Legion of Super-Heroes

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Batman No 1 Comic Auctioned For $2.2m

1. Jan. 1970

SAN FRANCISCO: A Batman comic book from 1940 has been sold at a US auction for more than $2.2million (about R33.344m). The sale sets a world auction record for a Batman comic, Dallas-based Heritage Auctions said on Thursday. The buyer wanted to remai

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Global Genre Fiction Market

1. Jan. 1970

Kopfkino Media is a brand new US ‘boutique publisher specializing in dark genre fiction’. The editors love horror. Their first project is an anthology, Midnight in the Dying Garden: Fairy Tales for the End of the World, a combination project consisti

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Explore The Fantastic In Glasgow

1. Jan. 1970

The University of Glasgow School of Critical Studies has launched the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic. The new venture’s inaugural event was a free Zoom lecture on 16 September by fantasy author Ellen Kushner, followed by a discussion panel on f

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“I Can’t Wait To Hear More About The New Batman Game – I’ve Got High Hopes For It.”

1. Jan. 1970

Fresh from a Saturday morning viewing of the new Joker movie, it just feels like a great time for a new Batman game. It’s fair to say that Bats in games, just like the movies, has been something of a mixed bag. But the titles in the Arkham series are

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Fact Attack!

1. Jan. 1970

Leiber’s father (also Fritz) was a successful actor, most notably playing Franz Lizst in Universal’s Phantom Of The Opera (1943). The book was expanded from The Pale Brown Thing, first published in the Jan/Feb 1977 editions of Fantasy And Science Fic

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Also Out

1. Jan. 1970

As ever, there’s tons more books we couldn’t fit in. Almost-human wolves and a living ship made of bones are among the delights of Laird Hunt’s dark fairytale in THE HOUSE IN THE DARK OF THE WOODS (out now, One). Alison Littlewood’s MISTLETOE (out no

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Encourage Humanity

1. Jan. 1970

FableCroft Publishing is an Australian independent press of speculative fiction. The editorial team has been ‘so tipped upside down and shaken in ways we could barely have imagined, except perhaps in the post-apocalyptic and dystopic worlds of story.

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Get Into Bag Of Bones

1. Jan. 1970

Established in December 2021, Bag of Bones Press aims to ‘champion and publish budding writers of horror and dark fiction who may not have had a traditional or formal education in the literary arts’. Submission calls are open to anyone and everyone T

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Books For The Book Throne

1. Jan. 1970

Book one in the Gaunt’s Ghosts series, which chronicle the lives of the “poor f****** infantry” of the Imperial Guard. It’s World War I in space. The Eisenhorn series, currently being adapted for TV, begins with this hardboiled crime story. There’s a

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The Complete Johnny Future

1. Jan. 1970

RELEASED 30 APRIL Publisher Rebellion Writer Alf Wallace Artist Luis Bermejo COLLECTION British comics have often cheerfully taken the “steal whatever isn’t nailed down” approach to storytelling ideas, but they’ve rarely done it in such an impressive

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Black Beth: Vengeance Be Thy Name

1. Jan. 1970

RELEASED 9 JUNE Publisher Rebellion Writers Unknown, Alec Worley Artists Blas Gallego, DaNi, Andrea Bulgarelli The original Black Beth story is a real anomaly: a swords and sorcery adventure published 12 years after it was completed, in British horro

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Reissues

1. Jan. 1970

Pick of the paperbacks this time: Adrian Tchaikovsky’s CAGE OF SOULS ( , out now, Head Of Zeus). Set when the sun is dying and less than 100,000 humans survive in the last city, it centres on a rebel confined on an island prison in a predator-filled

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Also Out

1. Jan. 1970

Words have mystical power in Jay Posey’s space opera EVERY SKY A GRAVE (out now, Harper Voyager). Set in a future where mankind has mastered the Deep Language of the universe, it centres on an adept sent to a world that’s become corrupted. The world

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The Last Smile In Sunder City

1. Jan. 1970

RELEASED 6 FEBRUARY 352 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook Author Luke Arnold Publisher Orbit Fans of Black Sails will likely find the name Luke Arnold familiar. He played John Silver in the pirate series, as well as being a mainstay on numerous other

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Spy Games

1. Jan. 1970

Premier Nikita Khrushchev sends redhead Madame Natasha (codenamed Black Widow) to spy on industrialist Tony Stark. In her first appearance, the Widow dresses formally in a green gown, fur stole and veil. Having seduced would-be hero Hawkeye into bet

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Avengers Packs!

1. Jan. 1970

Adrift in space with no food or water, Tony Stark sends a message to Pepper Potts as his oxygen supply starts to dwindle. Meanwhile, the remaining Avengers - Thor, Black Widow, Captain America and Bruce Banner - must figure out a way to bring back th

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Flashes

1. Jan. 1970

US small press Sliced Up is looking for short stories involving menopause for a horror fiction anthology, Bodies Full of Burning: An Anthology of Menopause-Themed Horror. Stories, 1,000-4,000 words, must include menopause as the main plot point. Subm

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Also Out

1. Jan. 1970

Miles Cameron switches from fantasy to space opera for ARTIFACT SPACE (out now, Gollancz), which centres on a vast merchant vessel. When on-the-run orphan Marca poses as a midshipman on the Greatship Athens, she gets caught up in a plot to destroy th

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Totes LOL

1. Jan. 1970

IS THAT A BIRD? A PLANE? NAH! IT’S SUPER DOUG! TRAINING TO BE THE NEXT SUPERHERO LIKE…  THEY CALL ME FLASH… COZ I’M THE FASTEST IN THIS RACE! Q: What is Aquaman’s favourite colour? A: Aquamarine! Q: How do you become a superhero? A: Jus

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Free Fantasy

1. Jan. 1970

Various authors and publishers are making books and stories freely available to keep readers entertained during the pandemic. Though the magazine closed down last year, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show has put all 69 issues of the scien