Welcome to The A.V. Club‘s monthly comics preview, where we recommend new books to check out over the next few weeks. This ...

Comic books are a long-form medium, but there are occasional releases in the industry that feel much more in-line with novels ...

The X-Men are one of Marvel's most beloved teams and these critical comics defined both the unit's history on the page and ...

Marvel in the '80s was firing on all cylinders, and these ten stories are ones that every Marvel fan should read immediately.

Comic books are one of the greatest forms of entertainment ever. Over the years, comic readers have experienced some of the best stories in fiction. Marvel and DC Comics have given readers characters ...

We spoke with three educators about how they’re utilizing comics and graphic novels to create lifelong readers and learners ...

For years (well, three years anyway), a vocal legion of comics readers has been saying that they want to own their files, and they want them DRM-free, not locked into a single app like comiXology (or ...

In the vast landscape of Marvel superpowers, few characters rival the sheer brokenness of The Reader — an Inhuman whose abilities bend the very rules of reality. Unlike the flashy mutants or ...

In 1949, the Sacramento City Council banned the sale of comic books that depict acts such as arson, burglary, murder, torture, mayhem, and assault with caustic chemicals, to be sold to young adults ...

The first-graders at the New Durham School are all about reading. This group of passionate bookworms cannot get enough of one series in particular: "Hooked on Comics."Jackie Benson is a reading ...

Superman's first appearance was in "Action Comics" No. 1, published in 1938. A copy of that comic graded 8.5 was most recently sold in April 2024 by Heritage Auctions for a then-record $6 million.

The California Supreme Court ruled in 1959 that a Los Angeles County policy banning the sale of so-called “crime” comic books ...