The comic book genre had yet to be established as a significant box office earner, and was seen as more high-risk than some other types of movies. Blade definitively proved that more mature ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Mark Hughes is an entertainment writer covering cinema and genre TV. As discussion continues over whether creators and filmmakers who work ...

The decline of newsstands and the rise of comic book specialty shops meant that publishers could be more daring in the types of comics that they produced, and several independent publishers were ...