Gerry Conway, a renowned comic book writer who helped create characters and stories for Marvel and DC, including the Punisher character in the Spider-Man comics, has died.

Marvel returns to form with “Thunderbolts,” while Nicolas Cage shines in “The Surfer.”

An emotional Harrison Ford has unveiled a trailer for the fifth Indiana Jones film, saying this one will be his last.

A particularly prized copy of the first-ever Marvel comic book has fetched more than $2.4 million in an online auction.

A single page of artwork from a Spider-Man comic book sold at auction for a record $3.36 million.

Disney on Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, announced a five-year exclusive TV deal with Cooglers Proximity Media company that includes development of a series based in the Kingdom of Wakanda from Cooglers Black Panther blockbuster. (Photo by Phil McCarten/Invision/AP, File)LOS ANGELES – The Kingdom of Wakanda is staking out turf on the Disney + streaming service. A TV series set in the “Black Panther” kingdom will be developed as part of a five-year, exclusive television deal the Walt Disney Co. announced Monday with filmmaker Ryan Coogler’s Proximity Media company. Coogler wrote and directed 2018’s “Black Panther,” a box-office hit that turned Chadwick Boseman into a superstar. The Black Panther character was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for Marvel Comics, which became part of Disney in 2009 when the media giant acquired Marvel Entertainment.

Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for IMDb(CNN) - Comic-Con is a festive event, as an estimated 130,000 attendees descend on San Diego, many of them clad in colorful costumes. But part of this year's 50th edition of the annual gathering will have a somewhat more somber tone, marking the first convention since the death of Marvel patriarch Stan Lee. "Stan became the face of Marvel because there was no advertising, marketing or publicity department at Marvel," said Danny Fingeroth, a former writer and editor at Marvel Comics whose biography "A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee" will be published in the fall. "No matter who was listening or not listening, Stan was always there waving that Marvel flag." For an industry veteran like Levitz, the growth of Comic-Con reflects a manifestation of that process, as well as evidence of what Lee's dogged, ebullient salesmanship helped foster.