Tag Archives: DC Comics

Marifran O’Neil

When I was working at Jeopardy!, in 1999 we did our first road-trip to New York City, to tape a series of games at Madison Square Garden. At that time, I had been writing a number of letters of comment … Continue reading

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Saturday at San Diego Comic Con 2017

Once again, my budget limited my ability to attend the San Diego Comic Con. Since I couldn’t afford lodgings in San Diego, it was going to have to be a single day trip. That meant rising early and making the … Continue reading

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Comics For Sale (1)

I’ll probably be doing a series of these posts as I go along. I’ve had to give up my storage unit, and I need to thin out my comics collection as a consequence. I’m going to list here on my … Continue reading

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Golden Apple’s Party for the DC New 52 Launch

Golden Apple – the comic shop in Hollywood that has been “my” comic shop for … well, for a long time now – had a party Friday night to mark the end of the massive re-launch that DC Comics undertook … Continue reading

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Talking about Green Lantern

I’ve been in a lot of discussions in the last month or so about the Green Lantern feature film that was released this summer. And since I’m one of those people who sits in the crossroads of comics and movies, … Continue reading

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Long Beach Comic Con 2010 – Sunday

Ooops, so I’m a little late in getting the rest of the con report done.  Pardon me.  But here it is at last. I got rolling in good time Sunday morning and had an easy drive down from Hollywood to … Continue reading

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Robin Hood and Green Arrow

The linked PDF file is the original text of the paper I presented at the First International Conference of Robin Hood Studies, held at Rochester, New York in October 1997. The conference itself was a fun weekend for me. My experience for … Continue reading

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Adventures at WonderCon

It was no joke when I drove up to San Francisco on April 1. Since there was a possibility of rain throughout the middle of California that day, I decided to drive US 101 instead of I-5.  I didn’t want … Continue reading

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New York Tourist, Part Two

My second day in Manhattan, I walked over to Columbus Circle and caught the A Train, to go up to the Cloisters.  My first visit to Manhattan, back in 1999, I had looked at the subway maps, and thought, “Why … Continue reading

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Finally, a report of Wizard World LA

So, here I am, only a few weeks behind the wave, getting around to a brief report of my excursion to Wizard World LA in mid-March. Friday, March 14, I took the day off-work, in order to go down to … Continue reading

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