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In this week's What If: Ghost Rider from Sebastian Girner and Caspar Wijngaard we had a reprise of the famous incident in which the band KISS poured

Marvel Comics has been licensing classic comic books to Archie Comics to package in their digest formats and sell in supermarkets, big brand stores and

Marvel Comics lawyers have been continuing to challenge a certain type of people who keep trying to trademark the skull image used by them for The

I am not a lawyer, I do not even play one on the internet. But yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran a piece by comic book writer Patrick Kindlon talking with a

Michael Finn writes, Hi, I’m Michael Finn and I want to tell you about my Kickstarter in which the super-heroes of the 1940s return in a brand-new, 100+

Michael Davis is the Keynote speaker at Afro ComicCon tomorrow at SAE Expression College located in Emeryville, California. His speech is reportedly

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

Hector Bala writes, The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been both a critical and commercial success that has made billions of dollars worldwide on the backs

Erik Burnham's Writer’s Commentary on Red Sonja #22, published recently from Dynamite Entertainment. Red Sonja #22 already? Where does the time go? Erik

These are the kind of numbers that would make Amazon Glitchwatch weep. But Marvel Comics is making a stack of their hardcover collections available to

Marvel Comics are sending a bunch more books back to the printing presses. Which, as What If: Ghost Rider showed us this week, look like this... Getting

Welcome to the daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five stories yesterday New Teaser for 'Vikings' Season 5b

A new Marvel Comics series called Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man was first rumoured by Bleeding Cool when we thought it might have been what Nick

Return Of Wolverine #3 by Charles Soule and Declan Shalvey is slipping a little, from the scheduled 21st of November to the 28th November. No biggie.

Vault Of Spiders #1 was solicited as written by Cullen Bunn and Jed MacKay, with artists Javier Pulido and Sheldon Vella. But before publication, they

We noted that Sara Pichelli wasn't drawing the big wedding issue of Fantastic Four #5. Or #6 for that matter, Aaron Kuder on art for both issues. We now

Ironheart is the new series from Marvel Comics starring Riri Williams, but it may have a few teething problems. Ironheart #1 will have art by Luciano

Okay, so... Return Of Wolverine #1 went to a second printing. We mentioned it a few weeks ago. It comes out on Wednesday. However, it will be coming with

The VA are declining to give Congress documents related to accusations that Ike Perlmutter and others are unduly influencing policy.

Landry Walker writes a commentary on his recent A Clash Of Kings #13, on sale now from Dynamite Entertainment. SPOILERS! Today we’re here to talk about

Dinesh Shamdasani may have been forced out of Valiant Entertainment by the Chinese investors DMG who bought the company. But he's still part of the

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

Rob Liefeld may be better known for his work on Supreme, a violent hot-headed version of Superman that was later transformed by Alan Moore and Chris

Patrick Kindlon writes and shares with Bleeding Cool. You can sign up to his mailing list here. Ok, so if you're not up on this stuff, two novelists were

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

It was announced in a blaze of glory at San Diego Comic-Con this summer. Titan Comics and Blizzard Entertainment announced a comic book series set in the

JH Williams III hasn't had that much luck with DC Comics of late. There was the thing with the Batwoman marriage. There was the thing with the Sideways

This morning, Bleeding Cool ran the solicitations for IDW's comics coming out in January 2019, including this particular one: Magic: The Gathering:

I love a good parody comic. I may have written a few mediocre ones too. Sometimes you can utterly be led by the wordplay, as I was on Watchmensch. But the

Sarah Kuhn and Alitha Martinez appear to be returning to Barbie comic books, with a new ongoing series in the Papercutz January 2019 solicitations. Let's