comic books

Now, you might ask: Who is Joe Maneely? Joe Maneely was an artist who worked in the 1950s at Atlas Comics, the predecessor to Marvel Comics, where he co-created characters like the Black Knight, the Ringo Kid, Yellow Claw, and Jimmy Woo. The first of whom he co-created alongside one Stan Lee...

For those who don't know, Jack Kirby is widely regarded as one of the greatest comic book creators to ever live. His career started in the 1930s, but took off in 1940 when he, alongside writer-editor Joe Simon, co-created Captain America. During the 40s, he and Simon would collaborate several...

The good people at www.OneSixComics.com have created a graphic novel wherein the 1/6 Insurrection was successful in keeping Trump in office, although getting VP Mike Pence in the process....

This discusion is ENTIRELY outside of my TL-93 continuity (and more in my Earth-7 universe), but I would like to know: what would have happened if Entertaining Comics (more commonly known as EC Comics) survived today? What would have befallen on Marvel and DC? Would they still existed or would...

Based on my other comic book AHC which was to make Captain Marvel/Shazam more popular than both Batman and Superman, your challenge today however, is to make The Spirit a character created by Will Eisner more popular than Batman. You can use a POD no later than 1940 the year that The Spirit...

So what if Black Panther won Best Picture at the 91st Academy Awards? Would this have a significant impact on the direction of the movie industry?

So I found this article in the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/24/business/dealbook/att-discovery-warnermedia-backstory.html Basically Bob Iger called Jeff Bewkes, (The dude in charge of Time Warner at the time) about a merger however negotiations regarding the AT&T deal were already...

The Iron Age (or Modern Age, but I prefer the term Iron Age because what's "modern" is always shifting) is generally considered to have started in 1996 and continues today. So I'd like to ask if there are any interesting PODs during this era you'd like to discuss. Here are some I have: - What...

What it says on the tin. As a lapsed comic book reader, I've always been fascinated by the history of both pulp adventure magazines and comic books. What I'm wondering here, is how would American horror comics, a genre that was basically killed by Wertham and his book gaining widespread...

Amalgam Comics is perhaps the well-known comics company around the world. It is universally popular, running over 50 countries with translated comics since its establishment in 1944. It main and most famouse line is the Amalgam Superheroes franchise, a long-running media franchise composing of...

When it comes to heroes, you don't get much more iconic than Superman and Batman. So it's only fitting that their respective archnemeses are two of the most notorious villains of pop culture. I am, of course, speaking of the Ultra-Humanite and Hugo Strange. Of course, as inevitable as it may...

Much like Walt Disney and Osamu Tezuka, Jack Kirby was an artist who was not only legendary, but one who had such a profound impact on the medium he worked in that it would be unrecognizable without him and his influence. Frank Miller famously went so far as to say that the history of comics...

In the 1950s, superhero comics were in a major decline. Nobody wanted to read comic books about costumed crimefighters who had silly names and fought equally silly villains, Axis minions and gangsters at the end of World War II. Many comics companies that produced superhero comics went bankrupt...

Again, I know there was already a thread for this, but it's dead. I think one interesting POD with some very far-reaching repercussions would be "Marvel Time" never getting introduced.

Yes, I already know there was a thread about this, but it's dead, so I figured it would be best to make a new one. Here's an idea: what if the Second Circuit had ruled that Wonder Man didn't infringe on Superman?

Here is a fan-made ATL site thatI found, that I think may be of interest to fans. I am not sure of the continuity changes, but it certainly deserves a look at: see: https://earth27.fandom.com/wiki/Earth-27_Wiki Earth-27 is a dynamic reinvention of the DC Comics Universe, created by Roy...

Following up on the Bronze Age thread, I'd like to ask if anyone has interesting ideas for PODs related to the Dark Age of Comic Books. Here are a few I came up with: -What if Hal Jordan's infamous heel-turn hadn't happened? -What if Todd McFarlane hadn't opted to produce the Spawn toys...

Continuing from the Golden and Silver Age threads, I felt like asking if anybody had any interesting POD ideas regarding the Bronze Age of Comic Books. Here's one: IOTL, Jim Shooter and Chris Claremont got into a dispute over the resolution of The Dark Phoenix Saga. When Shooter pitched the...

Welcome Back to the Arcade, ladies and gentlemen! I'm your host, Awesome Sauce and this is a reboot of the Turing-Nash TL. This time around, it isn't just pop culture, now everything is allowed (as along as it is not ASB or violate the rules of this site) on this thread (of course with my...

OK, so everyone at this point has heard of the two biggest Comic Publishers of all time right? DC (formerly National) and HIT (Formerly Quality) have been in the pop culture Nexus ever since the 1930s, although it was the 40s when they both truly hit their stride with guys like Wonder Woman...