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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 1h

Looks like a great start to your day! Happy birthday! 🥳

Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My youngest son's bestie randomly stopped by, and he came in hot, talking about how important Ant-Man and Wasp are to the Avengers and how they should have been in the first movie. "They are on the cover of the first issue!" Yup! I love that he turns to me to have his comic opinions validated. 😂

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Justice Society Presents @jsapresents.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

JSA IN THE 90s listeners: Your homework before Sunday’s spotlight episode -- re-read DOCTOR FATE #39 (1992) & FATE #11 (1995)! We’re using our crystal ball to look back at the legacy of Doctor Fate through the 1990s, from Inza Nelson to Jared Stevens and beyond! Tune in Sunday!

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

X-Men: Legacy #223 Danger ✅ I love the concept.

Lee Bermejo and Morry Hollowell's cover for X-Men: Legacy #223, featuring Danger holding Professor Xavier by the collar with her other arm cocked back as if to punch him.

"Salvage Part 4"

Script: Mike Carey
Pencils: Scot Eaton
Inks: Andrew Hennessy
Colors: Brian Reber
Letters: Virtual Calligraphy and Cory Petit

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Monarch☘️Dafey @monarchdafey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Have a Sensational #SheHulkSunday

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Richard Binns @moralavenger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tomb of Dracula #5 Release Date: August 22, 1972. Cover Date: November 1, 1972. Featuring: Dracula, Lenore, Abraham van Helsing, Rachel van Helsing, Frank Drake, Taj Nital, Whitby, Ora. #Dracula #Marvel

Cover by: Gil Kane, Tom Palmer and Sam Rosen.

"Death to a Vampire-Slayer!"

Writer(s): Gardner Fox
Penciler(s): Gene Colan
Inker(s): Tom Palmer
Colorist(s): Tom Palmer
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Editor(s): Roy Thomas

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Detective Comics #23.1 3D motion cover of Poison Ivy in a cool pose ✅ It was hard to get a good picture of this cover. Trust me, it looks cool in person.

Jason Fabok's 3D Motion Cover of Poison Ivy for Detective Comics #23.1

"The Green Kingdom"

Script: Derek Fridolfs
Pencils/Inks: Javier Pina
Colors: John Kalisz
Letters: Taylor Esposito

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Today is the birthday of Ira Schnapp (Oct. 10, 1894-July 24, 1969). A letterer and logo designer, he refined the Superman logo w/ Superman #6 (1940) and designed logos for the Flash, JLA, Green Lantern, Atom, Hawkman, & more. He also designed house ads & the stamp for the Comics Code Authority.

Eight logos he designed, including the Justice League of America, Aquaman, Atom, Metamorpho The Elemental Man.
Flash, Metal Men, Green Lantern, and Plastic Man.

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think the Frazetta like aesthetics played into it too.

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Alien Encounters #4 Contains Gardner Fox's last published comic story ✅

John Bolton's cover for Alien Encounters #4, showing a woman in a retrofuturistic yellow space suit shooting red robots.

I really like seeing an "On The Racks." The blurb for this issue features Gardner Fox! It is also nice to see an index and, fellow Gardner Fox scholar, Michael T. Gilbert's Mr. Monster no. 4 on the list.

Opening panel for "Wish Upon a Jewel," showing a lone space man on a ship that is out of fuel and food, who has just come upon a yet undiscovered planet.

Story: Gardner Fox
Art: Larry Elmore
Lettering: Wayne Truman
Colors: Tim Smith

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

She Comes With Magic #1 High-quality NSFW fantasy ✅ Mail call! 📬

She Comes with Magic #1's cover A by Phillip Sevy & Gibran Ferdian

Writer: Christie Porter
Artist: Phillip Sevy

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Anne Loves Comics @annecomics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

New Black Lanel Anthology series! From Terry Dodson, Amy Reeder, and Denys Cowan! Artists focused, they’re writing their own stories! Terry Dodson and Rachel Dodson on Zatanna!

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My kids and I really enjoyed the first play through because of the character options and locations, but you are right that we haven’t felt a drive to return.

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Watching the discourse develop has been fascinating. You could teach a whole college course on this!

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Steve Chung @freestevechung.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In honor of #Lanterns, I'd like to share this classic story by Gardner Fox, Gil Kane, and Murphy Anderson. Sixty-four years ago, Abin Sur was "Earth's First Green Lantern!" www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For all my complaints, there is a lot to love about Lanterns. The thing I love most is the way it made my youngest son realize just how many Green Lantern fans there are out there. He thought his love was far more isolated given the lack in our cultural milieu.

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*Spoilers for Lanterns* . . . . If you strip away the critique that we didn’t get enough aliens/constructs, we’re left with a story where the supposed hero is okay with torture and his call to action is maybe having to snipe a kid one day. And all the hugs at the end?? The finale ruined the season.

