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The Work Of Video Game Composer Ray Mabry

These are stage Themes That I have created for various Street Fighter and Virtua... more

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Marvel Comics: Captain America Says Tea Parties Are Dangerous and Racist!!! WTF???

Marvel Comic’s Captain America is the mightiest soldier with the super powerful... more

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7 supervillians who should rule the world

Do we really want the world in the hands of a supervillain? Maybe ... see some of the... more

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Official: Disney's takeover of Marvel approved

Marvel Entertianment has approved an 'Agreement and Plan of Merger' with the... more

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Disney might cash-in on unknown Marvel characters

According to reports, Disney might cash-in on lesser known characters in the Marvel... more

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'Captain America' To Start Filming in June?

Marvel Studios’ “Captain America” movie may finally be heading in... more

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That Fancy New Iron Man 2 Trailer...By The Numbers

After checking out the trailer on Apple, why not see how it measures up by the... more

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[Trailer] “Iron Man 2″ Trailer Footage (...and a surprise)

Trailer footage at the link and maybe a little extra...

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Marvel announces Girl Comics

Marvel has announced Girl Comics, a three-issue anthology super-hero miniseries,... more

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David Maisel to step down as Marvel Studios Chair

David Maisel will be stepping down as chairman of Marvel Entertainment when Disney... more

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Surprisingly, there's going to be a Marvel theme park... in Dubai

Costing around $1bn for construction, this is just one of the concept pictures for a... more

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Marvel for iPhone

Marvel are now offering a subscription service for iPhone, iPod Touch and PSP users,... more

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Marvel Heroes: How they square-off against each other

The Marvel Heroes have come and gone over the past few years; some have successfully... more

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Apple Tablet Will Restore Comic Books To Former Glory

"What is it in France they say? 'America contributed three things to... more

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Halloween ideas? How about a Marvel superhero ski mask

This is one of six ski masks inspired by the characters of the Marvel universe.... more

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Deadpool Live Action

Producer Lauren Shuler Donner has been talking about the upcoming live action Deadpool... more

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The bittersweet legacy of Jack Kirby

"You’d be hard-pressed to find a recent comic book that didn’t have the stylish scrawl of the artists somewhere on the cover, but that was not the case when Jack Kirby was making pop culture history back in the 1960s with his wildly kinetic drawings of the X-Men, Hulk and the Fantastic Four. “I think I have a highly unique and unusual style, and that’s the reason I never sign my drawings,” the proud Kirby told an interviewer in 1987, seven years before his death. “Everybody could tell any of my covers a mile away on the newsstand, and that satisfied me.”

The satisfaction was fleeting. The artist may be reverently referred to as “King” Kirby by the pop scholars and younger artists who celebrate his genre-defining work but Kirby is, in some ways, an overlooked figure in the broader view of American culture. He didn’t live to see his creations fly across the movie screen over the last decade and his four children made nothing from those lucrative films, although they are now pursuing legal action to claim some of the future Hollywood wealth. “There is,” daughter Lisa Kirby says, “a bittersweet legacy to my father’s work.”

On a recent afternoon, in Beverly Hills, a different man was autographing a giant lithograph reproducing one of Kirby’s classic Fantastic Four covers. It was Stan Lee, the writer who was Kirby’s most famous collaborator until they became estranged over creative credit, artwork custody and money. An art dealer had brought stacks of limited-edition lithos, some to be priced at $850, to Lee’s Santa Monica Boulevard office along with a check in his pocket to pay the 86-year-old Lee for his autographs.

Lee had written the stories for the classic comics, of course, but considering all the history, it was still odd to see his name etched on the cosmic Kirby tableau from 1966.

“Yes, there was a time when there was some hard feeling on his part ... but he got over that and we were friends,” Lee said. “It really is sad that he didn’t get to see all the big movies. None of us could predict that we would get to this point with the films. I don’t dwell on it too much because I’m always so busy doing what I am doing today. Unfortunately the guys back in the day did not make as much as they do today. Years ago also you had artists doing these comics who, well, there was nothing else they could have done. Their style wasn’t right for advertising or magazines like Saturday Evening Post or Collier’s. And as for us writers, well, we weren’t qualified to write for the New Yorker. Comic book writers were considered hacks, and artists weren’t really thought of as much beyond that.”

Lee studied one of the other art pieces, a dazzling revisiting of a Kirby cover for Captain America. "Wow, look at this one." The pieces are being sold by the Santa Monica gallery called Every Picture Tells a Story as part of a new licensing deal with Marvel to create high-end wall art from illustrations that were, in their day, the most gaudy and disposable entertainment imaginable. “As far as I’m concerned,” Lee said with his endless zeal, “it is fine art."

The story of two “hacks,” as Lee would frame it, will be scrutinized much more considering recent events. Last month, the Walt Disney Co. paid $4 billion to scoop up Marvel Entertainment and its vault of florid characters who over the last decade have become Hollywood box-office heroes. Many of the most valuable properties in that vault were created by the wildly prolific tandem of Lee and Kirby in the 1960s; there are two big-budget movies now in the pipeline for Marvel Studios that are based on Lee-Kirby creations (“The Mighty Thor" and “The Avengers”) and a third (“First Avenger: Captain America”) based on the work of Kirby and writer Joe Simon. The Kirby brood watched the Disney deal happen and within days were conferring with new attorneys."

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Iron Man 2 Set Visit

Entertainment Tonight posted online the video of the set visit of Iron Man 2, you may... more

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Iron Man 2 Sneak Preview

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