John Jackson Miller

Comichron founder John Jackson Miller has tracked the comics industry for more than 25 years, including a decade editing the industry’s retail trade magazine; he is the author of several guides to comics, as well as more than a hundred comic books for various franchises. He is the author of novels including Star Wars: Kenobi, Star Wars: A New Dawn, Star Trek: Discovery – The Enterprise War, and his upcoming release, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The High Country. Read more about them at his fiction site. Be sure to follow Comichron on Twitter and Facebook, and check out our Youtube channel. You can also support us on Patreon!

Happy 90th birthday, Stan Lee!

Friday is the 90th birthday for Stan Lee, peerless purveyor of four-color fantasies, and it’s a day I’m pleased to commemorate here by sharing the cover of Comics Buyer’s Guide #1258, from fifteen years ago: Marie Severin drew the above cover for a special 75th birthday issue, which I organized along with the CBG staff … Read more

Overstreet Guide to Collecting Comics in stores today

Reference work plug: Just a note that your archivist is among many comics collectors and creators profiled in the new Overstreet Guide to Collecting Comics, available today from your local comics shop, as well as from Gemstone Publishing. (See my excerpt here.) A full color, 336-page, comic book-size trade paperback, the book is a fun … Read more

The Hostess comics ads

Hostess has asked a court to allow it to go into bankruptcy, selling its iconic brands — and it is of interest to comics fans because of an iconic series of advertisements that appeared in comic books in the mid- and late 1970s. The one-page comic ads appeared in Marvel, DC, Harvey, Archie, and Gold … Read more