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On Saturday, August 31, Marvel will officially celebrate its 80th Birthday. Marvel Comics #1000 will be published on Wednesday, August 28th in

Diamond UK, the British wing of Diamond Comic Distributors, and the monopoly distributor to the direct market of comic book stores for Marvel, DC, Image,

Welcome to Thank FOC It’s Friday, a semi-weekly mailing list, similar to The Daily LITG, but (mostly) every Friday and planned to coincide and cover the

That is one statistic and a half. There I was, implying that someone at Diamond Comic Distributors must have had made an error. Because in the July

The first time it happened it was considered a fluke caused by a variant cover. The second time the same. But now, for four months in a row, Immortal

Sales for 2019 to date are now creeping above 2018 so far in terms of dollars at least, with an uptick in 0.68% on 2018 at this point, although actual

Jude Terror has been running a conspiracy theory on Bleeding Cool that Marvel is to cancel/relaunch the Immortal Hulk. It gives me the greatest pleasure

Cameron DeOrdio's Writers Commentary on Charlie’s Angels/Bionic Woman #2, ut now from Dynamite, He writes, Aaaaand we’re back! Thanks for sticking with us

Marvel Comics is putting a burst of second and third printings out for September 11th, 2019. Venom #17, Avengers #22, Fantastic Four #12, Immortal Hulk

Spawn #300's FOC date is this weekend, so Image Comics are adding another five covers. Or rather finding new ways to sell existing covers. They are still

Last week, Bleeding Cool mentioned in passing that Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #12 would be the last issue in the series, written  by Tom Taylor. It

Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail

reetings 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

On Tuesday night, for the launch of Absolute Carnage #1, a number of comic book retailers opened at midnight to sell copies. But what else said retailers

That was a very fast Rich Twitch. No sooner are we done reporting that Mike Deodato will have his upcoming comics project at Bill Jemas and Axel Alonso's

Bleeding Cool gets the nod that one of our favourite comic book artists, Mike Deodato, currently drawing Savage Avengers - where he has just traumatised

The Diversity & Inclusion Forum of the Virginia Library Association have presented their annual VLA Graphic Novel Diversity Awards. Created to

Four covers released for previously announced, but significant printings of select Marvel Comics titles. The third printings of House Of X #1, Powers Of X

In November, in the DC Universe, the bad guys win... DC's Year of the Villain reaches its next deadly phase with "Hostile Takeover" -- as the heroes of

Here's a look at some new comic book covers being revealed... just ahead of Final Order Cut-Off dates. We have a Bryan Hitch combination cover for Legion

Yesterday's Future Foundation #1 sees Julie Power and the rest of the team working with Yondu to rescue someone from space-imprisonment. Even though they

This is Jenny Frison's FOC cover to James Tynon IV and Werther Dell’Edera's Something Is Killing The Children, hitting Final Order Cut-Off this weekend.

The latest on DC Comics list of comic books being made available to retailers fully returnable is the upcoming Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy #1, launching

Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail

Last week we pointed out that Shazam #7 was slipping another week to the 4th September, which now made it twelve weeks late. But that the following issues

Scott Snyder recently became a dad again. Everyone go 'awwwww'. And while he was able to fit in a trip to Sam Diego Comic-Con with everyone to launch his

Currently Bruce Banner is going through a bit of a crisis concerning hi identity over in The Immortal Hulk comic book series by Al Ewing and Joe Bennett

This is the solicitation for Buffy The Vampire Slayer #7, out today. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #7 CVR A MAIN ASPINALL (W) Jordie Bellaire (A) David Lopez,

Today is the world of disruption. Companies that come along and upturn the apple carts, changing industries overnight and destroying ways of practice that

The Dark Gifts have come to the DC Year Of The Villain. The Offer was made by Lex Luthor, interminably through July, in August we get to see what everyone