New teaser for biodoc on Wonder Woman's creator

"Professor Marston & the Wonder Women," out later this year, tells the story of the Wonder Woman's eccentric creator Dr. William Marston, his wife Elizabeth and the couple's polyamorous relationship with Olive Byrne, a former student.

The film stars Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall and Bella Heathcote.


Video: Tom Holland, as Spider-Man, visits Children's Hospital in Los Angeles


Hear Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize speech

Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize acceptance speech has been posted online. Awarded the prize for literature, Dylan's speech explores stories, books and songs that have influence his life and work, from Buddy Holly and Leadbelly to "Moby Dick," "The Odyssey" and "All Quiet on the Western Front."

You can listen to and read it here.

Vintage pics: Jane Fonda as Barbarella

Review: "Hero-A-Go-Go: Campy Comic Books, Crimefighters and Culture of the Swinging Sixties"


We live in superhero-crazy times. Most of biggest films and many of our TV shows are populated by costumed characters. But this has all happened before - in a much bigger, wackier way.

In the mid-1960s, sparked by Susan Sontag's academic essay "Notes on 'Camp'," Jules Fieffer's "The Great Comic Book Heroes," the "Batman" TV series and a general wave of nostalgia, American culture exploded with superheroes and comic book love.


It didn't last long - maybe 1965 to 1970 or so - but it was a fun and glorious time, fully documented in this new book by comics scholar and Back Issue magazine editor Michael Eury.

Batmania is just the tip of the iceberg, here. Eury explores all facets of what he calls the "Camp Age of Comics." We look at the Green Hornet, James Bond-influenced spymania, short-lived TV series such as "Captain Nice," cartoons such as "Underdog" and "Space Ghost," Archie's superhero adventures as "Pureheart the Powerful," and much more. If it's of the sixties, goofy and tangentially related to comics and/or superheroes, it's here.


Eury even investigates some of the ads found in comic books of the time, such as the ad for a Superman vs. giant cyclops display at the 1964 World's Fair. Looks cool! Many comics fans have likely seen it in battered back issues and been similarly intrigued. But the pictures of the actual specimen Eury dug up feature a very creepy, mysteriously unshaven wax Man of Steel battling a similarly weird and creep - not a in a good way - monster.



There are a few interviews in the book, too, including one with "Lost in Space" star and sixties pop culture fan Bill Mumy and Dean Torrence, who details the back story of the cult classic "Jan and Dean Meet Batman" LP.


There's lot of picture-packed fun here for any fan of the 1960s, comic books and pop culture.