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ABC has announced its plans from wrapping up "Lost."

The Emmy-winning adventure series will run for 48 more episodes over three seasons. Each season will consist of 16 episodes, which will air uninterrupted.

"Lost" executive producers/showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, who have been vocal about setting up an endgame for the show, have signed on to stay for the remainder of the series' run.

A typical season is 24 episodes, so this news really means ABC has elected to buy only two more seasons. They're just making it look like three.

Originally, five full seasons of the show were planned.

This may not be entirely bad news for viewers, though. Lately, the show has been great. But the first part of this season seemed a bit listless--lots of episode where not much happened. Maybe giving the creators a tight deadline to finish up will help keep the quality on track.

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Dial B for Burbank continues his detailed look at the Shadow art of Jim Steranko. We have our own gallery of Steranko Shadow paperback art here.

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Datajunkie shares a nice batch of painted Gold Key Comics covers from "Lost in Space," "M.A.R.S. Patrol," "Tarzan of the Apes" and more.

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Variety focuses on the 30th anniversary of "Star Wars" with a look at early action figures inspired by the movie.