of this unpublished Steel Sterling story the previous two Mondays, I decided it’s only fair to wrap it up this week. Just click on a page to view it at a readable size.… Read the rest

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Paul Kupperberg on August 19th, 2008

My hard drive is full of bits and pieces of incomplete stories, novels, characters, bits and ideas. Some of them will never go anywhere, some will wind up cannibalized and used elsewhere, and others are far enough along that I really have no excuse not to do something with them…like, maybe, finish them.… Read the rest

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Paul Kupperberg on August 18th, 2008

Last Monday, I posted the first of three unpublished 5-page back-up comic book stories starring superhero Steel Sterling, written by myself and drawn by Gene Ha for the relaunch of DC’s 1990s Impact Comics line. Today, the second part. Just click on a page to view it at a readable size:

STEEL STERLING-Part 2
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Paul Kupperberg on August 11th, 2008

Back in the 1990s, DC briefly licensed from Archie Comics their line of superheroes (the Fly, Jaguar, Black Hood, etc.) and published them, unsuccessfully, as the Impact Comics line. At some point, the line was canceled and a new editorial team was suppose to fix ’em and relaunch them.… Read the rest

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Paul Kupperberg on August 2nd, 2008

An excerpt from a work in progress, Same Old Story, a murder mystery set in the early 1950s world of the comic book business. Guy Dooley and the narrator, Max Wiser, are writers who have just learned the several of the publishers they write for are going under and have hit the streets in search of new work.… Read the rest

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