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Jessica Plummer

Jessica Plummer has lived her whole life in New York City, but she prefers to think of it as Metropolis. Her day job is in books, her side hustle is in books, and she writes books on the side (including a short story in Sword Stone Table from Vintage). She loves running, knitting, and thinking about superheroes, and knows an unnecessary amount of things about Donald Duck. Follow her on Twitter at @jess_plummer.

Throwback Thursday: Superman, Golden Age-Style

I have a dream: to read every DC comic ever. It is a ridiculous, implausible dream, but it’s mine, and ...

Our Reading Lives: Comic Book Stores I Have Known

My first comics came off the rack by the register at the Key Food on Atlantic Avenue, Betty and Veronica ...

NYCC, Cosplay, and Me

In 2006, I attended the very first New York Comic Con, and my first comic book convention ever. I was ...

Off the Page: THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN Radio Serial

Look! Up in the sky. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman! Most people know those familiar opening lines. ...

My Kryptonite: Superheroes without Secret Identities

Is there any element of the superhero more iconic than the secret identity? A given superhero might not have any ...