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A little Amazon Fishing into early 2018 unveils current Marvel Comics' priorities in the books they are putting together for collection, aside from just

Marvel have just registered trademarks for Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man for all manner of things. Will it be a comic by Nick Spencer?

Two days ago, Bleeding Cool reported that we'd had the nod that there was no Fantastic Four comic as part of Marvel Legacy. Which appears to be true. Then

Well, this is new. One of the largest comic book publishers in the world, Dargaud, is commissioning and publishing a brand new Batman original graphic

Ariell Johnson, manager of Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse in Philadelphia has been awarded a $50,000 to expand the store to serve the artistic

Anyone fancy doing a bit of reading? DC Comics' solicitations for September 2017.... Note that Aquaman goes from twice-monthly to monthly - and gets the

Marvel Legacy is looking to the past as much as it is the future. Returning the original numberings. Consolidating the comics characters into their

Coming out of Heroescon, we're hearing that some retailers have been told to expect the number of Marvel titles on sale to fall as part of Marvel Legacy.

We've already unpacked the Diamond Comic Distributors statistics for May 2017 to show that, unlike their report, that once again Secret Empire wasn't

Straight to Bleeding Cool from Heroescon, it looks like the upcoming storyline in Amazing Spider-Man will be dubbed 'The Fall of Parker.'

Courtesy of Diamond Comic Distributors, not only do we have the Top 100 Comics chart for May 2017 that we ran yesterday, but the Dollar rank and the Index

We've seen Titan Comics' Crime solicitations for September 2017 over the weekend. Well, now we get a look at the Doctor Who titles, including their

Supercon is crossing state lines, and seems to be following the old Wizard World model in terms of branding and expansion.

Gail Simone may not have a lot coming out from DC Comics right now. Let alone writing Wonder Woman. But that's where cross-company crossovers come in!

When Marvel said they would not be bringing back The Fantastic Four with Marvel Legacy and Make Mine Marvel, they were being completely sincere.

Seen recently on Walmart shelves, DC's Showcase Magazine features reprints of five recent DC Comics — a total of 126 pages — for $9.98.

We already know that Venom went from #6 to #150, as part of Marvel Legacy renumbering, taking the issue number of comic book series to where it would have

Brendan Wright used to be my editor at Dark Horse Presents on The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne. He left a few years ago and became a freelance editor

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what

Sony Pictures has acquired Son Of Shaolin, an original graphic novel being published by Top Cow/Image Comics in September, by Skiptrace/Bachelor Party

Sebastian Girner of Shirtless Bear-Fighter storyboard artist-turned comics creator Galaad and letterer/designer Jeff Powell have a new series from Image

People still can't stop talking about Wonder Woman - and why should they? So what else were you reading this week? Welcome to Lying In The Gutters, a

By Hilton Collins  Great Hera! June’s been a banner month for Warner Bros. when it comes to the reputation of their DCEU film slate. Wonder Woman, the

Nat Gertler of About Comics does a fine job in printing and keeping in print all manner of oddities of the comic book industry - and others. The

So, for me, the trailer for next week's Doctor Who: World Enough And Time, the penultimate of the series (plus the Christmas Special that already feels an

Howard Chaykin's Divided States Of Hysteria #1 published a couple of weeks ago succeeded in doing what it set out to do. Which was to stick a salted

Break it down, courtesy of Diamond Comic Distributors... odds are that the Batman #22 total sales will beat out Secret Empire #1 and Venom #150 orders by

In the light of the unqualified success of Dark Days: The Forge, the same creative team of Scott Snyder, James Tynion, Jim Lee, Andy Kubert and John

I have been given the nod not to expect Fantastic Four in September's Marvel Legacy. Announced at C2E2, Marvel Legacy will begin in September with Marvel

Titan Comics are releasing their September solicitations in dribs and drabs as is their wont. Which also means, the launch of the second of their