As fans everywhere wring their hands in anticipation for the silver screen debut of “the merc with a mouth,” it’d be poor form to overlook comics’ first true metahuman mercenary (not to mention the alleged inspiration for the marvelous competition’s killer cash cow): Deathstroke the Terminator. Created in 1980 by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez for […]
It’s the End of an Era, and not just in the “really-not really” way that comic book publishers always say: National Allied Publications put out New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine #1 in 1934. Since that time, through various addresses and name changes, the company that came to be called D.C. Comics has been based […]