ComicCollx Weekly — Week of October 12–17, 2026

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MON · 2026-10-12

01. Steve Wacker delivered his first major retailer address as Marvel Editor-in-Chief at New York Comic Con, drawing on his past as a comic shop employee in the 1990s.

Wacker opened his October 7th keynote by revealing that his first two jobs in comics were behind a counter, first at Comics and More in St. Louis and then at Golden Apple in Los Angeles. He met Stan Lee for the first time at Golden Apple years before he ever worked with him. The speech was delivered to retailers on Retailer Day, with Marvel's Brad Winderbaum and David Abdo in the room. Wacker spent 26 years in the part of the business that lives or dies on what happens in stores every Wednesday, and he used that history to frame his approach to the EIC role.

He recalled a specific moment from his Golden Apple days when Alex Ross and Kurt Busiek's Marvels was shipping in the mid-1990s. The store couldn't get enough copies, but Marvel was running a flyer called Marvel Mart inside its comics telling readers to order the same issues directly. Wacker and owner Bill Leibowitz went through every Marvel comic and ripped out that flyer before putting the books on the shelf. He said he started off by sticking it to Marvel, and now that he's on the other side, he needs to remember what made them rip those flyers out in the first place.

Wacker's career included assistant work at DC on JLA, JSA, Legion of Super-Heroes, Jonah Hex, and the weekly series 52, though he left partway through and moved to Marvel. There he edited Spider-Man, Daredevil, Hawkeye, Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, and Marvel Apes. He told the assembled retailers that they have one of the hardest jobs in the video game skill tree, ordering books three months out with no returns from catalogs the size of the Springfield, Illinois phone book, then showing up on Wednesday to convince somebody to try a comic. He said a good retailer can do more for a book than a whole marketing campaign, and that Marvel makes the thing but retailers make the reader.

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TUE · 2026-10-13

02. Josh Silverman, a Marvel veteran who worked at the company from 2001 to 2011, now oversees DC Comics as part of Skydance's merged structure.

DC Comics will report to Silverman under the new Skydance Products & Publishing division, which combines the consumer products, licensing, and publishing operations of Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount. Silverman's LinkedIn page already lists his title as President, Global Products, Publishing, and DC. WBD's consumer products head Robert Oberschelp will remain, reporting to Silverman. DC co-heads Jim Lee and Anne DePies now have a clear line of authority after the WarnerMount merger, ending earlier uncertainty about their place in the org chart.

Silverman's background includes stints at Mattel and a decade at Marvel Entertainment, where he served first as SVP of global business affairs, business development, and operations, then as SVP of global strategy and business development. He later worked at Disney in global franchise and licensing and at Mattel as chief franchise officer, overseeing the Barbie movie boom, before joining Paramount in 2025. Skydance claims the combined entity is the world's second-largest media and entertainment licensor with an estimated $22.5 billion in global retail sales. The combined libraries include properties ranging from DC characters to Paramount's Hey Arnold, giving Silverman oversight of a vast portfolio that also includes brand partnerships, retail, e-commerce, and other commercial initiatives across the company's franchises.

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WED · 2026-10-14

03. Matt Howarth, the indie comics creator known for Those Annoying Post Bros. and Savage Henry, died at 72 following complications from a triple bypass.

Howarth's death occurred sometime before October 5th, according to Down the Tubes. His friend and fellow cartoonist SMS said Howarth wanted it known that DOGE and ICE compromised his healthcare, and that he would have preferred a funnier and wilder writeup. Howarth had been active in comics since 1969, starting self-publishing at age 15. His early work included comedic strips for the International Star Trek Conventions in the early 1970s. Those Annoying Post Bros., which followed two troublemaking brothers capable of interdimensional travel, ran in Heavy Metal in the early 1980s and later in its own series at various publishers from 1985 to 1998.

