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This week, the editors revisit writer Sarah Nicole Prickett’s “Serious Sex Battle,” published in February 2018.“A preference for death over captivity spurs radical movement,” Prickett declares in her virtuosic, gimlet-eyed essay on a woman of inordinate strength. “Serious Sex Battle” is a feminist genealogy, but it’s also a strong theory for how to outmaneuver reactionaries. Legerity is essential; so is an alert refusal of your enemy’s terms. As Prickett argues, “The heroine ...

The Blue Beetle story from issue #55 (1948) started life as something very different. Its a remix of a 1946 Atomic Comics story.

In early 1945, a six-panel comic in a U.S. pamphlet offered a visceral depiction of the Third Reich's killing machine

Planet Comics is the most legendary science fiction title in American comic book history, and issue #11 is a good example of why.

Mike Sekowskys obscure Atomic Age Hero Captain Flash was an interesting Cold War-era debut in a period considered a superhero wasteland.

The comics legend was responsible for many of the studio’s greatest creations. But were his best ideas stolen by Stan the Man?