Oh, no! Captain America dead?

Inside Bay Area - Oh, no! Captain America dead?:

"Holy homicide, Batman!
Captain America is dead!
Assassinated, in fact, as he walks into a federal courthouse in New York, under arrest and in handcuffs, headed to his arraignment for refusing to sign the government's Superhero Registration Act and forcibly revealing his true identity.
It all happens in the latest edition of Marvel Comics, Captain America No. 25, which hit newsstands Wednesday and immediately flew off the shelves of Bay Area comic book dealers.
'It caught me completely off-guard,' said Lennie Chancey, owner of Comic Ink in Dublin. 'I didn't know about it until the news popped up on my computer in the morning and I read about it.'
Typically, comic book store owners are told in advance that a major issue like this is coming so they can order extra copies. This time, they found out the same time most everyone else did.
Chancey immediately called his distributor to get more copies, but the distributor didn't have any more.
Comic Ink had 40 copies of the $3.99 book at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday and had sold them all by 1:30 p.m., Chancey said.from Business 1
Similarly, Lee's Comics in San Mateo sold 65 issues in a few hours, a store employee said.
Captain America first appeared in March 1941 as a World War II super soldier and became the
most popular of the purely patriotic comic characters drawn up for wartime duty and by far the most enduring of them. "

A Different Web Comic Model

A Different Web Comic Model:

"In February 2007, Gary Reed, the publisher of Caliber, the comic book publisher who spearheaded several innovative series by many talents from North America, England and Europe, announced that they would offer the publisher’s library of titles as Adobe Acrobat downloads for $1.99 Over the years several online companies have tried to offer comic books in other format than paper.

In the 1990s, some publishers tried to offer comic books as CD-ROM compilations which would be viewed on a screen. Meanwhile, online comic books began to flourish with the development of the Internet. Today, there are several vendors offering online comic books, which often is similar music downloads. "

The Original Bat-Girl

Bette Kane is a fictional character in DC comics. She first appeared in the sixties as "Betty Kane", the Bat-Girl. Later, her character history was retconned and she took on the mantle of Flamebird.

The original Bat-Girl was Betty Kane (first appearance: Batman #139, 1961), the niece of Kathy Kane, Batwoman.

Batwoman and Bat-Girl were created to be romantic interests for Batman and Robin, respectively, as well as wannabe crime-fighting associates. Bat-Girl wore a red-and-green costume to "flatter" Robin. Bat-Girl appeared seven times between 1961 and 1964, but then disappeared in 1964 (along with Batwoman, Ace the Bat-Hound, and Bat-Mite) when new Batman editor Julius Schwartz decided she and other characters were too silly. It has been suggested by scholars that the characters of Batwoman (in 1956) and Bat-Girl (in 1961) were introduced in part to refute allegations of homosexuality in Batman comics; specifically, the enduring claim that Batman and Robin were homosexuals. [1]

Batwoman and Bat-Girl were later revived in the late 1970s. Bat-Girl even became a member of the Teen Titans West. However, she only appeared four times in this era.

Baby Doll

Mary Louise Dahl, aka Baby Doll, is a fictional villain in the Batman universe, invented exclusively for the original animated series. Alison LaPlaca initially provided Baby Doll's voice. In her second appearance, Baby Doll's voice was supplied by Saturday Night Live alumna Laraine Newman. She has only appeared in two episodes of Batman: The Animated Series.