#Warner Books

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Vernon Howard - The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power - Warner - 1976

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Batman (1989)

Novelization of the film by Craig Shaw Gardner

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When The Wolves Were Running

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Coral by Petra Leigh, cover art Walter Wyles, Warner Books

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"Dark Kingdom" by Frank Frazetta.

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(Late Edition) This day The Looney Tunes Show was released

[retrogirlsbooks]

Facets by Barbara Delinsky

Cover illustration by Anne Twomey and David Zimmerman

ISBN 0-446-35945-9

[theclinch]

Witch Woman by Elizabeth Evelyn Allen

Art by Pino Daeni

Published 1987 by Warner Books

ISBN 9780446345491

[definitelynotisabel]

wtf do people without fandoms do with their life? like actually what do you do when you don’t have something to dangerously obsess over. the last time i wasn’t a part of a fandom was in fourth grade.

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

John Magus - The Sacrifice - Warner - ? (goat figure on cover inspired by Tom Adam's design for John Fowles' 1965 edition of 'The Magus')

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@warneraaronanderson @warnerslove

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 077 & 078

Stan Lee Presents Captain America

Roger Stern / John Byrne / Josef Rubinstein

Marvel Illustrated Books 1982

Superman and Spider-Man

Jim Shooter / John Buscema / Joe Sinnott

Warner Books 1981

The next few entries are books that I had as a kid, and I was thrilled when copies came through the bookstore. Publishing oddities, these mass markets never really caught on, but I loved them.

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Therapy is expensive, Daydreaming about fictional characters is not.

[mooncrvmbs]

another day without a morally grey fictional man who would commit arson for me

[superectojazzmage]

My Adventures With Superman is honestly a really impressively good example of how you can make an adaptation radically different and new while still doing justice to the source material by just approaching said source from a place of love and respect. The show is unabashedly and upfrontly meant to be a very explorative and experimental take on Superman that does the classic premise in new ways, revamped for another time and medium.

So many of the characters, designs, aesthetics, and world feel so extremely unfamiliar and unlike “traditional” Superman. But it still FEELS like Superman. The core, the spirit, the SOUL is absolutely and unmistakably there. The characters are all incredibly in-character and instantly recognizable. The plotting and writing feels straight off the page of the comic.

Even with major reinventions, this is so obviously and clearly Superman. Not some hoary “deconstruction” or obnoxiously self-aware “parody”, it’s just unabashedly honest-to-God played absolutely straight Superman. Even through all the changes, it’s that same classic, undistilled, nostalgic vibe of a Superman comic with Clark as a lovable, goofy guy with powers trying to be an example to the world, fighting crazy bad guys, helping old ladies across the street, and winking to the reader after Lois and Jimmy fail to see through his disguise yet again before cringing because Perry yelled at him for calling Perry “chief” again.

Hot, overeager tomboy Lois Lane is a bit different from usual but she’s so clearly still that same gorgeous would-be star reporter that every Superman falls in love with. Jimmy has been reimagines as kooky conspiracy buff, but he’s still ultimately Superman’s Pal who gets into wacky situations by virtue of being Superman’s Pal. Perry, Lombard, Ronnie, and Cat are all very different from the comics superficially — hell, Ronnie has had his gender flipped — but they are all still instantly recognizable as the same eccentric bunch of newsfolk they were there. Livewire and the Intergang members are all totally changed but at their center, they’re the same; same powers and gimmicks, etc.. Dr. Ivo is now a douchey techbro and yet he’s still fulfilling the very same role he does in the comics as a self-centered mad scientist who creates things that spiral beyond his control. Even Parasite, the most radically altered of all to the point of no longer being sentient, is still identifiable as his core concept of a monster that feeds on the lifeforce of others and becomes more powerful as he does, while also weakening when he can’t do so.

I really, really like it. It’s a wonderfully imaginative and well-put-together take on a very old series that really brings the concept into the modern age in a way that hasn’t really been done successfully outside the comics since the DCAU back in the 90s and early 2000s. People writing Superman or just superhero fiction in general should absolutely take notes from this show.

[averyriskygamble1989]

Reading is both beautiful and annoying at the same time because wdym I’m falling in love with the most perfect men in the world who also happen to be fictional 🤨🤨🤨