ComicBookMarks
Last additions: NEW on 2005-08-09 and RECENT on 2005-08-04
DC Related Websites
Meta-DC Sites
- Andy’s DC Page (Andy Nystrom) - Includes the DC Roman Numeral checklist and list of Canadian super-heroes
- Chroma City (Jonathan Woodward) - Includes the annotated Crisis on Infinite Earths and the Infinite Atlas
- DC Cosmic Teams (Michael Kooiman) - Huge information packed site on DC’s superhero teams
- DC History (Bob Hughes) - A year-by-year publishing history of DC Comics
- DC Universe Who’s Who (Tom Morrow) - Informative who’s who of some of the more obscure DC characters
- Kingdom Come: A Fan’s Tribute (Michael Bradley) - A well designed tribute to Kingdom Come, including fan-art and action figures.
- The DC Weblist (Michael Ponte) - Massive list of DC fan websites
- The Unofficial Guide to the DCU (Tenzil Kim) - A very detailed encyclopedia of the DCU includes profiles, indexes, chronologies and a message board.
- Vanishing Point (Adam Arnold) - Overview of time travel and time travelling characters in the DCU
- Who’s Whose in the DC Universe? (Bob Hughes) - The definite directory of creator credits for DC characters
Justice League Sites
- JLA DEO Satellite Feed (Zenfrog) - Beginings of a slick website animated in shockwave
- JLA Microheroes (Scott —) - Archive of JLA related microheroes
- JLA Watchtower Website (Greg Agustin) - What if the JLA had a public relations website.
- Justice League Insanity (Parasol) - A few fun profiles and the rather odd (yet very cute) My Little Justice League featuring ponyfied members of the JLI
- The Justice League Library (Michael Koolman) - The longest running continuously updated JLA website (formerly the JLA FAQ)
Justice Society Sites
- Annotated Justice Society Checklist (Graeme Fitzgerald) - Very nice graphic heavy JSA website
- Davo’s All Star Comics Page (David Studham) - All-Star cover gallery and fanzine listings
- The Justice Society Fact File (David W. Stepp) - The leading resource for information on the JSA and DC Comics Golden Age
JL/JLU/CN Animation Sites
- DCU Animated: The Original Animated Universe (J. Fuentes) - Including the excellent create a character challenge and the What If Green Lantern: The Animated Series
- JL Animated - Rather cool guide to the animated incarnation of the Justice League.
- Justice League @ TV Home (Gislef Darhk) - IMDB style listing and episode guide
Super Friends
- The Super Friends Archive (Doug —) - Character list and episode guide
- Ultimate Super Friends Episode Guide (Will Rodgers) - Excellent and comprehensive episode guide
Other Teams
New/Teen/Team Titans
- NEW Titans GO.net - Dedicated to the animated Teen Titans
- Titans Tower (Nightwing) - Informative and details coverage of all incarnations of the Titans
Legion of Superheroes
- Legion of Super-Heroes Club House (Jo & Terri-Anne Sanning) - Who’s Who and Chronology of the Silver Age LSH
Outsiders
- Outsiders (Grafit) - Outsiders website with indexes and a timeline for the first three series
Individual Characters
Superman
- RECENT Caped Wonder (Jim Bowers) - “The main mission of this website is to showcase a variety of unique Superman imagery, with emphasis on the Christopher Reeve Superman films.”
- Kara Lives - A Supergirl homepage using art and material from the most recent origin
- NEW Superman From Krypton to Metropolis - The different adaptions of Superman
- Superman Homepage (Andrew Gould / Steven Younis) - The web’s premier Superman fan website
- NEW Superman Songs (AmIAnnoying.Com) - List of musicians who sang about Superman
- Superman Through The Ages - Historical overview of the classic Superman. Features material by Elliot S! Maggin
Zatanna
- Zatanna Una Historia Magica (Oscar De Majo) - Excellent Zatanna site in Spanish (this is the Googled English translation)
Power Girl
- Power Girl (Carol Strickland) - Year by year listing of Power Girl appearances
Birds of Prey
- CanaryNoir: Birdwatching (Jennifer A. Ford) - Simply amazing website about Black Canary and Oracle
Batman
- The Bat Squad (Jclawed) - Massive index of Batman comics including synopsis and comments.
Swamp Thing
- Roots of the Swamp Thing (Rich Handley) - Starting of a fairly comprehensive fan site
Roleplaying Games
- DC Heroes RPG (Jim Ogle) - Notes on the Mayfair Games version
- NEW DC Universe Sourcebook - Marvel RPG stats for the DC characters
Marvel Websites
Meta-Sites
- Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Snood) - Profiles and articles about the characters left out of the Official Marvel Handbook. Really good for obscure characters that have been licensed by Marvel.
- Marvel Directory (Bill Fries) - Fan version of the Marvel Handbook.
Other Comic Websites
General
Databases and Meta-Sites
- An International Catalogue of Superheroes (Loki) - Superheroes in comics from other countries
- Andy’s Early Comic Archive (Andrew Kronky Kru) - Archive of pre-20th century cartoons and sequential images. Very informative.
- Comic Art Links Directory (Terry) - A directory of comic book artists, galleries, conventions, and resources.
- Comic Book Awards Almanac (Joel Hahn) - A listing of comicbook awards (US and International) with lists of nominations and winners.
