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There are a few peeks inside the covers of Detective Comics #1000 out there. Here is what we've found... Tease from the piece @GregCapullo

Tom Mandrake is a comic book creator, best known for his work on Grimjack, The Spectre and Martian Manhunter, especially in collaboration with John

With the launch of the new Red Sonja #1 comic this week by Mark Russell, Mirko Colak and Dearbhla Kelly and, frankly, better than 99% of the other comics

Last week's kerfuffle saw comic book artist Mike Miller tried to reuse and redraw an old Spider-Man cover sketch by the late Mike Wieringo, and claim it

This is the Dynamic Forces retailer exclusive cover for Detective Comics #1000 by Dan Jurgens and Kevin Nowlan. In colour and in glorious black and white.

It looks like a badly Photoshopped promotional piece. And that's probably because it is. But that image of the Hulk had to have come from somewhere.

Tim Drake was the third Robin character in Batman. He was also a virgin. While other Bat characters were wont to put it about a bit, Tim's only mistress

Orbital Comics in London moved to its current location adjacent to Leicester Square tube ten years ago. And this year is running a number of ten year

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five stories read yesterday: Brandon Sanderson

DC Comics, after a couple of rounds of redundancies, has been a pretty paranoid place. More changes are still expected in the summer but no one seems to

Welcome to Thank FOC It’s Friday, a weekly mailing list, similar to The Daily LITG, but every Friday and planned to coincide and cover the demands of

Buffy The Vampire Slayer #1 debuted last month and has already hit a third printing on issue #1. But is April’s Buffy #4 the really big issue? Last week,

Copies of the first printing of Middlewest #1 by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona are going for around $10 on eBay. But that unmet demand is enough for

Matthew Snyder writes, Welcome to the ComiXology Bestseller list, your guide to see how well your favorite titles are selling digitally. Every week I'll

A Writer’s Commentary: Rob Williams on Project Superpowers #6, on sale from Dynamite, now. PG 1 - A spot of symmetry. This was always the theme of the

Ragmop by Rob Walton was one of those iconic self-publishing titles from the nineties, accompanying the likes of Strangers In Paradise, Tyrant, Bone,

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool broke the news that Aladdin/Hamilton star James Monroe Iglehart was writing a new Spider-Man comic book story for Marvel, to be

Many will recall Valiant's turbulent year in 2018 when the company lost almost its entire management team – including CEO & Chief Creative Officer

Hivemind – the production company formed by former Bad Robot TV head Kathy Lingg, former Valiant CEO & Chief Creative Officer Dinesh Shamdasani, and

Marvel has a bunch of titles that came out on Wednesday, heading back to the printers this week for second printings. Daredevil #1, Conan The Barbarian #3

Marvel Comics is upping its promotions for the upcoming crossover The War Of The Realms.  They are sending comic book stores bundles of War Of The Realms

Uncanny X-Men: Winter's End was solicited for the end of February. It has slipped a week into March, which I wouldn't usually mention, but it does suggest

Lenore, The Cute Little Dead Girl is a comic created by Roman Dirge, inspired by the poem "Lenore" by Edgar Allan Poe. And also possibly from From 1998 to

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. The Spider is outta the web! I’m so excited about this

The way USA movie censorship works requires the MPAA to use twists and turns to get movies released--and it is weird. Movies can get the PG-13 rating,

James Monroe Iglehart won a Tony Award for his performance as the Genie in the original Broadway production of Aladdin. He also took on the role

You may have noticed that Bleeding Cool has run a number of stories of late looking at the lateness of Fantastic Four and Tony Stark: Iron Man. I mean,

This week saw the release of the collection of the third Noble TPB, and the launch of a new arc with a new writer. Kevin Grevious, creator of Blue Marvel

Image Comics have cancelled the unpublished issues of the mini-series Jook Joint.  A five issue mini-series by Bingo Love's Tee Franklin and World Of

Mark Russell's upcoming series Son Of God is getting FOC'd this weekend. Just the time for a new round of boycotts from people who wouldn't have bought it