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Marvel Comics is currently repurposing old Jim Lee X-Men artwork lying around on their FTP site, for 1:1000 covers and for their trading card variant

Much was made by Marvel Comics about their Marvel Legacy line-up of ongoing titles from October via a series of homage covers - that went over like an

Today was a week of Marvel's legacy, Spider-Man's homecoming, Howard Chaykin's cover stories, and with some very silly Doctor Who rumours that got about

Okay, so, no, no new Doctor Who. Okay, I mean there is, but not Kris Marshall. Or anything like that. Let's just have that at the top. Onwards with The

As revealed at the end of the Doctor Who season 10 finale, The Doctor Falls starring Peter Capaldi, as the Doctor begins to regenerate, we get to see the

Rich Douek writes, Five years ago, Gutter Magic was nothing more than a collection of 3 short stories that were printed in an ashcan being circulated at

A few weeks ago, we told that Valiant had randomly inserted a “secret edition” of Secret Weapons #1 into the print run of the first issue of its new

Neil Greenaway (of Nerd Team 30) writes for Bleeding Cool: The 2017 Denver Comic Con started off with a rush of people on Friday morning, with the line

Marvel Comics has announced all their Legacy numbers from October 2017, as they plan to shift all their comics onto the number the comics series would

  Here are all the numbers - and the names of the storylines beginning with Marvel Legacy and Make Mine Marvel, starting in October and following

Marvel Comics Claims The Fantastic Four Was Cancelled Because It Didn't Sell - But Marvel Two-In-One Could Bring It Back

Stan Lee will participate in a tribute panel featuring Felicia Day and others on July 21st at San Diego Comic-Con, following his hand and footprint

I do try to keep an eye on trademark registrations by comic book companies in the run up to San Diego Comic-Con. You can often ascertain possibilities to

The comics career of Sam Glanzman was recently resurrected and revived by Drew Ford, reprinting his old war comics from Marvel Comics from Dover Comics

Pigs Might Fly by Nick Abadzis and Jerel Dye will be First: Second's big debut at San Diego Comic-Con this year, at Booth 2800/2. All the sensible hogfolk

Canadian cartoonist Dave Cooper began his career in the 80s as a teenager working on Barry Blair's Aircel Comics, before giving it all up and joining a

Kramers Ergot began as a small press anthology of comics books from Avodah Books in the Spring of 2000, a mere 48 pages including work by Sammy Harkham,

Donny Cates and Lisandro Estherren have seen the third issue of their comic Redneck sell out from Image Comics and go to second printing, hitting stores

The spinoff anthology books that Marvel often publish as the part of their big events allows Marvel editorial some leeway in the kind kf comic v=book

Earlier this week, we linked to shots taken by one Doctor Who fan, George Baker, and posted to Twitter (before being deleted) that identified a figure filming the Doctor Who Christmas Special alongside Peter Capaldi. 

As Bleeding Cool told you earlier in the week, the comic book retailer advocacy group ComicsPRO has been holding a Marvel conference call with editors and

Last weekend, Bleeding Cool ran some mindless speculation on the future of the Captain America comic book, given that Marvel hadn't included it in their

Valiant has spent this week spotlighting the various new and returning cast members of Bloodshot Salvation – the publisher new series in September from

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and

Spider-Man: Homecoming features plenty of recognisable characters. Spider-Man, Aunt May, The Vulture, Iron Man, Happy Hogan, Pepper Potts, Flash Thompson,

Savage Dragon #225 seems to have taken something directly from Sex Criminals, the bagged variant cover.

Rob Liefeld will appear at Comic-Con International 2017 in San Diego, CA on Thursday July 20th for a special Panel and Q&A with Walking Dead creator

Yesterday saw Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev bring us a new chapter of Infamous Iron Man, the one in which Doctor Doom is swanning around pretending to be

Hermes Press has announced two exclusives for San Diego Comic-Con 2017, one from the late great Bernie Wrightson, another from Garfield's Jim Davis.

Rick Shea & Sam Smith of Famous Faces & Funnies write, With his star on the rise after the giant success of God Country and Redneck, Donny Cates