It's BobRo the Answer Man!

Welcome to 2002. And welcome back to my ongoing report on the Comicmobile. As you know if you’ve read the previous installments (and, if you haven’t, they’re just a click away in the Archives you can...

The holiday season usually affords me some time to catch up on my reading, especially of hardcovers, trade paperbacks, and “prestige” miniseries that have piled up. Herewith are comments on some that have...

Christmas Traditions and Memories… Every year for as long as I can remember, I have spent part of Christmas Eve watching “A Christmas Carol” on television. The 1951 version with Alistair Sim as...

A large portion of DC’s line in 1973 was made up of the “mystery” titles. Though far more sanitized than the EC titles of the early fifties and nowhere near as graphic as some of today’s books, they...

During my tenure as driver of the DC Comicmobile back in the summer of 1973, I was able to gather a lot of information about what kinds of books sold and to whom. I had issues of more than fifty different DC...

After about three weeks after I started working at DC Comics (then called National Periodical Publications) back in 1973, I arrived at the office one morning and was confronted by Vice President / Production...

Hey, Bob, since you wrote lots of Superboy stories over the years, what do you think of the new “Smallville” TV series and what it does with continuity? It takes place in the present day… the meteor...

I have one of the 120,000 “first collectors’ issue” copies of THE X-FILES comic and some of the silver and embossed X-FILE cards, all in mint condition. Do you think I could get anything for them? Mer...

I'm out of town at a conference this week, so I'm taking the opportunity to run an article by John Wells, my Official Unofficial Researcher, discussing some of the lesser-known villains I had a hand in...

Questions posed in past weeks get answered this time around... The Russell Carley "script continuity" credit has been explained in various places but the most detailed was in a Peter Sanderson article in...

I have an old 80's X-MEN comic. I can't remember the issue number, but it’s the end of the first Brood saga. It appears to have been the subject of a printing error -- the issue starts midway into the story...

DC's recently-released BIZARRO COMICS anthology is a 240-page hardcover featuring all-new material, and it has a cover price of $29.95. The DC Archive Editions are about that same size, and yet they cost...

Once more, it’s time to dive into the emailbox and answer your questions… Back in the Silver Age (or maybe the Golden Age), Wonder Woman seemed to have a couple of unique vulnerabilities dealing with...

One of the features when I wrote my Answer Man column for DC Comics back in the 80s was the “What’s It Worth?” department. We’ll take a brief foray into those types of questions this week… How do...

This week’s column is a potpourri of questions as I continue to dig through my emailbox, beginning with some Batman-related Qs… Was Frank Miller the first writer to dub Batman “the Dark Knight” or...