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Harrison Ford fedora from Raiders of the Lost Ark eclipses $500,000 at auction
Coming in at about the same price as the actor’s screen-used prop blaster from Return of the Jedi this summer (discussed here at borg), Harrison Ford proved again he is #1 among pop culture and...
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The past catches up with Han and Lando in Star Wars: Last Shot
Review by C.J. Bunce When Lando Calrissian showed up on the doorstep of Han Solo and Leia with a toddler Ben in tow, Han knew the outcome couldn’t be anything good. In Daniel José Older‘s novel Star...
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Infogothic–New guide takes you back in time to the age of Hammer horror films
Review by C.J. Bunce For a generation of film fans, the words “Hammer Horror” are synonymous with the first color horror movies and studio stars Peter Cushing and David Prowse, who would go on to find...
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borg Hall of Fame 2018
It’s been another long year of great entertainment. Before we wrap our coverage of 2018, it’s time for the sixth annual round of new honorees for the borg Hall of Fame. We have plenty of honorees...
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Concept artist Colin Cantwell reveals images of earliest Star Wars ship...
Known for providing George Lucas with the original designs for several spaceships for the original Star Wars, concept artist Colin Cantwell has revealed photographs of his actual model ships created...
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Get your Valentine a dozen Roses for $19.99, Star Wars style
It’s one of the strangest marketing ideas yet. And it’s a limited time offer for Valentine’s Day. This is one of those ideas tailored for Star Wars fans–big fans–of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and in...
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New York Toy Fair 2019–Target previews first wave of vintage, retro-style...
Getting a jumpstart on Hasbro‘s announcement from New York Toy Fair 2019 of a new, retro line of classic 3.75-inch Kenner-branded action figures, Target has listed the first figures on its website....
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Previews–Books look back to the beginning of the nine-part Star Wars saga and...
No one could have predicted when the original Star Wars won six of ten Academy Awards in 1978 that a new Star Wars film would be nominated 41 years later. At the end of 2019 all will be known–with...
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Retro fix–The ultimate Star Wars toy auction doubles as the ultimate toy catalog
Anyone who grew up with the original Star Wars trilogy also grew up with the Kenner line of action figures and other toys. Eagerly awaiting kids learned about each new figure and each new ship and...
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Celebrities from TV and film head to Planet Comicon Kansas City in two weeks
Captain Kirk, The Fonz, Chewbacca, The Flash, Starbuck, the Weasleys, two Supermans, Tank Girl, and a slate of characters from The Princess Bride are heading to Kansas City For twenty years Planet...
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Planet Comicon Kansas City 2019 is a wrap
Happy April! Planet Comicon Kansas City wrapped its 2019 convention yesterday, another great show this time highlighting the event’s 20th anniversary. We snapped several photographs of sights we’re...
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First teaser trailer–and title–arrive for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
The end is near. At Star Wars Celebration in Chicago today, director J.J. Abrams and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy revealed the title and first teaser for Star Wars Episode IX in a panel...
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A tribute to Peter Mayhew, 1944-2019
Peter Mayhew, the actor known best for playing Chewbacca in all three Star Wars trilogies, passed away Tuesday, April 30, 2019, according to a message distributed by his family yesterday. I was lucky...
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Free Comic Book Day returns for May the Fourth–Star Wars Day 2019
The annual Star Wars Day, May the Fourth, is back again–an excuse to watch the movies again and meet up with friends and talk all things of a galaxy far, far away. And again it is overlapping with...
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Valance the borg hunter, Jaxxon, and more return as Marvel Comics brings back...
Review by C.J. Bunce Let’s take a trip back 33 years ago to a galaxy not all that far away. It was my very first issue of the only comic book I ever subscribed to. It was the end of the school...
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Smuggler Jaxxon returns to more of the canon Star Wars saga this summer
Jaxxon, the mercenary rabbit, first appeared in the original Marvel Comics Star Wars, Issue #8, published in November 1977. The issue was written and drawn by Howard Chaykin, co-written by Roy Thomas...
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The Making of Alien–An enthralling 40th anniversary gift to Alien fans...
Review by C.J. Bunce So many books that go behind the scenes of films take a similar approach, skimming the surface with interviews of only top production heads, providing diehard fans of the property...
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Retro fix–Vintage Star Wars action figures return… again
The Star Wars vintage Kenner action figures changed toys and franchising forever. Sales of this line were so successful that it’s no surprise the fan nostalgia for these 3.75-inch figures in new...
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Reflections on The Muppet Movie, back on the big screen 40 years later
Review by C.J. Bunce Thanks to Fathom Events and other film retrospectives over the years, movie audiences can revisit their first viewings of some of the best films ever made. In that league comes...
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Preview–New Star Wars artist’s edition reprints original Walter Simonson...
Before Walter Simonson and Tom Palmer collaborated on their stunning adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back, they joined forces to create a great run of stories in the pages of Marvel Comics’ original...
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