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No this is not clickbait. Clickbait suggests that a salacious or sensationalist headline is used to get traffic to an article that doesn't follow up on

JHU is the comic store in Manhattan that everyone calls Jim Hanley's, even though it isn't. There used to be the comic book store, Jim Hanley's Universe,

Writer of DC Comics' Red Hood & The Outlaws and Aspen's No World, Scott Lobdell, has signed with Abrams Artists Agency and Zero Gravity Management for film, television, and new media.

ComiXology may be owned by Amazon, but it often doesn't get to share in the massive discounts on Marvel collections that often run on the Kindle. Until today -- where collection upon collection, from $11 to $19.99, are all priced at 99 cents.

Courtesy of DC Comics PR department and media partner Syfy, we have the news that Simone is creating a new Plastic Man series spinning out of The Terrifics with Adriana Melo, who has worked with Simone on Birds of Prey and Rose & Thorn.

It may not have made the Bleeding Cool Bestseller List -- but some retailers reported the True Believers: Venom vs. Spider-Man reprint of Amazing Spider-Man #300, published by Marvel Comics for one dollar, made it into their individual top 10 lists.

Christopher Eccleston recently told the Guardian about his decision to leave Doctor Who, saying, "What happened around Doctor Who almost destroyed my career. I gave them a hit show and I left with dignity and then they put me on a blacklist." That has been seized upon by Who fandom online.

Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau has his retailer eclusive cover variant for Action Comics #1000 to add to the list from BuyMeToys.com, in both standard version for

Ian Melton went to ECCC in Seattle a week-and-a-bit ago for Bleeding Cool. This is what he remembers... For Marvel’s second panel of 2018, several Marvel

Retailers attending the upcoming 2018 Diamond Retailer Summit in Chicago, held just before (and slightly during) C2E2 will be getting a special "Thank You

Remember when Marvel comics started with everyone standing around calling everyone by their name so that the reader knew who was who? And how, it always

Scottish publisher BHP Comics has signed up comic creators Dave Cook and Craig Paton's new series Killtopia after a very successful Kickstarter campaign

Speaking to the Guardian newspaper today, Christopher Eccleston has talked about leaving Doctor Who in 2005 after the first year - and maybe giving new

French comic book publisher Glenat has been putting out new Conan comic books, based on the original stories by Ronald E Howard, now that the property is

Cost comparison UK website Money Supermarket has run a series of intentionally eyecatching, talked-about adverts designed to provoke in one way or

New tv spot for the upcoming Marvel "Avengers: Infinity War" features brand new Thanos moment, promising "The End is Near".

So we get a big picture for Brian Michael Bendis, Ivan Reis, and friends' Man of Steel six-issue weekly mini-series beginning on May 30th, ahead of Action

With all the amount of imprints and lines at DC Comics, whatever it is that Joshua Williamson of Flash, Nailbiter, Birthright, Captain Midnight and loads

The Comic Shop LLC in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, is closing -- and they are having a store-wide sale to clear stock. However, in keeping with the store's history, they are donating 10% of all sale proceeds to animal welfare charities.

On this week's Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, Batman totally takes the top. It's tradition. But interestingly, it was nowhere near the clean sweep it usually is across stores, often topped by White Knight, Oblivion Song and Amazing Spider-Man, which all clustered around the top, pushing The Walking Dead back.

The comics industry expresses concern over Stan Lee's home situation, a dispute between Afro Comic Con and a cosplay photographer, Roddenberry releases Star Trek Starfleet moto jackets, and more geeky news from the past week.

Here are the top 100 comic books and graphic novels ordered by comic book stores in North America in January through the direct market serviced by Diamond

Geoff Weber writes, It was all up to me. I had a comic that had to be finished that same night, but it was four pages short! My friends and I had started

Brandon Wainerdi went to the DC Press Breakfast this morning at SXSW for Bleeding Cool. Yeah, he has "nerd" in his surname, but he could drop you as soon

POW Entertainment is the LA intellectual property and appearance company founded by Stan Lee. It was bought in August last year by Chinese company Camsing International, with Lee remaining as CCO. And it is attempting, once again, to register the trademark "Stan Lee".

At SXSW, current Action Comics writer Dan Jurgens told the assembled crowd that his final story for Superman in Action Comics #1000 will reference that Moore/Gibbons story in title, called From The City Who Has Everything, a deliberate play on words.

These were given away today at the DC Comics event at SXSW — it looks like DC is fully embracing the return of Superman's red shorts.

Man, this has been some time coming. But mentioned at the DC Comics SXSW event today in Austin, Texas, with Jim Lee, Frank Miller, Dan Jurgens and Brian

I remember joking with Comics Alliance's Andrew Wheeler when he worked for Google about Google starting its own Google Comics and putting Marvel and DC

Philip Cruise writes, We are incredibly excited to be in production for the World Premiere of Emmy-award winning cartoonist Dean Haspiel's new work "The