Pop Culture Roundup July 9, 2007

Fred Hembeck, as only he could, finds a Silver Age precedent for the infamous Mary Jane Watson statue that caused so much online controversy a while back.

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DC Comics has launched an online comics imprint.

The imprint, called Zudacomics.com, will permit aspiring cartoonists to register at its Web site and submit an eight-panel sample of their work. Starting in October and each month thereafter, editors at DC Comics will select 10 entries, post them for public view and invite people to vote for their favorite. Editors may also declare as many as six submissions to be instant winners during the calendar year.

“We’ve always found interesting stuff in submissions,” said Paul Levitz, president and publisher of DC Comics. “One of the problems that comics have today, I think, is that open door is much more closed. This creates a more open door.”


However, questions are being raised over who owns the rights to these comics--their creators or DC.

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Download Dial B for Burbank's two-hour video documentary tracing the history of The Shadow.

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Work on the new Iron Man film has wrapped and clips will debut at the upcoming Comic-Con International in July.

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Graphitti Designs is launching a series of EC Comics-based t-shirt designs.



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Hear a BBC audio documentary on the Rolling Stones' traumatic 1967 experiences.

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