Air Date: 24 November 2021 to 22 December 2021Network: Disney+Stars: Jeremy Renner, Hailee Steinfeld, Tony Dalton, Alaqua Cox, Vera Farmiga, and Florence Pugh The Background:In one of their more blatant borrowings from their competitor, Stan Lee and Don Heck debuted…
Released: 10 November 2023Director: Nia DaCostaDistributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion PicturesBudget: $270 millionStars: Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Zawe Ashton, and Samuel L. Jackson The Plot:Whilst investigating a universal threat as a favour to Nick Fury (Jackson), Captain Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel (Larson) discovers an…
Published: June 2008 to January 2009Writer: Brian Michael Bendis Artists: Leinil Francis Yu The Background:In January 1962, legendary duo Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced Marvel Comics readers to the Skrulls, a race of warmongering shape-shifters who have long hounded…
Released: 25 March 2014Director: Kenichi ShimizuDistributor: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentBudget: UnknownStars: Jennifer Carpenter, Brian Bloom, Grant George, JB Blanc, Eric Bauza, and John Eric Bentley The Plot:After interfering with a top secret mission, Frank Castle/The Punisher (Bloom) is apprehended by…
Story Title: “Hawkeye, The Marksman!”Published: 1 September 1964Writers: Stan Lee and Larry LieberArtists: Don Heck and Larry Lieber The Background:In November 1941, Mort Weisinger and George Papp introduced readers to Oliver Queen/Green Arrow, a crimefighting archer heavily influenced not just…
Having introduced comic readers to a whole host of colourful characters, in September of 1963 the legendary duo of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby brought together six of Earth’s mightiest heroes to form the Avengers. A super team like no…
Released: 6 May 2016Director: Anthony and Joe RussoDistributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion PicturesBudget: $250 millionStars: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Elizabeth Olsen, Daniel Brühl, and Chadwick Boseman The Plot:After saving the world from a…
In September 1961, DC Comics published “Flash of Two Worlds” (Fox, et al), a landmark story that brought together two generations of the Flash: the Golden Age Jay Garrick and the Silver Age Barry Allen thanks to the concept of…
Easily Marvel Comics’ most recognisable and popular superhero, unsuspecting teenage nerd Peter Parker was first bitten by a radioactive spider and learned the true meaning of power and responsibility in Amazing Fantasy #15, which was first published in August 1962.…
Released: 9 July 2021Director: Cate ShortlandDistributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion PicturesBudget: $200 millionStars: Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Olga Kurylenko, Ray Winstone, and Rachel Weisz The Plot:On the run after the events of Captain America: Civil War (The Russo…
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