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On February 21st, Marvel Comics is putting out second prints of two of its recent comics, Old Man Hawkeye #1 and Venom #160. The first printing of Old Man Hawkeye #2 and the first printing of Venom #161 will come out the week before, for Valentine's Day.

Neil Gaiman took to the web today to announce Norse Mythology in paperback, in the US, Canada and the UK, March 6th for $15.95 USD with extra notes and stuff not in the hardback.

Dark Horse has revealed art from Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander, the highly anticipated companion to Frank Miller’s award-winning series 300.

Marvel Comics is a company that is all about the bottom line. With a chair in Ike Perlmutter, if it's not making money, it is out of the door. But how do some comics survive and others don't?

This weekend we told you that we were expecting a big move and a big hire at Marvel Comics, and this is it. John Nee is Marvel's big hire as the new Publisher of Marvel Entertainment.

Comics Experience is an educational company dedicated to teaching the craft of creating comics -- from writing a script, to laying out a page, to

C.B. Cebulski is the new Marvel Comics Editor-In-Chief. His credit appears for the first time in that role in last week's Marvel Comics. Bleeding Cool was

The Eisner Awards judges have selected two individuals to automatically be inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame for 2018. These

It's a new year but its freezing cold everywhere it seems. And a new creative team starting on tomorrow's Harley Quinn comic book. But Frank Cho is

Venom #162 and Venom #163 were solicited with art by Wil Robson. Both issues will now be drawn by Edgar Salazar. VENOM #162 (W) Cullen Bunn (A) Edgar

Comic book creator and co-creator of Tank Girl and the band Gorillaz, Jamie Hewlett, was a guest on BBC Radio 4's Front Row arts show talking about his life and work and, during the bits about other people, drawing the show's presenter Stig Abel.

Once upon a time, a couple of decades and more ago, Rick Veitch wrote and drew a comic book called Brat Pack, published by Tundra. It was a story about

The dimension-shifting comic storyline Power Rangers: Shattered Grid sees Lord Drakkon — a twisted alternate-reality version of Tommy Oliver, the Green Power Ranger moving against the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in April's titles from Boom! Studios, but it appears they have a ringer.

Valiant Entertainment is bringing Shadowman back as an ongoing series by Andy Diggle and Stephen Segovia. And for the first issue, in classic Valiant fashion, they are making a rare variant cover that's glow-in-the-dark.

Bleeding Cool has often been the first to let you know about any corporate shakeups in the comics world — and now we have learned that there more, and possibly bigger, changes to come at Marvel Comics.

We had a little look at the Top 500 sales of comics to comic stores in December 2017, and we noted that Marvel didn't seem to be discounting new comics as much as they had in the past. But one thing was clear: Marvel Legacy sales had fallen well back since their lenticular cover not-a-relaunch.

Here are the Top 500 ordered trade paperbacks and graphic novels for December 2017 by North American comic book stores through Diamond Comic Distributors, and made available by them, too. Notably, the top book, Saga Vol. 8, sold four times more than the second best-seller, Batman: The War of Jokes and Riddles.

Here's the Top 500 ordered comic books for December 2017 by North American comic book stores through Diamond Comic Distributors, and made available by

The year's results are in courtesy of Diamond Comic Distributors. These numbers reflect sales of comics to comic stores by Diamond Comic Distributors in

Comic book fan Charles Baca took a select number of comic books to ACE Comic Con in Glendale, Arizona over the weekend, only to find them stolen, along

Bleeding Cool has been covering the legal battle between Monster Energy Drinks and Marvel Comics over the latter's trademark registration of the words

That was a late Loot Crate. The Christmas schedule must have made the International post look both higgledy and piggledy. It had a ship date of the 22nd

Anyone trying to register a trademark with a white upper image of a skull, front-on, on a black background, be warned. Marvel lawyers are after you.

Marvel Comics has registered a trademark under the name "Multiple Man" for a long list of publishing and merchandise-related items, including publications, books, office and school supplies, temporary tattoo transfers, and more.

Today sees the new Avengers weekly book... not quite top the charts. There was, after all, a Batman book out this week. But it did top Mister Miracle, which still performs miracles. And talking of miracles... Red Hood and the Outlaws peeps into the chart for the first time.

Brave fans march on Burbank to demand a Zack Snyder cut of Justice League, a Disney Parks Black Panther pin raises some eyebrows, allegations of sexual abuse against Marvel's Stan Lee, and more geeky news from the past week.

Mike Read was a BBC Radio One DJ in the heydays of the eighties, presenting Top Of The Pops on TV and the Saturday Superstore kids TV show, at the time

Legendary British actor Miriam Margolyes appeared this morning on ITV's political programme Peston On Sunday talking with Robert Peston about her work but

Last week saw volume 101 of Attack on Titan published in Japan and in the USA. And one face appearing in last week's volume may be a little more infamous than usual.

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