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Comic book stores aren't having the best time right now. Already 2018 sales are down on 2017 which was down on 2016. So as Detective Comics #976 takes

Appearing in Marvel Comics titles out in comic book stores today... the shout sheet for this Wednesday's episode of Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., the 101st

The passing of Stephen Hawking at the age of 76, has been marked for his impact on pop culture as much as the understanding of the universe. Here's how a

Publisher's Weekly reports that Jordan Brown at children's publisher Balzer + Bray, an imprint of Harper Collins, has beaten five other publishers at

Bleeding Cool ran this preview of Domino #1 a couple of weeks ago, unbeknownst to us, accidentally exclusive to Bleeding Cool. Well, now we get the pages

Popfun Merchandising a new line of Toon Tumblers licensed from Marvel Studios ahead of the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War movie.

The lead up to Amazing Spider-Man #800 continues to burn through printings. And even though they didn't actually have the Red Goblin in them, Amazing Spider-Man #795 and Amazing Spider-Man #796 are going to third printings of both, out on the 18th of April.

Five years ago, Image Comics published Joe Kelly and JM Ken Niimura's I Kill Giants. It is now an upcoming American fantasy thriller film directed by Anders Walter, and now they are reissuing the collection with a cover from the movie, Collecting I Kill Giants #1-#7.

Tomorrow, comic book stores will be giving away a free 32-page comic reprinting the thirty-year-old first issue of The World of Krypton #1, courtesy of

Coming from AfterShock Comics in June from Port of Earth's Zack Kaplan and artist Alvaro Sarraseca, Lost City Explorers follows a group of millennial teenagers who discover the Lost City of Atlantis is hidden underneath New York City.

Cerebus, created by Dave Sim, made an early appearance in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics. He made an appearance in the original Teenage Mutant

Ian Melton went to ECCC last week. He writes: Emerald City Comic Con was Brian Michael Bendis’s first convention since he announced his move to DC and his

It's been a long time since we had a brand new 2000AD title. The last I recall was the Judge Dredd-for-kids comic to accompany the release of

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