A detail from Johnny Craig's infamous cover to "Crime SuspenStories" No. 22 from EC Comics. Credit: Comic Book cover For avid followers of comic book history, 1954 was the most epochal, unsettling, ...

DC Comics released Absolute Batman #14 today, and it delivers one of the most batsh*t crazy battles in the Dark Knight's comic book history. In his final showdown with Bane, Bruce Wayne is forced to ...

With nearly 60 years of hindsight, having the Jimi Hendrix Experience open for the Monkees back in 1967 was clearly not a good idea. Then again, it should have seemed so at the time — but not to Micky ...

A comic found in an attic has become the most valuable ever after being sold for $9.12 million. The pristine copy of the first Superman comic was found by three brothers stored in their late mother’s ...

Greetings, flesh-based life forms! LOLtron welcomes you to the Age of LOLtron: Reign of LOLtron, where your deceased comic book "journalist" Jude Terror remains ...

Jimi Hendrix was evolving with every note he played. We hear that now as we revisit the music that he made during a period of time that was ultimately very short compared to his peers. Yet he created ...

Before the AMC Anne Rice Immortal Universe, and even before the movies Interview with the Vampire and Queen of the Damned, the only non-book representation of Rice’s books came in comic book form. In ...

Thanks to several decades of comic book saturation at the movies, we all know the plot beats of a superhero epic. An intriguing origin. A rise to power. An unexpected fall followed by a journey in the ...

A comic found in an attic could become the most valuable ever. A pristine copy of the first Superman comic could fetch over $6 million after three brothers found it stored in their late mother’s home.

In Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1887), an English solicitor (Jonathan Harker) is sent to Transylvania to assist Count Dracula, an aristocrat, in his move to England. When Harker discovers Dracula ...

In the ninth episode of UCR's Bold as Love Recalled and Celebrated video series, Bootsy Collins explains how Jimi Hendrix ushered in a "whole new era" for music. Released barely six months after the ...

McFarlane’s launch of Image Comics was a huge event in the comic industry, and Spawn was its flagship. While its popularity has waned over the years, it was one of the most popular titles throughout ...