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MON · 2026-09-14

01. Andy Fish, artist and co-creator of Blackwood and Sabrina the Teenage Witch comics, died at age 60 on September 5 following a battle with two different types of blood cancer.

Andrew Tiberius Fish was born in Massachusetts on December 27, 1965, and trained at the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied under Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, and Paul Ryan. He worked for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Worcester Magazine, Worcester Art Museum, the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Emerson College, and other Massachusetts art organizations. His teaching expertise extended to creating drawing guides for Chartwell and Walter Foster Publishing, and he volunteered as a mentor and boxing coach for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

Fish was best known for collaborating with his widow Veronica Fish on books like Blackwood, Kelly Thompson's Sabrina the Teenage Witch run, and the graphic novelizations of Hide and Mister Magic. Other work included Steve Altes's semi-autobiographical graphic novel Geeks & Greeks, the retro superhero title Adam Bomb Adventures, the unofficial Golden Age throwback The Batman: Death Ray of Hugo Strange, TidalWave's The Mis-Adventures of Adam West, Marvel's Spider-Woman, a Gumby anthology from Papercutz, the dark comedies The Tragic Tale of Turkey Boy and Fly: A True Story Completely Made Up, the folklore guide Werewolves of Wisconsin and Other American Myths, Monsters and Ghosts, and the Dracula adaptations The Dead Travel Fast & Dracula's Army. Further projects outside comics included painting, illustrations for Nike and Coca-Cola, a role as a creative consultant for UNICEF, and character design and storyboard art for Warner Bros. Animation.

Veronica Fish posted a tribute on Instagram, writing that he fought valiantly and that she has never loved and will never be loved like this again. His final work was the adaptation of Kiersten White's horror novel Mister Magic, created with Veronica and Scott Peterson and published earlier this year. As well as Veronica, Fish is survived by three sons from a previous marriage, his mother, two siblings, two daughters-in-law, a brother-in-law, and a sister-in-law. In lieu of flowers, the family has asked for any donations to be made to the Boys & Girls Club of Worcester or the Hero Initiative, and a GoFundMe originally started to cover his expenses during chemotherapy will remain active to help cover funeral costs. A Worcester Art Museum scholarship will also be established in his name in the future.

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TUE · 2026-09-15

02. Marvel Comics employees in New York faced a September 15 deadline to decide whether to accept relocation to Los Angeles or take a redundancy package, ending nearly 90 years of the publisher's Manhattan operations.

More than 100 New York-based employees have been asked to move or face the end of their roles at the publisher, two months after the company informed staff at a Midtown town hall that the relocation of Marvel's Comics and Franchise division from Manhattan to Burbank, California, remains on track to be completed by July next year. The decision was driven by the upcoming expiration of Marvel's lease on its Avenue of the Americas offices and a deliberate push to place the comics team under the same roof as Marvel Studios and parent company Disney. In the internal memo circulated after the July town hall, executives Brad Winderbaum, Head of Television, Animation, Comics, and Franchise, and David Abdo, General Manager: Comics And Franchise, stated the move will position the team beside the broader creative organization and create opportunities for collaboration across both Marvel and Disney, with their stated goal to continue to make the best comic books in the business.

The deal to move is considered attractive to younger staff members without specific ties to New York, but for those with families and kids, it is considerably less attractive, and there are also staff members who have no interest in living on the West Coast rather than the East Coast. Stephen Wacker is now Editor-in-Chief, and C.B. Cebulski has relocated to Japan in his new position as Editor of Asia Originals, briefly stopping by Korea to take the stage with prime ministers and presidents, focusing on Marvel's original graphic fiction and manga projects. Orientation sessions for relocating staff and their families began shortly after the announcement, and Marvel has emphasized support for affected employees throughout the year-long transition, though the practical reality remains stark: stay and move to LA, or leave the company.

Humberto Ramos posted on X that today is a crucial day for everyone at Marvel Comics, expressing love and respect to everyone who wears these colors with joy, professionalism and pride. It has been a stressful day for many, and if anyone fancies setting up a New York-based comics publisher in, say, a year and the end of certain non-compete agreements, they might have their pick of some people with an awful lot of experience.

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WED · 2026-09-16

03. Bill Everett's Zombie from Marvel/Atlas's Menace #5, published in 1953, is going to auction, notable for the character's later integration into the Marvel Universe two decades later as Simon Garth in Tales of the Zombie.

