Text Feature

Paul Kupperberg on July 31st, 2018

We come to the last of the U.K. London Editions Superman Official Album text stories (the last that I’ve got, at least), this one from 1986. It’s “Testing Times for Superman,” written by Pete Milligan and illustrated by Mike Collins and Mark Farmer.… Read the rest

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Paul Kupperberg on July 28th, 2018

Another text tale from the U.K., this one first appearing in the 1986 hardcover Superman Official Album, published by London Books. Nestled among three 1970s Legion of Super-Heroes and Superman stories written by Cary Bates were two prose stories, starting with this one by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Barry Kitson and Jeff Anderson!… Read the rest

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Paul Kupperberg on July 19th, 2018

Text features used to be a thing in comic books. Not just letter columns or chatty behind-the-scenes pieces like you get today, but actual short prose stories (often illustrated) starring the characters featured in the title. Stan Lee’s first published story was a Captain America prose story in that title’s third issue in 1941.… Read the rest

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