This Thursday at New York Comic Con, BOOM! Studios is going to be presenting a panel based on their upcoming WWE comics, starting off with WWE: Then. Now. Forever. It’ll be held in Room 1A21 at 5:15 and will feature the likes of editors Bryce Carlson, Eric Hardburn, Jasmine Amiri, and writer Dennis Hopeless.

Also, I’m going to be moderating it. So that rules.

For 25 years, WWE in its various forms has been published by all sorts of companies and played with by all kinds of name talent. A couple of them were rather fun and inventive, but many of them didn’t work out and they died quiet deaths. One of these comics has a spot as the all-time worst comic book I have ever read…but I’m getting ahead of myself.

Let’s start off in 1991 with Valiant Comics’ WWF Battlemania. The series lasted five issues, released bi-monthly. While nothing to set the world on fire, it at least had some admittedly cool aspects to it. Half of the stories were drawn by none other than Steve Ditko of all people, so if you’ve ever wanted to see Spider-Man’s co-creator draw the Big Boss Man fighting the Undertaker, do I have the comic for you!