January 27th, 2022When it's chilly outside and you're getting real sick of winter, it's nice to dream about ways to keep warm. Comfy sweaters, radiators, criminal arson. Now don't get me wrong, toasting your hands over the smoldering remains of an ill-fated Hobby Lobby is a great way to make memories—but sometimes you just gotta have some...
June 25th, 2019There's decades upon decades of Spider-Man trivia, thanks to it being one of the most popular comics of all time. Want to learn more about our favorite web-slinger? We knew you would, so let's get right into it!
1. Neil Patrick Harris voiced the college-age Peter Parker in the CGI Spider-Man: The New Animated Series in 2003. Barney...
March 25th, 2019We've all had our share of action figures, dolls and toys based on our favorites when we were growing up, right? Heck, even if we didn't - we played a lot of pretend. Alright, so let's pretend these Marvel toys were part of our collections.
I've had my hand in a lot of Superhero toys, especially Marvel with the X-Men, Avengers and such...
February 5th, 2019Not everyone can be a superhero and not many feel they could be as pure as quite a few of them are, but what about your favorite Hulk? Big, mean and green, nobody can say Hulk isn't Incredible and there's a lot of info to prove it. Let's dive into some trivia, shall we?
1. As I've referenced before in a piece about the Hulk, there are...
February 1st, 2019Pound for pound, the catchiest superhero theme song of the golden age of TV toons has to be "Spider-Man, Spider-Man! Does whatever a spider can!..."
That classic theme tune from the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon produced by Grantray-Lawrence Animation (and later taken over by legendary animator Ralph Bakshi, and man his episodes got trippy)...
October 31st, 2018Peter Parker’s personal life may be kind of a mess but, as Spider-Man, his style is nothing short of spectacular, sensational, and downright AMAZING!
September’s Marvel Gear and Goods Looters joined us as we #THWIP(ed) through the Spider-ages and celebrated the wall crawler’s superior wardrobe.
Check out the EXCLUSIVE...
October 18th, 2018There are surprisingly a lot of folks who don't realize that the Marvel hero Ghost Rider has a few iterations. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. got people talking about the newest Ghost Rider, but just how many have there been? Let's take a look!
Now, there are a couple of non-hero alter egos of Ghost Rider, but I'm going to just put my focus on...
July 9th, 2018Sometimes even a well-known superhero reaches a point in their history where it's time for a new direction. A direction that delivers them higher, further, faster... more.
When Kelly Sue DeConnick took the reigns of Captain Marvel in 2012, that particular moniker was new Carol Danvers, the Air Force pilot who absorbed a fusion of Kree...
June 26th, 2018Ant-Man and The Wasp is hitting theaters on July 6th, and many people are going in not knowing much about the character who was called The Wasp in the comics...
After all, Janet Van Dyne was a briefly-featured character Ant-Man, sacrificing herself to the Quantum Realm to save the lives of many. (Hope Van Dyne, her daughter, has a...
April 24th, 2018When we talk about Role Models as our May theme, it's ironically – and definitely in the case of Frank Castle. Still, there are quite a few interesting bits of info about everyone's favorite skull-adorned Marvel antihero. Check out what we've found out about The Punisher...
1. Frank Castle, aka The Punisher, was actually introduced as...
October 5th, 2017You are WORTHY… of these cupcakes! To celebrate the God of Thunder in October’s #MYTHICAL Loot Crate and Loot Crate DX, I whipped up another tasty treat that SCREAMS Asgard. (But tastes much better.)
These cupcake creations pay homage to the colorful “Rainbow Bridge” (AKA the Bifrost) with layers and layers of fluffy,...
August 18th, 2017It's heeeere! Today's the day that The Defenders finally drops on Netflix and we couldn't be more excited! We were lucky enough to see the first episode at Comic-Con in July and rest assured, this show starts with a bang and doesn't let up; it's so good we're already brainstorming about a second season!
Mind you, The Defenders is...
August 16th, 2017If anyone knows the importance of downtime, it’s Peter Parker, Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy, Jessica Drew and their Wall-Crawling peers.
(Especially Peter. He gets cranky when he’s tired.)
To help YOU unwind after a hard day, (of fighting traffic) we curated our July 2017 Marvel Gear + Goods crate with EXCLUSIVE web-slinging loot...
June 9th, 2017If I could have any superpower, it would probably be to summon dozens of doughnuts at anytime. Sadly, such power does not exist (yet)... but my research is getting close.
To celebrate the release of Spider-Man: Homecoming, along with the best national holiday known to man, (National Doughnut Day); I whipped up some Baked Funfetti...
June 1st, 2017How well do YOU know these facts?! (And how many of you fell asleep in that classics class you took in college? Mwahaha.)
At long last, tomorrow Wonder Woman opens in cinemas! We've been waiting a long time for Diana's above-the-title big screen debut, so to celebrate while we wait these last few hours, we put together a 10-question...
May 19th, 2017Probably no other device in comics storytelling allows for as much flexibility – and let’s be honest, as much retcon too! – as alternate universes. The notion of parallel Earths existing alongside our own has been at the center of many epic comics arcs over the years, as well as given us indelible characters.
In Marvel Comics,...
May 16th, 2017It's entirely possible that Marvel fans have become trivia-hounds what with the influx of awesome Marvel Cinematic Universe films and shows that have hit our screens. However, with Spider-Man: Homecoming on the horizon, I realized there may be quite a bit fans don't know about our web-slinging underdog!
1. While most may remember a...
May 1st, 2017There's no shortage of incredibly talented artists and illustrators who work at Disney, but even among that high caliber Brian Kesinger has a style all his own.
A veteran of many of Disney's amazing animated features of the past couple of decades, he's also a published illustrator of a delightful series of steampunk books and prints...
April 6th, 2017Few writers in comics today are as prolific and well-read as Brian Michael Bendis. Winner of five Eisner awards, Bendis transitioned from detective and noir comics into superhero titles and has been a leading creator at Marvel for some time, including his role in crafting the Ultimate Marvel universe...
Since then, Bendis has written...
March 28th, 2017It's entirely possible that we've been binging the entire Marvel Universe on Netflix -- but we're focused up on Daredevil today. Why? Because The Man Without Fear is featured in our INVESTIGATE Loot Crate DX this April! How much do you know about Daredevil aka Matt Murdock? Let's find out!
1. Foggy Nelson,...
