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Welcome to the daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Five most read stories yesterday The Store That Has 1000

Things to do in London in November… if you like comics, of course. Exhibitions followed by events… let us know if we missed any, Exhibitions: Observer

Bleeding Cool told you about the Funko POP John Constantine and Spider-Man figure for Free Comic Book Day 2019. And we told you about the Batman, X-Men

Are we getting close to February 2019 solicitations already? It seems so. Here's the announcement of new title Stronghold by Phil Hester, Ryan Kelly and

When Phil Seuling set up the direct comics market in the seventies, the objectives was to allow comic book stores to order any number of copies of a comic

Okay this is the deal. Comic stores that order as many Fantastic Four #5, featuring the wedding of Ben Grimm and Alicia Masters (honest this time) will

A special shout out to Bleeding Cool's Senior Walmart Correspondent (and yes he really wants a different title but this one is so useful) Ian Melton who

Thank you to John Cimino for allowing us to reprint this from his blog. Roy Thomas writes about his cameo on Daredevil season 3, episode 4... MY MARVEL

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

The Mister Miracle trade paperback slipped from the 16th of January to the 13th of February, well the individual issues have also been slipping. Sandman

You know that one day they'll do this for real. But for December, we get Conan Versus Marvel Heroes variant covers across Marvel's titles and Conan Versus

Recently, Bleeding Cool reported on Benjamin Percy' decision to leave Nightwing with #50, disagreeing with the direction the comic book was taking,

When the latest January 2019 solicitations were released, there was one question on many people's lips. @DCComics @geoffjohns no shazam in January? —

We knew that Heroes In Crisis was getting a couple of additional issues, what would originally have been spin-off one-shots by Tom King with other

Welcome to the daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five read stories yesterday Harley Quinn as Good as

First there was Image Comics including an exclusive ten-page prologue in Barnes & Noble's version of the Isola Vol 1 trade paperback by Brenden

ComicBooks For Kids! (CB4K) has announced its first comics variant cover for Archie #700, out on 21st November, by Art Baltazar. The distribution of this

Check out these upcoming DC Comics covers for November 2018 shipping titles. As ever, you may have seen some of them – but you won’t have seen most of

Statue manufacturer Sideshow Collectibles is about to launch a brand new imprint/company. Unruly Industries. We don't know what it will cover, but its

One upon a time, this was referred to as CSI Ankh Morpork. Bleeding Cool first reported on the news back in 2011 that BBC Studios was working on a

I have not done this in an age. But today I was reminded that some people rather enjoyed it. So, here we go, time for In One Week, In Two Weeks... let's

It gets earlier and earlier every year. We already told you that comic stores will be getting John Constantine POP and Black Suit Spider-Man figures to

Okay, so, we've all read the ending to Extermination #4 by now, right? The one where this happens? And then this happens? Good. Just wanted to be on the

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool told you that the Superman/Top Cat Special published by DC Comics and written by DC publisher Dan DiDio would feature an Uncanny

Tony Stark: Iron Man #5 was the least likely candidate for a Hallowe'en Special from this weeks lineup of comic books, or so I thought until I was told

At the end of Secret Wars, Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm returned to Earth but believed Reed Richards, Susan Storm, Franklin Richards, Valeria Richards,

You can check what's up with Poison Ivy in Heroes In Crisis #2, right here. But if you are more of a Harley Quinn person, this may be the excerpt for you.

In today's X-Men Black: Emma Frost #1 by Leah Williams and Chris Bachalo, she works with the X-Men to take down a vulnerable Hellfire Club after recent

Top Cat can do what no human being can do, while living in the DC Universe. In today's Superman/Top Cat Special, he can see through Clark Kent's glasses

LUCCA Comics & Games, held in Lucca in Tuscany, Italy is the largest comic convention in the world, toppling France's Angouleme from its perch and