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Just in time for Hallowe'en, out comes Marvel's Tomb Of Terror advertising on the cover 48 All-New Pages In Glorious Black And White with a price point of

HarryWatch: Harry Hill with an old copy of the Dandy, photographed by Dandy cartoonist with the unwieldy name of Nigel Parkinson. Expect publicity

Google News has just accepted Bleeding Cool into its bosom. So we may have a few new visitors to this site over the next few days. Be kind to them. For

Tomorrow at the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Hong Kong, the

Mark Millar got an early start at DC Comics, working on books including Swamp Thing, JLA, Flash, Aztek and The Authority. Then he was headhunted by

Bet you've missed me doing this haven't you? Sarah Jane Adventures just broadcast the first part of the two parter, Death Of The Doctor, by Russell T

This is not a hoax. This is not a gag. This is not an imaginary story. The comic book currently being worked on by Rob Liefeld is called Zombie Jesus.

Haven’t had a lot of time lately, but decided to experiment with the format of the column a little.  Now, instead of reading thousands upon thousands of

Crank up the Bleeding Cool servers folks. This morning we received word that Shueisha Publishing Company of Tokyo has convinced legendary manga creator

He's spent his years playing squat, bald, hairy characters. You'd have thought that CGI animation may have given Danny De Vito a new lease on life with a

Ok, it may be a parallel Earth Lois Lane. And it may be one in which she is Superwoman, the last surviving Amazon - after she killed her brethren -

It's about time for Bleeding Cool to start the run up to its traditional (as in, for the second year) most comprehensive independent coverage you'll find

How do you distinguish between a character from the Dandy and a delicious pastry? Desperate Dan, Flan. Korky The Cat, Pain Du Chocolat. You've got to have

Mark Evanier reports on the death of inker Mike Esposito, aged 83. DoctorWatch: From Turf #3, Tommy Lee Edwards and Jonathan Ross bring us a hidden freak

Bleeding Cool scooped back in August that Sylvester McCoy, best known as playing the seventh TV incarnation of The Doctor in Doctor Who, was up for the

BBC's Sherlock begins airing on PBS in the USA tonight, and the next two Sundays. Here's what Bleeding Cool thought of the show back in July when it aired

I came across a print out of The-Gutters at NYCC this year, And began kicking myself for not coming across these guys before. Writer Ryan Sohmer and a

So you may not have an inverted cross on the cover of Batman And Robin. But this is what you can have on the inside of a Batbook. From the most recent

On cookery/conversation show Something For The Weekend on BBC 2 this morning, we learned many things. That dates for Andy Serkis on The Hobbit are yet to

Weird Worlds is a new anthology series from DC that, well, has got me rather excited. Weird and wonderful takes on DC characters, this is just the kind of

PoliticsWatch: The Hill looks at cartoonist Nicholas Ivan Ladendorf running for Congress in Missouri as a Progressive Party candidate. What comic book or

He may be considered by some to be part of a series of offensive sterotypical cartoons. But no one in the UK has ever thought about that. So he's a

It's not just DC. Looks like Marvel is getting a pottymouth of its own. In New Mutants #17, set in a hellish Limbo, there is a demonic language spoken by

Kcuf em syawedis... You know those calculator games where you can type in 55378008, turn it upside down and it reads "Boobless" that used to amuse every

Will it work? Quite possibly. If you register at this site, you get a unique URL with while you can spam twitter, facebook, bebo, anything you like and

TheftWatch: A T-shirt maker steals a sketch of Matt Smith by 10 Doctors creator Rich Morris off the internet, then claims he has the original drawing and

They created 100 Bullets together, a book responsible for breaking out the possibilities of crime comics at Vertigo. We learned at NYCC that Brian

Yesterday Nikki Finke's Deadline site reported that Marvel Studios had pushed the Runaways movie project. And we were happy to pass that on. But she

Am I suffering from deja vu here? Yesterday, we reported how DC had removed an upside down cross from the cover of Batman And Robin #15. though it was

Monday and Tuesday sees a two part episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airing on CBBC written by Russell T Davies. And guest-starring Matt Smith as The