- Comic Book Netowork Electronic Magazine (CBEM) - A long running text e-mail magazine with information, news, and reviews about comic books
- Comics UK (Alan Notton) - A site dedicated to those great institutions, the British Comic and Story Paper.
- Grand ComicBook Database - Datebase of comicbooks including story credits, publication details and cover scans.
- The Answer Man! (Bob Rozakis) - Answers obscure comics related questions with help from John Wells.
- The Comic Page (Derek Santos) - Year by year history of American comicbooks
- The Master List (Mark Adams) - The Ultimate Datebase of comic book shops in the USA and around the world.
- Toonnopedia (Donald Markstein) - A vast repository of toonological knowledge
Online Comics
- Artbomb - Online graphic novels; co-founded by Warren Ellis
- MegaTokyo (Fred Gallangher) - Online manga style story
- NextComics - Web based comics; updated twice a month
Comic Book Art
- Comics Art Fan - News and information about original comic art collecting. Including galleries, sketchbook, and art for sale
Modern Age Websites
- Planetary (Richard Sonag) - Archaeologists of the Impossible
- Superwomen (Amani) - Website dedicated to those who have mastered the art of fighting in high heels
- Women in Refrigerators (Gail Simone) - Proving its unhealthy to be a woman in comics
Bronze Age Websites
- Cancelled Comic Cavalcade - A collection of unpublished comics from the DC implosion
Silver Age Websites
- Charlton Personnel (Ramon Schenk) - A listing of known Charlton Comics staff by genre and year
Golden Age Websites
- Crimeboss (Richard Wolfe) - Crime comicbooks of the 40s and 50s
- Golden Age Directory (Mikel Midnight) - Massive resource listing of GA websites and timelines.
- Golden Age Hero Directoy (Jess Nevins) - A-Z list of major and obscure Golden Age heroes
- The Clubhouse (Jim ‘Zilch’ Doty) - Home of the GA Who’s Who, timeline and issue index
Pulps and Adventure Heroes
Tarzan
- Tarzan of the Internet (Ed Stephan) - Tarzan meta-site including an extensive chronology of the character
- Pulp Hero Directory (Jess Nevins) - A-Z list of major and obscure Pulp characters
- ThePulp.Net (William Lampkin) - Your guide to the online world of pulps!
- Thrilling Detective Website (Kevin Smith) - Alphabetical list of articles on Detectives in comics
Pre-pulp characters
- Fantastic, Mysterious, and Adventurous Victoriana (Jess Nevins) - A-Z list of major and obscure Victorian adventure heroes
Fan Tribute Pages
- Wally Wood Tribute Page (Kaol) - Wally Wood gallery, including a Power Girl page
Related websites
Comicbook Sales
- “Top 300” Comics Sales Estimates (Carl Henderson) - Estimates of comicbook sales from June 2000 through Sept 2001
- ICv2’s Top 300 Comics & Top 100 GN’s Index - Estimates of actual comics sales based on Diamonds Charts, from March 2001 to present
Action Figures
- Adventure Customs (Chris Galdieri) - Custom action figures including a large LSH section
- Custom Action Figure Gallery (Fat Sal) - Gallery of custom Super Powers figures
- DC Direct Action Figures (Joe Acevedo) - Comprehensive list of DC Direct action figures
- Paradise bar & Grill (Joe —) - The private life of superhero action figures. Odd.
Reading Room
Interviews
- Gerard Jones Interview (Michael Hutchison) - Quite a nice 2001 interview between Gerard Jones and Fanzing editor Michael Hutchison. Jones was last League writer before Grant Morrison. In this interview he explains some of the events in the series and discusses his tenure on Green Lantern.
- NEW Paul Dini (Jayme Lynn Blaschke) - Long interview at Revolution SF
Google Group Articles
- DC Projects (Steve Grant) - First (or one of the first) mentions of the 1994 JLA reorganisation
- Siegel/Shuster and Donenfeld (Mark Evanier) - An insiders description of how Superman appeared in ACTION COMICS #1
- The (nearly) complete Power Girl (Michael Pastor) - Overview and issue listing of the modern PG
Misc
- Alan Moore’s Twilight of the Superheroes - A copy of Moore’s original proposal to DC
- Citing Comics in Scholarly Writing (Allen Ellis) - MLA-esque style guidelines from the Popular Culture Association (Comic Art and Comics Area) for citing comicbook in research papers.
- NEW Comics Scholars’ Discussion List (Dr. Donald Ault) - a “list [that] serves as an academic forum for those involved in research, criticism and teaching related to comics art”.
- ImageText (Ed.: Donald Ault) - ImageTexT publishes solicited and peer-reviewed papers that investigate the material, historical, theoretical, and cultural implications of visual textuality
- Refractory (Edited by Angela Ndalianis) - A Journal of Entertainment Media; a quarterly e-journal dedicated to the exploration of movies, games, and the mass entertainment experience
Parallel Worlds and Multiversal Theory
Continuity Projects
- RECENT Multiversal Omnipedia Atlas (wiki) - “intended to, in the end, be a complete catalog of all the people, places, items, events, and other things in all dramatic fiction”
Individual Earths
- Earth-349 (Anton Psychopoulos) - Fan fiction universe inspired by Superman #349 where Mixy created a world where everybodies gender was inverted.