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.
From the banning of vampire comics to the new Morbius movie, here's how vampires have appeared in Western comics in the last 100 years.
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“Spider-Man” is hyphenated (as it is today) in the logo but not the narration box, and not for the rest of the issue.
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Jewishness in comics is continually presented as a shocking fact no one knows. It's time to stop being surprised that comics are Jewish.
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Get to know Archie Andrews from his early, humble beginnings with this look back.