Pop Artifact! Fisher-Price airplane

Vintage comic book ad: Hot Wheels

Pop Culture Roundup March 7, 2007

DC Comics offers previews of JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #6, DETECTIVE COMICS #829, SHAZAM: THE MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL #2, SCALPED #3 and Y: THE LAST MAN #55.

Best DC Comics Sites.

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Ain't it Cool News has lots of images from the upcoming "Art of Spider-Man 3" book.

Best Spider-Man Sites.

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Marvel Comics, in yet another desperate plea for attention, has killed off Captain America--"at least for now."


On the new edition's pages, a sniper shoots down the shield-wielding hero as he leaves a courthouse...

...the character's death came as a blow to co-creator Joe Simon.

"We really need him now," said Simon, 93, who worked with artist Jack Kirby to devise Captain America as a foe for Adolf Hitler.


Best Marvel Comics Sites.

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Yoko Ono has blocked the world premiere of a new John Lennon documentary, "Three Days in the Life."

Ray Thomas, the documentary's executive producer, culled raw footage that was shot inside Lennon's apartment down to a two-hour film covering a pivotal time in Lennon's career. The footage was shot by Ono's former husband, Tony Cox, over a three-day period in February 1970, two months before the breakup of the Beatles.

More details from Rolling Stone.

Best Beatles sites.

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Lucasfilm is producing 100 new animated "Clone Wars" episodes in 3-D.

These Clone Wars episodes take place between Episode 2 and Episode 3. The episodes that Lucas is producing in-house, will be, according to Variety, "similar to the micro-series of shorts that the Cartoon Network has already aired." Once he has completed the 100 episodes, he plans to offer them to the networks.

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Steve Ditko draws Maxwell Smart.



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NPR spotlights ex-Monkee Mike Nesmith's Magnetic South LP.

Lost March 7 preview

Click here to read a slighty spoilerish teaser of tonight's episode.

Then come back here tomorrow to see a roundup of clues and observations from the show.

Also see:
The Best "Lost" Sites on the Web
The "Lost" Season 3 Episode Guide

Comics shipping March 7, 2007

See complete lists:
DC Archives
DC Showcase
DC Trade Paperbacks
Marvel Masterworks
Marvel Essentials
Marvel Trade Paperbacks
Upcoming Trade Paperbacks - Graphic Novels


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Vintage comic book ad: More SSP racers

Pop Culture Roundup March 6, 2007

Datajunkie offers up some more nice pulp art by Virgil Finlay.

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See seven minutes of "Spider-Man 3."

Best Spider-Man sites.

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Newsarama has info on the upcoming "Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus" volumes.

Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus vol. 1 will be released in March, marking the first salvo in DC’s plan to reprint the entire Fourth World saga in order of publication. Readers today will be able to read the stories in the order that readers in the early 70s were able to read them. Vol. 1 collects stories from Jimmy Olsen #133-139 and the first three issues each of Forever People, Mister Miracle and New Gods.

You can order Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 of the Omnibus books from Amazon now for $32.99. Just click the links.



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Remastered DVDs of three "Doctor Who" adventures are in the works. In the pipeline: "Robot," featuring the debut of fourth Doctor Tom Baker and "Timelash," featuring sixth Doctor Colin Baker.

More details here.

Best "Doctor Who" Sites.

Lost preview March 21 episode

Highlight hidden text for mild spoilers.

"The Man from Tallahassee" - Ben tries to persuade a determined Locke to call off his destructive plan by offering him some of the secrets of the island, and Kate's reunion with Jack does not go off as planned when she discovers that he has made a deal with "The Others," on "Lost," WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.

"Lost" stars Naveen Andrews as Sayid, Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond, Emilie de Ravin as Claire, Michael Emerson as Ben, Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hurley, Josh Holloway as Sawyer, Daniel Dae Kim as Jin, Yunjin Kim as Sun, Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet, Dominic Monaghan as Charlie and Terry O'Quinn as Locke.

Guest starring are M.C. Gainey as Mr. Friendly/Tom, Tania Raymonde as Alex, Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert, Mira Furlan as Danielle Rousseau, Kevin Tighe as Anthony Cooper, Patrick J. Adams as Peter Talbot, Barbara Baehler as Mrs. Talbot, Don Nahaku as Detective Reed, Marlene Forte as Detective Mason, Stephen Bishop as William Kincaid, Cleo King as government worker and Brian Goodman as Ryan Pryce.

"The Man from Tallahassee" was written by Drew Goddard & Jeff Pinkner and directed by Jack Bender.


See the Best "Lost" Sites on the Web.

DVD new releases March 6, 2007

Borat - Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Widescreen Edition)

Peter Pan (Two-Disc Platinum Edition)

Stargate Atlantis - The Complete Second Season

Northern Exposure: Complete Sixth Season (5pc)

Hawaii Five-0 - The Complete First Season

South Park - The Complete Ninth Season

Moonlighting: Season Five - The Final Season (3pc)

Doctor Who - The Sontaran Experiment

Doctor Who - The Invasion

Fast Food Nation

The Prisoner of Zenda (1937 and 1952 Versions)

Sabrina, The Teenage Witch - The Complete First Season

Literary Classics Collection (Madame Bovary (1949), Captain Horatio Hornblower, The Three Musketeers (1948), The Prisoner of Zenda (1937 and 1952 Versions), Billy Budd)

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends - The Complete Season 1

The Loop - Season 1



More upcoming DVD releases.