Savage Henry ran from 1987 to 1994 and followed a guitarist from another reality, featuring authorized guest appearances from real musicians including The Residents, Moby, Foetus, Hawkwind, Nash the Slash, Yello, and Conrad Schnitzler, an original member of Tangerine Dream and Kluster. Howarth and Schnitzler collaborated on other projects including cover art and a comic strip for one of his albums. Star Crossed, which told the love story of a genetically engineered woman and a sentient asteroid, ran from DC's Helix imprint in 1997. Other DC work included illustrations for Transmetropolitan and two issues of Justice League Adventures in 2002 and 2004. Howarth also wrote the first-ever review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for Heavy Metal and penned two installments of the comic in 1991 and 1992.

Howarth had begun a resurgence in recent years, with Cosmic Lion Productions releasing The Termite Mound in 2024, A Slice of Spy in 2025, and Scoundrel in 2026. Before his death he was working with SMS on a two-part comic called The Flip, which Cosmic Lion will release posthumously later this year. No information on survivors was available at the time of reporting.

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THU · 2026-10-15

04. Brad Winderbaum told fans that viewership numbers, not social media campaigns, determine whether Marvel greenlights or cancels projects like Daredevil.

Winderbaum, who holds the title of Head of Marvel Television, Animation, Comics & Franchise, said that hashtag campaigns like SaveDaredevil are appreciated but that the company also needs WatchDaredevil. He explained that the biggest leverage he has to make something or not comes from actual viewership numbers, and that's where he gets his power to greenlight projects. The comments came during the same week that Winderbaum attended Steve Wacker's retailer address at New York Comic Con, where he was reportedly smiling throughout the presentation.

The statement underscores the data-driven approach that now governs decisions across Marvel's film, television, and streaming operations. Winderbaum's role spans multiple divisions, and his emphasis on measurable engagement over fan sentiment reflects the broader shift in how legacy characters and projects earn renewals or cancellations in the current media environment.

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FRI · 2026-10-16

05. A collector completed a decades-long personal goal by acquiring the final Groo comic books needed from the pre-Epic run.

The collector shared the completion of their hunt on the comicbookcollecting subreddit, describing the acquisition as part of a vacation haul. The post offered no specifics on which issues were acquired, their condition, or how long the search had actually taken, but the completion of a pre-Epic Groo run suggests a focus on the Pacific Comics and Eclipse Comics material that predated the character's move to Marvel's Epic imprint in the late 1980s.

Groo the Wanderer, created by Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier, debuted at Pacific Comics in 1982 before moving to Eclipse and then Epic. The character's pre-Epic issues remain a niche but dedicated collecting category, and the completion of such a run often represents a long-term commitment for collectors given the scarcity of early issues in higher grades.

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SAT · 2026-10-17

06. Mark Millar said Stan Lee gave him two pieces of advice that pushed him toward creator ownership, including a warning that Marvel would turn his runs into films without paying him.

Millar recounted the conversation during an interview at High Vis Comic Con in Kings Heath, conducted by former Bleeding Cool contributor Olly MacNamee in a church. Lee told him that his work felt like movies and that it felt big, then added that Lee himself didn't do Tarzan, Superman, or Flash Gordon, the characters he grew up loving. Lee said he went on to create Spider-Man, and that Millar should leave something of his own. The second piece of advice was blunter. Lee told Millar that Marvel was turning all of his stuff into movies and he wasn't going to get paid, and that if he created his own thing, the situation would be different.

Wanted, drawn by J.G. Jones, became Millar's first creator-owned work when it launched at Top Cow and Image Comics in 2003. The book sold as a film within weeks of publication, and Millar sent Lee a text afterward. Wanted became the foundation of Millarworld, the creator-owned line that later produced Kick-Ass and Kingsman. Millar sold Millarworld to Netflix, and he said at the convention that King Of Spies is next in line for adaptation. The story offers a rare window into the kind of direct, practical advice Lee gave to creators in private, advice that shaped one of the most commercially successful creator-owned careers in modern comics.

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