Marvel Comics sent comic book retailers a special secret Fantastic Four thing for Marvel 616 Day
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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from The Union Club on Greek Street, shops at Gosh, Piranha and FP. Father of two daughters. Political cartoonist.
As Jim Lee and Jeph Loeb Batman comics get later and later, anyone fancy a fill-in from Tony S Daniel and Mark Morales?
Marvel's Full One World Under Doom September 2025 Solicits sees Doctor Doom's secret exposed... but does anyone care?
PrintWatch: Absolute, Ultimate, Invincible, One World Under Doom get second, third, and fourth printings...
Diamond Comic Distributors drops their No Cost Returns Service for publishers, and demands retailer bank details, today
Marvel Comics brings back Franklin Richards: Son Of A Genius by Marc Sumerak and Chris Eliopoulos for 2025
Diamond Comic Distributors challenges Dynamite Entertainment's half-a-million expenses claim, in legal filing
Marvel Comics' Storm: Thunder War solicits and solicitations for September 2025 by Murewa Ayodele and Mario Santoro
Erik Per Sullivan not returning to the Malcolm in the Middle revival in The Daily LITG, for the 13th of June, 2025
Amazing Adventures, with Alyssa Wong, Leinil Yu and CB Cebulski, the Marvel comic you can only get on the Disney Adventure.
The Gail Simone definition of "fridge" is now in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Worth A Shot, a new YA Graphic Novel by Pocket Peaches' Dora Wang from Joy Revolution
A graphic novel about Opal Lee and Juneteenth, by Angélique Roché, Alvin Epps, Bex Glendining and Millicent Monroe from Oni Press.
TOLDJA: Imperial War: Exiles and Imperial War: Nova - Centurion, launching from Marvel Comics in May... but where are the Imperial Guardians?
Ignition Press signs up a comic book distribution deal with Penguin Random House, starting in September 2025.
TOLDJA: Dan Watters & Morgan Beem on IDW's Twilight Zone #1 in September, Tom Scioli, James Stokoe, Nate Powell, Francesco Francavilla follow
Botticelli's Apprentice's Ursula Murray Husted sells world rights to Growing Together, her new graphic novel.
H2SH: Batman #162 and 163 by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee will both now be two months late from DC Comics, September and October respectively
Kevin Smith writing Spider-Man was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround
616 Day identifies the moment that began the Marvel Universe in Giant Size Spider-Man #1 from Al Ewing and Mark Buckingham (Spoilers)
Aquaman #6 end page reveal will activate the next Big DC Comics Event for 2025 and 2026... Spoilers of course
Mark Waid rewrites that Zack Snyder scene with Pa Kent and Superman for DC Comics (Action Comics #1087 Spoilers)
Hermes Press hires Steve Leaf as their new Sales Director, formerly of Diamond Comic Distributors for over thirty years
DC Comics confirms that Clark Kent and Superman's birthday is June the Eighteenth once more (Spoilers)
Jimmy Palmiotti promises free sketches with every Jonah Hex Omnibus you bring him to sign at a show
How and why do the three Wonder Women meet? Trinity Daughter Of Wonder Woman spoilers ahead...
This is how you know you are reading a Kevin Smith Spider-Man comic book from Marvel Comics... (Spider-Spoilers)
New Avengers #1 ( Sam Humphries & Ton Lima) One World Under Doom #1 (Ryan North & RB Silva) Runaways #1 (Rainbow Rowell & Elena Casagrande)
Marvel Comics is to launch a new Kid Venom Team-Up series in 2026, spinning out of Giant-Size Spider-Man #1 out today (Spoilers)
DC Comics' Ten-Year Plan was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround.