Various News Stories Rounded Up

* rare art including pages from Avengers #1 turns up, supposedly purchased at a garage sale. Any way you look at it, this is an odd story. Because the art was reported as stolen from the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, the police are involved. I have no idea if this is true of the art in question, but a lot of early Marvel art has "stolen" as part of its transactional legacy long before the Dallas-Fort Worth airport might have been involved.

* the secret origin of the secret origin of the new Batwoman, a one-time recipient of a PR bonanza who's so secret now you never hear about her. Surfing the PR of an event with positive ramifications for gay people and then burying that event/character/plotline later on, whether intentionally or unintentionally, is such a part of the American corporate entertainment landscape it would probably have a name except nothing sticks around long enough to give it one. Then again, it's not like it's been five years since her debut, so the character is hardly beyond reclamation, and it's not like DC needs another low-selling comic book.

* so I'm guessing they basically took the super-stuff out of the film adaptation of Mark Millar's Wanted?

* the first issue of Comic Foundry will hit the stands this week; the comics lifestyle magazine had at one point run afoul of Diamond's distribution system before they reconsidered and relented. Jog and Johanna Draper Carlson review. According to advance copies of the magazine, the publication will go quarterly in 2008.

* for some reason, I found Neil Gaiman's reading of Bob Kanigher-era Phantom Stranger comics deeply hilarious, even though I never read Phantom Stranger.
 
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