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Posted on September 5, 2014 by Brett

Baltimore Comic Con begins today! We’ve got a panel tomorrow for you to come to. And here’s some news to keep you buys until then.

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CBS 6 – This girl inspired latest Marvel comic featuring deaf hero Hawkeye – Cool!

Bleeding Cool – That Disney/Marvel Bust Up Over Big Hero 6 – Sigh. Guessing we won’t see comics based on Darkwing Duck or Rescue Rangers for a while.

GamePolitics – IGDA Working With FBI to Combat Developer Harassment – Good, so folks should be going to jail.

Kotaku – D&D Gear For The Fancy Role-Playing Type – I expect to see a Kickstarter in 3…2…1…

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Comic Vine – Deadpool vs. X-Force #4

Talking Comics – The Death-Defying Doctor Mirage #1

Talking Comics – Death of Wolverine #1

Comic Vine – Hawkeye vs. Deadpool #0

CBR – The Names #1

Talking Comics – Original Sin #8

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Posted on October 9, 2013 by Brett

It’s new comic book day! What’s everyone getting?

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CBR – Marvel Sends Cease-and-Desist to Anticipated Punisher Fan Film – DC allows their fans to do fan films….

The Beat – The day Archie’s publisher put the heat on J. Edgar Hoover over dirty comic books – Fascinating nugget of history. I reached out to the FBI about Hoover’s writing of comics, but they had no record of it.

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Comic Vine – Afterlife With Archie #1

Earlier in the month we brought you news about the FBI going after HTMLcomics.com. Well now you can add a few more to the list. ComicBooksFree.com and PlayboyMonthly.com are some of the other sites run by Gregory Steven Hart doing business as Database Engineers Inc. located in Tampa, Florida.

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to order Hart to forfeit his domains due to criminal copyright infringement.

In 2009 the FBI began investigating HTMLcomics.com which received 1.6 million visits per day and had 6,630,021 pages of comic books offered. Throughout the latter half of 2009 numerous publishers contacted Hart and demanded he cease and desist his actions and take down the copyrighted material. Hart moved on and founded HTMLmagazines.com which hosted boasted magazines such as Maxim and Playboy.

In April 2010 federal agents searched Hart’s home seizing records including a cease and desist letter, hard drives, computers and DVDs with copyright-protected images.

Publishers 1, Pirates 0

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Brett

HTMLcomics.com is in some legal hot water. The FBI served a warrant on the site and shut down it’s servers. Alleging copyright infringement, the site was shut down and servers confiscated. The law firm Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP issued a press release about it and gives some details about the investigation.

The shut down came after a coordinated investigation by the FBI, U.S. Department of Justice, a consortium of comic publishers and their legal counsel, a team of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP attorneys specializing in the areas of intellectual property, publishing and comics, as well as local counsel in Miami.

HTMLcomics.com was to believed to be the largest pirate site for comic books, with 1.6 million visits per day and 6,630,021 pages of comic books offered.

The full press release is below.

Friday Fun – FBI Does Archie

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Brett

It’s our latest Friday Fun! There’s many instances of the government directly mandating what should be covered in stories. J. Edgar Hoover actually wrote anti-mob comic book stories as propaganda in his war on crime. Here we have an example of one of the numerous anti-drug comics to be released in the 80’s.

We’re dealt with various stories centered around the Archie gang and a peer mentoring program. The humor of the comic is how it deals with each of it’s tales. The white girl is shown in a nice home and has a drinking problem. The black boy lives in the ghetto and is offered crack. No stereotyping there I see.

But some of the best is it’s gee-whiz attitude that getting some one to go to alcohol treatment or “just say no” is that easy. Must be nice to live in Pollyanna.