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The fuss over Amazing Spider-Man has seen retailers up their orders for the second issue massively without any other order incentive to do so. That's not

Everson Whittle is a British gentleman who, when a younger man, used to purchase American comic books from a market stall in the centre of Preston, the

Wow. I just went for (twenty minutes of) the Comics Unmasked: Art And Anarchy exhibition at the British Library, with familiar face Paul Gravett having

Steve Marmel writer and producer of the likes of including The Fairly OddParents, I Am Weasel, Danny Phantom, Family Guy and Yin Yang Yo!, Sonny with a

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ1stdqeKZQ Let's all watch Dan Slott on CBS. Go on, what else were you going to do right now?

Answering questions on CBR, Rick Remender gave an answer to the following question.  I have to say -- when you showed Immortus's Infinity Watch, my heart

Hannah Means-Shannon, Editor-in-Chief of Bleeding Cool, just ran a look at Free Comic Book Day events in New York, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and New

Marvel Comics has printed over 700,000 copies of Amazing Spider-Man #1, published today, with stores often ordering several thousand copies of the book

Comic writer Joe Keatinge has spoken out about the comic Cyan, published today by DC Comics/Vertigo, on Tumblr. I reproduce his statement below. The

There are spoilers for today's Avengers titles below. Specifically for New Avengers, but that follows on from today's Avengers, so you know. There are

  From today's Diamond Previews, a preview (appropriately) of Warren Ellis and Tula Lotay's very different version of Supreme, entitled Supreme: Blue

The  Justice League War action figures below will not be made available in Canada or  Europe due to safety testing issues. Sorry folks. It's fine to sell

Last week, Marv Wolfman's old Nova character, Blackout, was the villain on Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Also last week on Arrow was Deathstroke,

Batman Day” is on Wednesday, July 23rd, and in libraries on Saturday, July 26th. So what are the comic stores going to have in stock? Coming to retailers

DC Comics hasn't released the creative team details for the Superman Futures End 3D Cover event thing (though we found a few stray details over here). But

We mentioned this was coming over two years ago. And now it really is. Messenger is the new graphic novel biography of Joan Of Arc by Tony Lee and Sam

So what exactly is DC Comics President Diane Nelson's attitude to the issues behind the move of DC Comics from New York to Burbank? And can it be summed

Mojo is a wonderful Marvel Comics character. A multidimensional being from a media-obsessed, he's been used to parody and satirise the excesses of

When Bane does it in the depressingly titled Forever Evil Aftermatch oneshot Batman Vs Bane (considering Forever Evil #7 still won;t be out for another

One of the many problems with the modern day superhero comic is its obsession with sexualising its characters. Presenting them in a series of ludicrously

Yesterday, we looked at a preview to Flash Annual #3, seeing Wally West come into physical contact with a new, rebooted, young Wally West. By arresting

Courtesy of Bleeding Cool owners Avatar Press at Calgary Comic Con this past weekend, Joan Rivers browsing episodes of the ongoing horror series, Crossed,

Tomorrow sees the release of Amazing Spider-Man #1. Reports of sales estimates sees orders through the direct market of comic stores as topping 700,000

We did seem to get this pegged back in January.. Though we saw the future dead Wally West in last week's Flash #30, tomorrow, we'll get to meet him in the

Thanos and Dreadstar creator (and Warlock reviver) Jim Starlin posted on Facebook over the weekend, Just finished penciling and scripting my four-issue

The cover to Original Sin #5 does indeed feature a certain Orb as we previously suggested... ORIGINAL SIN #5 (OF 8) (W) Jason Aaron (A) Mike Deodato (CA)

So how will the Marvel Comics Deathlok look like the Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD Deathlok? CBR has the pages from the new upcoming Original Sins: Deathlok

I understand that, initially, DC Comics planned an "impromptu" creative summit in Chicago to coincide with C2E2. I understand that at that summit, they

Picture yourself relaxing on a riverbank in the bright sun, with a cool breeze. Fishing rod in hand, we're going Amazon fishing for upcoming Marvel Comics

DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST CON? Did you go to the very first comic con? Ethan Roberts is looking for the folks that attended one in New York back in July