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First we have a preview of next week's Doctor Who episode, Rosa, set in 1950's Alabama and a certain Rosa Parks ahead of some civil rights history.

This week sees the publication of The Life Of Captain Marvel #4 the comic that has seen Carol Danvers return to her hometown to unearth a new origin for

In a collection of articles and essays by the late physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, he has suggested that a new race of superhumans will emerge from

Karl Kesel and David Hahn have just launched a Kickstarter for their new character Impossible Jones. “She’s a criminal who gets super-powers,” explains

Mikael Bergkvist and Neal Adams co-own a small company in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden which is creating a comic book tasked with saving the planet's wildlife,

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what

We had the September 2018 marketshare and top ten sales on Friday but now we get the bigger picture… TOP 100 COMIC BOOKS Based on Total Unit Sales of

Welcome to the daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five stories yesterday Gerry Conway Calls Out DC, Geoff

Earlier this year, we reported on the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund's letter sent in defence of Alison Bechdel’s critically acclaimed comic book

We already told you about the biggest book from Marvel in 2019. But there are others as well. OMNIBUS Line Amazing Spider-Man By J. Michael Straczynski

We get the nod that Marvel Comics is to publish a new Captain Marvel trade paperback called Captain Marvel: Starforce on May 28th to run alongside the new

Last year, Marvel published a young kids book featuring probably their favourite Guardian Of The Galaxy, Groot. Night, Night Groot by Brendan Deneen and

If you are in a comic store that has ordered the Behold... Galactus hardcover, you will know about it. It needs a shelf of its own. In London, Orbital

In January, Marvel Comics are to begin publishing a series of collections, celebrating their 80th Anniversary, with one book per decade. We have seen

Bleeding cool hears about a new character for the CW TV show Arrow. Could this be the 'secret' character referred to by star of the show Stephen Amell in

You will find Alex Ross at Chicago Comics, in Illinois today, from 2-5pm. Maybe you can ask him to spill more about what he talked about over New York

Welcome to the daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Apparently, some people think I got demoted. Not at all.

Yesterday, Kaitlyn Booth was made the new Editor-In-Chief of Bleeding Cool. I understand that this had been in the planning for some time but that certain

One of my favourite cartoonists, from Outrageous Tales Of The Old Testament to The Goons to Firkin The Cat, Hunt Emerson was announced the winner of the

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

Award-winning author and graphic novelist Hannah Berry, creator of Adamtine and Livestock will be announced as the new Comics Laureate at the Lakes

Three comic books going to second printing announced this week. From Image Comics... Blackbird #1. Coming out the same day as Blackbird #2... BLACKBIRD #1

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

Bleeding Cool has been able to ascertain that a recent sale on eBay of Batman Damned #1 by Blaze PC Collectables of Florida was for around $1800. It was a

Hermes Press has just released their new historical/archival publication, DC Comics Before Superman: Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's Pulp Comics. Major

John Jackson Miller pens his Writer's Commentary on Classic Battlestar Galactica: Counterstrike #0 on sale now from Dynamite. We were those who believed…

The Return of Wolverine #1 was the most ordered comic of September 2018, in the North American direct market of comic stores. But then, it did have a

by Adam Wallenta “Our Dreams Make Us Large” -Jack Kirby Earlier this year, my son and I released our first all-ages graphic novel collaboration titled

In the late seventies and early eighties, Jeff Rougvie was once the lead vocalist in two punk rock bands, Crawling Smash and the Gumby Brothers. He also

Wizard World's next comic book-and-related show will be Wizard World Madison, with William Shatner, Nichelle Nichols, Matt Ryan, Lisa Berry, Ruth