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Until the financiapocalypse, the bargain bin was known more for the final resting place of "Tales of G.I. Joe" variant covers than real deals. Not anymore. Now the recession special's the name of the Comic-Con game. Here's seven ten-buck deals. More »
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Forget avian flu; a "swine flu" that's already killed eighteen people in Mexico seems to have come to the US, and the World Health Organization are discussing whether or not to declare it a pandemic. More »
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Hopefully you weren't planning to make any last-minute plans for next week's San Diego Comic-Con, because for the first time in the show's history, all four days of the show are sold out before the con even begins. You may think that the organizers would be happy about that, but as Comic-Con International's Director of Marketing and Public Relations David Glanzer explains, nothing could be further from the truth. More »
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Entertainment Weekly's Marc Bernadin picks up on a little-noticed comment from comics historian Peter Sanderson about the real impact of the WGA writers strike to ask "What about the San Diego Comic-Con?" More »
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At the height of the Great Depression, the organizers of the 1930 San Diego Exposition thought that a horny robot and a vanguard of big-breasted nudist women might help cheer people up. "Zorine the Queen of the Nudists" and "Alpha the Mechanical Man" were two different exhibits appearing at the event, and history has left this priceless photo behind for us as a memento of their encounter. Where else could you find a robot with sixteen boobs? More »
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