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Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Al Feldstein, Harvey Kurtzman, Alan Moore, @kurtbusiek.bsky.social , Otto Binder, Will Eisner. One of my favorite comic writer *figures* is Gardner Fox, who I feel never gets the credit he deserves. His is a story of quantity-more-than-quality, but in that churn, he created SO MUCH that we..

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm mostly with you. The fact that the only fun/superfluous construct we see Hal make is a bottle opener tells us a lot about his character. And the bubbles etc. work given the circumstances/their constraints as a live action tv show. That said, their lack does impinge on what GL usually delivers. 🤷

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Side note: While I feel I can't fully judge Lanterns without seeing the last episode, and I have been enjoying it for what it is, same, Alan. Same. And we haven't even gotten a big green boxing glove! So much of the fun behind Green Lantern is what they can do with the constructs. I want more fun!

Panel showing Green Lantern saying "Sometimes I just get a little tired of the big green boxing glove!" after the previous panel had him making a big green hockey stick for a "slapshot."

Justice Society of America #1 "Home Again!"
Script: Len Strazewski
Pencils: Mike Parobeck
Inks: Mike Machlan
Colors: Glenn Whitmore
Letters: Bob Pinaha

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Justice Society of America #1 JSA! ✅ Len Strazewski ✅ I love the respect you can feel in this issue. It starts with a dedication to the memory of Sheldon Mayer, "who did it all first - and best!" and ends with a history lesson from Mark Waid. 👏

Cover of Justice Society of America #1 showing the team in a fight that will take place in the issue.

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Pencils: Mike Parobeck
Inks: Mike Machlan
Letters: Todd Klein

"Home Again!"

Script: Len Strazewski
Pencils: Mike Parobeck
Inks: Mike Machlan
Colors: Glenn Whitmore
Letters: Bob Pinaha

Image of the JSA making their big appearance. "Dedicated to Sheldon Mayer, who did it all first - and best!"

Mark Waid: "Until ALL STAR #3. Editor Sheldon Mayer and writer Gardner Fox wisely decided that since each of DC's heroes enjoyed a certain measure of popularity, then all of them working in tandem would make for a sales sensation - and thus was created the Justice Society of America. For the first time ever, the world's greatest super-heroes came together to compare crimefighting techniques."

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Cartoonists United @cartoonist.coop · 20/06/2026

Have you filled out the third annual Comic Worker Survey? If not, this is the time to support your fellow comics workers! Your answers will help address pay disparities for a more transparent and equal comics industry. Take the survey here: cartoonist.coop/2026comicwor... Art by @urnash.com

Inkling, an inkwell, is standing atop a pile of gold bars, gleefully waving a fistful of money in the air. Nibford, a dip pen, is clutching a single nickel to their chest and trying their best not to cry, Floating text urges you to TAKE THE 2026 COMIC WORKERS SURVEY! because PAY TRANSPARENCY HELPS US REACH PAY EQUALITY!

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Our Favorite Thing Is My Favorite Thing Is Monsters My Favorite Thing Is Monsters! ✅ Free! ✅ I was so happy I was able to score this supplementary material that Free Comic Book Day.

Emil Ferris' Free Comic Book Day cover for "Our Favorite Thing Is My Favorite Thing Is Monsters." (Fantagraphics 2019)

A mostly blank page with purple framing. "You can draw your very own protector monster right here!" is written along the top of the frame, with two more panels at the bottom. The first shows Emil Ferris saying, "Remember that YOU are the creator of your own protector monster and that means that ONLY YOU know your monster's deepest feelings and special story..." "... keep imagining and drawing amazing things because..." in word balloons. The bottom panel makes up the bottom of the frame and reads, "... You really can use your imagination to make the world a better place!"

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There does seem to be a bit of a resurgence right now. 🤞 “You think you're country, you lay a claim unto the soil If you were country, you'd save your land from being spoiled Do you drink water? Do you breathe air? I think if you were really country, you would fucking care”

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Nick Shoulders, "Bound and Determined," // GemsOnVHS™

YouTube video by GemsOnVHS

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Witchblood #2 Lisa Sterle and Matthew Erman ✅ Tarot card cover ✅ Shout outs to letterer Jim Campbell and colorer Gab Contreras too. Great stuff all around. I love the suggestion to play a song. And Lisa Sterle's art always leaves me feeling impressed.

Lisa Sterle's Tarot Cover for Witchblood #2 (Vault), featuring the lead vampiric villain on a throne with blood pouring down from above neatly in his hand and his foot on a skull.

• Writer: Matthew Erman
• Artist & Cover A: Lisa Sterle
• Colorist: Gab Contreras
• Letterer: Jim Campbell

Panel suggesting the reader play the song Chattahoochee before turning the page.

Lisa Sterle's mesmerizing work. You can see the silhouette of a woman with glowing eyes and wavy hair. In the same ink color and connected to her body are flowers, mushrooms, and other natural-looking shapes. There is watercolor green surrounding the figure with purple around the edges of the panel. The image is somehow graceful and beautiful while also feeling creepy and decaying.

