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I was feeling romantic, so for my latest edition of Gimmick or Good? at the Comics Should Be Good blog I put the spotlight on the all-white embossed cover of 1996’s Superman the Wedding Album. This issue, which featured a who’s who of comic book creators on script and

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With the “All-New Marvel Now” Wolverine series starting up this week (with art from our old friend Ryan Stegman), I thought I’d take a look at the Ol’ Canucklehead’s very first 1990s “gimmick” cover, Wolverine #50, by Larry Hama and Marc Silvestri. This comic features die-cut “file folder” with

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UPDATE: The second past of my Hobgoblin story is live on Comic Book Resources. As regular readers of this site should note, I have a bit of a Hobgoblin obsession. So much so that former Spider-book editor Jim Salicrup told me that I was acting like the backstory of

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If you haven’t yet checked out the brand new Superior Spider-Talk.com web site, I recommend that you do so right away. Now, that you’ve done that, please check out my inaugural edition of a regular feature I’m going to write for the site, “It Feels Like the First Time.”

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With DC recently celebrating the 75th anniversary of the first appearance of Batman (in Detective Comics #27), I thought I’d look at the very first gimmick-enhanced edition of the Detective series as part of my Gimmick or Good series at Comics Should Be Good. 1994’s Detective #675 features a chromium

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As “Forever Evil” remains the focal point for the DC Universe, in my most recent “Gimmick or Good?” entry at Comics Should Be Good, I look at 1993’s Eclipso The Darkness Within #1. This comic was notorious for featuring a plastic “diamond” on the cover. In terms of 90s

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The latest installment of my Gimmick or Good? column at the Comics Should Be Good blog returns me to my Spider-Man roots and is yet another instance where I revisit the “Clone Saga” despite my initial hatred for the arc. In this post, I examine the lenticular-covered Sensational Spider-Man

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The latest installment of my ongoing column at Comics Should Be Good that focuses on comics from the 1990s with gimmick covers (Gimmick or Good?) takes a look at the “Heroes Reborn” reboot of Marvel’s first family, Fantastic Four, by Jim Lee and Brandon Choi. In 1996, Marvel famously

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After a brief hiatus, my Gimmick or Good? column at Comics Should Be Good is back with a look back at 1993’s The Maxx #1, with pencils, inks and plot by Sam Kieth and script by William Messner-Loebs. For the uninitiated, Gimmick or Good is a recurring feature I write

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Is there something going on with Thor this weekend that’s led me to write about him on three different sites? Hmm…. anyway, if you’re not burned out on the Norse God of Thunder, check out my latest Gimmick or Good? column at the mighty Comics Should Be Good. This

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