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World’s Largest Trivia Contest turns to The Dark Side

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Brent Frankenhoff

It’s springtime again and time for The World’s Largest Trivia Contest, a 54-hour competition in Stevens Point, Wis., that benefits the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point radio station. This year’s theme is “The Dark Side of the Contest” with a logo … See More

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Save some green on St. Patrick’s Day — Sale Extended!

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Brent Frankenhoff

Save some green this St. Patrick’s Day! Get an amazing 17% off great book and digital titles at shop.collect.com using the promo code IRISH17. Save some green already! (Some exclusions do apply.) Related Posts:No Related Posts

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Getting It Covered (CBG #1665, May 2010)

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Brent Frankenhoff

CBG Senior Editor Maggie Thompson looks at different types of comics covers in her Beautiful Balloons column in CBG #1665 (May 2010). Click here to download a color PDF of the piece. Related Posts:No Related Posts

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Recycled cover gags

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Brent Frankenhoff

Mr. Silver Age has had fun with this topic before and I just stumbled across a pair of Miss America covers, specifically Vol. 7 #44 (Mar 52) and Vol. 7 #64 (1954), which essentially have the same gag. Enjoy! Related … See More

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Just Saying … (Beautiful Balloons, CBG #1664, April 2010)

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Brent Frankenhoff

CBG Senior Editor Maggie Thompson looks at various types of lettering in her Beautiful Balloons column in CBG #1664 (April 2010). You can download a color PDF of the column here. Related Posts:No Related Posts

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Super-power to the people! (Beautiful Ballons, CBG #1663, March 2010)

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Brent Frankenhoff

With the annual CBG Fan Award nominations in full swing, CBG Senior Editor Maggie Thompson devoted most of her Beautiful Balloons column in CBG #1663 to the history of those awards, in which fans nominate and vote for their favorite … See More

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Comics panels that make you go ewwww!

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Brent Frankenhoff

In The Atom backup story, “The Treacherous Time-Trap!,” published in Detective Comics #368 (Oct 67), The Tiny Titan meets The Elongated Man and asks for his help in escaping from Chronos’ clock-based trap. E.M.’s ductile nature comes into play in … See More

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They’re Just Comic Books (Beautiful Balloons, CBG #1662, Feb 2010)

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Brent Frankenhoff

Click here to download a color PDF of CBG Senior Editor Maggie Thompson’s column covering the history of graphic novels from CBG #1662 (Feb 2010). Related Posts:No Related Posts

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAGGIE!

Posted on November 29, 2009 by Tony Isabella

Happy birthday, Maggie, and thanks for your decades of friendship. Here’s wishing you a terrific day and many many more great years to come. Tony Related Posts:No Related Posts

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Blast from the Past: Chicago Comic-Con posters (CBG #1661, January 2010)

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Brent Frankenhoff

As promised in the letters column of Comics Buyer’s Guide #1661 (January 2010), here are five posters from the Chicago Comic-Con. In a response to a letter from R.C. Harvey, I wrote that I acquired these five posters from the … See More

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