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.

Image shows the creepy-eyed Tryphon in a classic black-and-white horror comic style.

Five Claws to Tryphon (from Vampire Tales #2)
Script: Gardner Fox
Pencils: Jesús Blasco (pages 1-6) John Romita (pages 7-10)
Inks: Jesús Blasco (pages 1-6) John Romita (pages 7-10)
Letters: Irv Watanabe (pages 1-6) (pages 7-10)

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If anything, the human touch is even more important in formulaic fiction!

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Okay. I’m jealous of that one. $5?!? 👏

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #2 TMNT comic I used to own before donating it to the local library when I moved out of the house at 18 ✅ My whole family was into comics, but TMNT was something I found on my own. I love so much about these old issues.

Cover of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #2, showing Baxter Stockman driving a "rat catcher" with the turtles ready.

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Pencils: Kevin Eastman
Inks: Peter Laird
Colors: Steve Lavigne

"Return of the Shredder (Part 2)"

Script: Christy Marx, David Wise, and Dave Garcia
Pencils: Dave Garcia
Inks: Dave Garcia
Colors: Barry Grossman
Letters: Dave Garcia

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Zatanna #3 Esteban Maroto's Zatanna ✅ Gardner Fox co-created Zatanna during the Silver Age revival era. This time, instead of bringing back the hero (Zatara) as the titular character, a daughter was invented. She takes part in the first multi-title crossover event, where she tries to find him.

Esteban Maroto's cover for Zatanna #3, showing the titular character in her cool new outfit casting a circular spell, with Xaos looking foreboding, looming above her.

Come Together 3

Script: Lee Marrs
Pencils: Esteban Maroto
Inks: Esteban Maroto
Colors: Linda Kachelhofer
Letters: Willie Schubert
Editing: Kim Yale

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Gardner Fox and Murphy Anderson - splashin’ in Supergirl 5 (1973); originally presented in Hawkman 4 (1964).

Introducing Zatanna. Center full portrait, flanked by panels of Katar and Shayera in action.

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BatCat 🦇🎃 @brocephuslive05.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#DCcomics character of the day: Doctor Fate Created by Gardner Fox & Howard Sherman, Kent Nelson was an archaeologist who discovered the tomb of Nabu, a Lord of Order. Kent was bestowed the Helmet of Fate granting him magical abilities and joined the Justice Society of America.

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lumberjanes #31 Lumberjanes ✅ Greek mythos ✅

Kat Leyh's cover for Lumberjanes #31 featuring the gorgon Ligo and Diane staring each other down with the lumberjanes in the background, between them, looking scared.

"Cut Loose" Boom! Box

Script: Shannon Watters and Kat Leyh
Pencils: Carey Pietsch
Inks: Carey Pietsch
Colors: Maarta Laiho
Letters: Aubrey Aiese

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Runaways #5 Runaways ✅ Doctor Doom ✅ I adore Doombot C-53. ❤️

Stephanie Hans' cover of Runaways #5, featuring the team in a closed space with a Doom figure on the front right. "One World Under Doom."

Written by Rainbow Rowell, with art by Elena Casagrande

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Tim Evanson @timinthecle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

August 20, 1964 – Zatanna debuts in Hawkman #4 (cover date November 1964). She was created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Murphy Anderson. #Zatanna #DCComics #GardnerFox #MurphyAnderson

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Whitney Ellsworth is to blame for that one. He saw the buying power of the emerging "hip" youth culture at the time and wanted Carr to be modeled after the finger-snapping television character Kookie from 77 Sunset Strip.

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wonder Woman #752 Jenny Frison cover ✅ Wonder Woman ✅ Another issue with multiple echoes of Gardner Fox in the advertisements.

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m sorry you are feeling so buried. I hope the breathing room helps.

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Boris the Bear #18 Boris! ✅ I don't think I ever would have looked twice at a Boris comic if it weren't for @garaujo1.bsky.social. 😁

James Dean Smith's green cover for Boris the Bear #18 shows a moment where the robotic teddy bear "battles the bear-slayer!"

Script: James Dean Smith and Steve Mattsson
Pencils: James Dean Smith
Inks: Art Nichols
Letters: John Workman

Image of Boris climbing up a wall "It's as though my entire body is charged with some sort of fantastic energy! It's the spider! It has to be! Somehow-- in some miraculous way, its bite has transferred its power -- to me! And as some sort of weird side effect, I've been given the ability to deliver a long speech explaining the incredible situation while engaging in an awesome exhibition of sheer athletic agility!"

Boris the bear asks his dog friend "Hey, Woody, I'm going to the comic shop. Who's your favorite comic book artist?" "Barks!" (In reference to Carl Barks)

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Taking my youngest to his first prerelease for Lorwyn Eclipsed!

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It would be shitty, but there does seem to be evidence for that. 🤷

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