Menace #5 opens by declaring "You're a Zombie!" The corpse standing motionless in Bill Everett's moonlit swamp has no name, and neither does the mysterious individual who has controlled him through black magic for untold years, or the woman he is ordered to abduct. Twenty years later, Marvel would return to this seven-page story, name its walking dead man Simon Garth, and build Tales of the Zombie around him. Marvel was the comic book industry's most prolific horror publisher in 1953 when Menace #5 hit the newsstands, but this changed when the Comics Code was implemented the next year. The Code explicitly prevented zombies from appearing in comic books at that time, along with other horror staples like vampires and werewolves, but when Code guidelines were relaxed on this point in 1971, Marvel looked to re-enter the horror field.

An editorial in the debut issue of Tales of the Zombie magazine in 1973 explained how this came about: Editor Roy Thomas turned up several Bill Everett Pre-Code Horror stories while he was looking for vintage tales to reprint for the first issue of Dracula Lives, and the very best Everett tale—in fact, Roy's personal nomination for one of the best-drawn sagas of that much-maligned decade—was a thing called simply "Zombie." He put it aside on top of a stack of reprint material by Russ Heath, Gene Colan, Tony diPreta, and other giants in the field, and went on to other concerns. Then, suddenly, neo-publisher Stan Lee came up with a couple of new names he wanted to see done as magazine titles, so that Marvel would enter the black-and-white field with a whole line of 75-centers, one of which was Tales of the Zombie.

A story by Joe Maneely and Stan Lee in Menace #5 contains a clear reference to Senator Estes Kefauver's organized crime investigations of 1950-1951. Ironically, shortly before Menace #5 hit the newsstands in 1953, Kefauver and fellow Senator Robert C. Hendrickson had floated their intention to form a committee to investigate juvenile delinquency, with the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate creating a Special Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency on April 27, 1953. The Subcommittee's infamous 1954 hearings targeted comic books and included testimony from a number of figures in comic book publishing and distribution, as well as Seduction of the Innocent author Fredric Wertham.

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THU · 2026-09-17

04. Marvel officially announced that Miracleman will join the Avengers roster in 2026, with David Colton as the team's final member and new cover art by Alan Davis and Mark Spears.

Earlier this week, Avengers Armageddon saw David Colton, the 9/11 Captain America, say the word "Kimota" and be transformed into Miracleman. Marvel Comics has now confirmed he will be at the centre of the new Avengers lineup debuting in Avengers #1 by Chip Zdarsky and Marco Checchetto, on sale November 4. The covers have been amended, new ones have been added, and True Believers Blind Bags will only contain exclusive variant covers not available for regular ordering, including a brand-new piece by definitive living Miracleman artist Alan Davis. Also unveiled are covers by Artgerm, Skottie Young, Jim Cheung, and Julian Totino Tedesco, as well as the complete Kaare Andrews Wraparound Cover, now featuring Miracleman.

Mark Spears' Display Box Exclusive Variant Cover will be available only in Avengers #1 True Believers Display Boxes, each of which contains 20 copies of the issue, including one copy of the Spears variant cover in a special polybag. The series synopsis states that in the aftermath of Armageddon, the world has turned its back on Earth's Mightiest Heroes, but it may need them now more than ever as the devil has come to collect his due. When a demonic invasion erupts on Earth, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Wolverine, Luke Cage and Miracleman assemble to save a world that no longer trusts them.

Each blind bag contains one of the following: Color Block Blue Wraparound Variant Cover by David Nakayama, Color Block White Wraparound Variant Cover by David Nakayama, Foil Variant Cover by Clayton Crain, Variant Cover by Adi Granov, Variant Cover by Alex Maleev, Variant Cover by Alan Davis, Variant Cover by Peach Momoko, Variant Cover by Simone Bianchi, Virgin Variant Cover by Artgerm, Marvel Studios Avengers: Doomsday Variant Cover, Blank Variant Cover, or one of several rare, hand-drawn sketch covers by surprise contributors. The unpredictable David Colton may not be able to be trusted with his godlike new abilities, and when gods cry war, the world may pay the price.

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FRI · 2026-09-18

05. Lawyers for Amazon MGM Studios, Criminal showrunner Ed Brubaker, and executive producer Phillip Barnett filed a demurrer response asking that the lawsuit filed by series production assistant Ijaaz Noohu be dropped on an array of factual and legal issues.

