Marco Vito Oddo is a writer, journalist, and amateur game designer. Passionate about superhero comic books, horror films, and indie games, he formally worked as a Senior Writer for Collider. When he's ...

What does William Peter Blatty have to do with Mystery Men Comics #3? Well, a reader named William Blatty was chosen as a contest winner of a one-dollar prize for the best letters received explaining ...

Traditionally known as Carol (Janeane Garofalo), she became The Bowler in the wake of her superhero father's untimely death. A known hero of Champion City, Carmine the Bowler perished at the hands of ...

The mystery men are upstaged by Captain Amazing | Mystery Men In the opening of Mystery Men (1999), the earnest but inept trio of amateur heroes are sidelined when the heavily sponsored Captain ...

Like a few other Golden Age publishers, Fox Feature Syndicate titles sometimes verged into horror well before the late-1940s era which is generally considered to mark the beginning of the Pre-Code ...

He recalled Reubens bringing humor to the set by riding a scooter and announcing lunch to the cast and crew in character "To watch Pee-wee's Playhouse like I did ... and then to find out that he's in ...

In 1999, Ben Stiller got to play a superhero. Well, kind of. You see, he was one of the leads in Universal’s big-budget superhero comedy Mystery Men. The first (and last) movie directed by noted ...

Its heroes, whose powers are every bit as poor as their home-stitched costumes, include Mr Furious (Stiller), who gets a bit cross; The Shoveler (William H Macy), who's handy with, well, a shovel; the ...

Collects Mystery Men #1-5, Daring Mystery Comics 70th Anniversary Special #1. Meet Marvel’s never-before-seen heroes of the 1930s! With a new evil washing over an unsuspecting New York City, the ...