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Spider News: The Case Against Bread, Circuses and Musicals

June 14, 2011Spider NewsNo comments

No, you didn’t just inadvertently wander onto the home page for playbill.com. But since the Spider-Man musical, “Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark” is making its long-awaited (and stalled) debut tonight on Broadway, and Chasing Amazing at the core is a site about one man’s meditation on Spider-Man comic books,

Spider-News: New ASM Covers Make Me Groan

By Mark Ginocchio

May 11, 2011random reflections, Spider NewsNo comments

You hear me talk a lot about comic book industry gimmicks around here and why not? I’ve been collecting on and off for more than 20 years, including witnessing first-hand how speculators attempting to make fast money through comics nearly killed the industry in the 1990s. These gimmicks, for