Noohu's suit, filed earlier this month, alleged Brubaker and other staff members on the upcoming Prime Video series had subjected him to sexual, racial and religious harassment, discrimination, assault, battery, and defamation. The introduction to the lawyers' demurrer claims Noohu asked Brubaker to retain and promote him to executive producer, and that the production had six separate ways to report misconduct, including an anonymous hotline, but he used none of them, nor did anyone else report any harassment of Noohu. His contemporaneous emails and texts—including the one begging to keep working closely with Brubaker, his supposed harasser—breathe not a word of harassment, discrimination, or distress.

The document stresses that Noohu's most sensational allegation—that Brubaker pointed a functional firearm at his face and pulled the trigger—is pure invention, and had that happened, every person in the room, Noohu included, had a duty to report it, and in a post-Rust industry on high alert to firearms, someone would have. No one did, and defendants first learned of the supposed incident when Noohu reemerged peddling the story and demanding a payday. The document's introduction ends claiming the timing of the lawsuit gives the game away: Noohu sat on these supposed claims for twenty months after his employment ended in 2024 and filed suit on the eve of the press circuit for Criminal, which is the conduct of an opportunist timing his leverage, not a victim seeking redress, and the evidence will ultimately confirm that Noohu's claims lack merit.

Since the lawsuit was filed, several comments have been posted to Deadline's initial story defending Brubaker, stating they worked with him and Noohu on Criminal, and repeatedly characterize the writer as being "kind," while calling Noohu "entitled," "arrogant," and "rude." A hearing is expected to be held in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County on Thursday, October 15. Criminal, based on the comic Brubaker created with Sean Phillips, does not have a release date at the time of writing, although the demurrer and previous statements from the showrunner indicate it will premiere by the end of 2026.

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SAT · 2026-09-19

06. Black Terror #16, featuring an Alex Schomburg cover and a story about recruiting WWII veterans into a deceptive fascist organization, is going to auction with only 44 CGC Universal entries on the census.

Cover-dated October 1946, one of this issue's Black Terror stories contains a deceptively potent message inside its superhero adventure: Who gets to speak for the men who fought the war, and what happens when someone tries to use their service against the democracy they defended? In a Black Terror story with pencils attributed to Ed Moritz, a group deceptively calling itself the Patriotic Americans attempts to turn World War II veterans into recruits for American fascism, and this story was inspired by actual events of that moment. The Patriotic Americans group in the story has intentions that go well beyond recruiting, and the conspiracy includes a city council bombing and funding from Nazi financier Hans von Schlye. The uniforms are used to give organizers the perception of an authority that they haven't earned, but the returning veterans of this story aren't victims waiting for the Black Terror to rescue them—with their help, the scheme is stopped, and the Nazi financier is delivered to the FBI.

The story appears to have been inspired by the recent activities of Gerald L. K. Smith, a figure connected to domestic fascist organizations throughout the war era and beyond. Writing in Labor Action on March 25, 1946, James M. Fenwick warned that Smith and his associates were seeking to organize a group called the Christian Veterans of America around veterans' grievances, but had other goals. Both religious organizations and the mainstream media of that year recognized that this was another attempt by Smith and others to promote fascist ideology in America, and as reported about the real events of 1946 and in the story those events inspired, the veterans didn't buy it. This wasn't the first time that comic books had taken notice of fascist organizations with ties to Smith: The Purple Shirts in National Comics #1 (1940) parallel William Dudley Pelley's Silver Shirts and the German American Bund, with foreign-backed organizers exploiting distressed farmers, and in Wonder Woman #7 (1943), the Man's World Party and its Purple Shirts appear to draw on Smith's America First Party as well as the Silver Shirts.

Alex Schomburg's cover is connected to a different Black Terror adventure in this issue, with the opening story involving rival carnival sideshows and sabotage, with pencils and inks attributed by GCD to Mike Suchorsky. There are 44 Universal entries on the CGC census for this issue, with two at 9.2 and one at 9.4. This one has appeal on several fronts: it's a high-grade pedigree comic book with an Alex Schomburg cover and a historically important story inside, and there's a copy of The Black Terror #16 (Nedor, 1946) Ohio pedigree CGC NM- 9.2 copy with off-white to white pages up for auction at the 2026 September 24-26 Comic Books Signature Auction #7469.

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