Comics Over Time

Murdock and Marvel: 2025

Episode 99 - Murdock and Marvel: 2025 In a year so recent that we don’t even have Eisners for it yet, comics continued to thrive and movie ticket sales continued to dive.

Murdock and Marvel: 2024

Episode 98 - Murdock and Marvel: 2024 Can comics survive without big-screen movies to prop them up?  Yes, it appears they can.  It was another great year for comics in st

Murdock and Marvel: 2023

Episode 97 - Murdock and Marvel: 2023 The pandemic book that brought comics to their highest sales figures ever finally ended, and sales dropped about 7% from 2022’s all-

Murdock and Marvel: 2022

Episode 96 - Murdock and Marvel: 2022 It was a good year for comics, with things being stable, but still pointing up.  In the movie world, though, there were some dangero

Murdock and Marvel: 2021

Episode 95 - Murdock and Marvel: 2021 As the Covid-19 pandemic entered its second year comics continued to charge forward, with the unchallenged biggest year in the histo

Murdock and Marvel: 2020

Episode 94 - Murdock and Marvel: 2020 In case you don’t remember, 2020 pretty much sucked.  Comics did not escape the vortex of Covid-19 and its associated disruptions an

Murdock and Marvel: 2019

Episode 93 - Murdock and Marvel: 2019 In 2019 Marvel Studios completed the most ambitious movie cycle in history with its 2 billion dollar Avengers: Endgame masterpiece,

Murdock and Marvel: 2018

Episode 92 - Murdock and Marvel: 2018 It was a great year for comics, everywhere except the shops, and movies, graphic novels and TV continued to do well.  The Year in C

Murdock and Marvel: 2017

Episode 91 - Murdock and Marvel: 2017 It was a big year for comics in theaters, but local comic shops did not do nearly as well, with sales diving substantially from 2016

Murdock and Marvel: 2016

Episode 90 - Murdock and Marvel: 2016 TBD The Year in Comics  Comics in Other Media Comic Sales Top Comics News Notable Passings Marvel Eisner Awards The Year in

Murdock and Marvel: 2015 Part 2

Episode 89 - Murdock and Marvel: 2015 Part 2 2015 was a turning point for the American comic industry in a number of ways, and seems to be a satisfying place to wrap up o

Murdock and Marvel: 2015 Part 1

Episode 88 - Murdock and Marvel: 2015 Part 1 2015 was a turning point for the American comic industry in a number of ways, and seems to be a satisfying place to wrap up o

Murdock and Marvel: 2014 Part 2

Episode 87 - Murdock and Marvel: 2014 Part 2 2014 saw some sales figures that had not been achieved in decades, and pop culture was filled with comic book related movies

Murdock and Marvel: 2014 Part 1

Episode 86 - Murdock and Marvel: 2014 Part 1 2014 saw some sales figures that had not been achieved in decades, and pop culture was filled with comic book related movies

Murdock and Marvel: 2013 Part 2

Episode 85 - Murdock and Marvel: 2013 Part 2 It was a pretty monumental year in comics, in the opinion of your humble co-host.  2013 is probably the best year for new com

Murdock and Marvel: 2013 Part 1

Episode 84 - Murdock and Marvel: 2013 Part 1 It was a pretty monumental year in comics, in the opinion of your humble co-host.  2013 is probably the best year for new com

Murdock and Marvel: 2012 Part 2

Episode 83 - Murdock and Marvel: 2012 Part 2 2012 was a year when the big news in comics all happened outside of shops, with movie theaters and social media dominating th

Murdock and Marvel: 2012 Part 1

Episode 82 - Murdock and Marvel: 2012 Part 1 2012 was a year when the big news in comics all happened outside of shops, with movie theaters and social media dominating th

Murdock and Marvel: 2011 Part 2

Episode 81 - Murdock and Marvel: 2011 Part 2 It was a quiet year in the comics world, but there were a lot of developments going on behind the scenes, and up on the scree

Murdock and Marvel: 2011 Part 1

Episode 80 - Murdock and Marvel: 2011 Part 1 It was a quiet year in the comics world, but there were a lot of developments going on behind the scenes, and up on the scree