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Mephisto in Marvel Legends in The Daily LITG, 28th July, 2025

Mephisto in Marvel Legends was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround.



Article Summary

  • Mephisto headlines Marvel Legends as Hasbro unveils an all-new made-to-order collectible figure
  • See what comic book stories were trending yesterday, plus highlights from SDCC announcements
  • Look back at the hottest pop culture headlines from the past six years in Lying In The Gutters
  • Spotlight on comic creator birthdays and how to join the LITG mailing list for daily updates

Mephisto in Marvel Legends was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround for the most-read stories the day before, as well as over the past six years. Founded sixteen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip for a further eighteen years before that, Bleeding Cool has become one of the longest-standing and most well-known pop culture websites around. The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and possibly the day ahead. In summary, you can sign up to receive Lying In The Gutters as an email here. And maybe you just have.

Mephisto Returns As Hasbro Unveils New Made-to-Order Marvel Legends
Credit: Hasbro

Mephisto in Marvel Legends and the ten most popular stories yesterday

  1. Mephisto Returns As Hasbro Unveils New Made-to-Order Marvel Legends
  2. SDCC: The Energon Universe's Quintesson And Dreadnok Wars
  3. SDCC: Robert Kirkman Relaunches Invincible Universe Comic, Capes
  4. SDCC: Alfred Pennyworth As An A.I. For Batman #1? The Gotham Panel
  5. SDCC: Ultimate Spider-Man Ends With #24 For Ultimate Endgame
  6. Cable Arrives From the Future with New X-Men 97 Marvel Legends Figure 
  7. Dark Horse's November 2025 Full Solicits: Capers, Scouts And Circuses 
  8. SDCC: King Crocs And Batmobiles In The New Batman #1 (Spoilers) 
  9. IDW October 2025 Full Solicits: Kaijus, Turtles, Willows & Hollows 
  10. Justice League: Dark Tomorrow Special #1 Preview: Time's Up 

And a few of my other stories from yesterday

LITG one year ago, Results Of The 2024 Eisner Awards

Eisner Awards 2024 Results At SDCC in The Daily LITG, 28th July, 2024
Somna by Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay wins Eisner Award for Best New Series, screencap from Tiktok
  1. The Results Of The 2024 Eisner Awards, As They Are Announced
  2. Boom Studios Launches Power Rangers Prime #1 in November 2024
  3. Marvel Launch a New Young Superhero Team in 2025 to Change The World
  4. Ram V & Evan Cagle's New Gods From DC All In, at San Diego Comic-Con
  5. Jeff Lemire and Diego Olortegui Launch A New JSA Comic For DC All-In
  6. Marvel Launches TVA #1 in December With Captain Carter, Gambit & Loki
  7. DC Confirms Absolute Green Lantern by Al Ewing and Jahnoy Lindsay
  8. Marvel To Launch a New Ultimate Monthly and Ultimate One Year Later
  9. Return to the 60s with McFarlane's New DC Multiverse Batman
  10. Marvel Comics Drop QR Codes Going Forward But That Was Always The Plan
  11. Bad Idea Comic, Ordained, To Be A Movie From John Wick's Derek Kolstad
  12. Alyssa Wong & Vincenzo Carratù's Psylocke #1 For X-Men From The Ashes
  13. Joe Quesada's New Publisher, Amazing Comics, With Mad Cave & Dupuis
  14. Image Comics And DC All-In Use Official Documents To Boost Sales
  15. Joe Quesada To Reveal "Idaho's Number One Comic Book Company" Today
  16. Viz Media To Publish Ultraman: Along Came a Spider-Man Manga
  17. Invasive Species by Frank Miller & Ryan Benjamin Launches From Abrams
  18. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tops Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List
  19. Scott Dunbier Takes DC, Walt Simonson & Dave Stevens From IDW to Act 4
  20. Oni Press' SDCC Presentation: EC Epitaphs From The Abyss Now 12 Issues
  21. Titan Comics Retailer Presentation At San Diego Comic-Con, With Conan
  22. Ultimate San Diego Comic-Con in The Daily LITG, 27th July, 2024

LITG two years ago, Chris Weston's Batman

Chris Weston's Flash Batman in The Daily LITG 28th July 2023
Chris Weston's Flash Batman in The Daily LITG 28th July 2023
  1. Chris Weston's Batman Designs For The Flash Movie 
  2. The X-Men's Hellfire Gala, Ms Marvel, And Where Did Everyone Go? 
  3. The Many, Many Deaths Of The X-Men At The Hellfire Gala (XSpoilers) 
  4. How The Plans Of Orchis Play Out In The Hellfire Gala (XSpoilers)
  5. Firestar as The Great X-Men Traitor in The Hellfire Gala (XSpoilers) 
  6. X-Men's Hellfire Gala (Nothing Else) in The Daily LITG 27th July 2023
  7. What Comes Next For The X-Men After The Hellfire Gala (XSpoilers) 
  8. The Great, Great Massacre Of The Hellfire Gala (XSpoilers) 
  9. Wilson Fisk And The X-Men (Hellfire Gala XSpoilers) 
  10. The Psychic Defenses Of The X-Men At The Hellfire Gala (XSpoilers) 
  11. Nina The Starry Bride by Rikachi in Kodansha's October 2023 Solicits
  12. WIP Promises A Big Change For Comics
  13. What If Shakespeare's Richard The Third Was In The Style Of Dog Man?
  14. Image Comics Get Walking Dead Variants In October
  15. Still No Sign Of Eternal Warrior Scorched Earth Hardcover From Valiant
  16. The X-Men's Hellfire Gala, Ms Marvel, And Where Did Everyone Go?
  17. Bill Sienkiewicz, Liam Sharp And Walter Simonson Help Sherlock Holmes
  18. San Diego Comic-Con 2023- Less Film, More Comics, And No One Minded

LITG three years ago, The Death Of Superman

The Death Of Superman, Today, in the Daily LITG 27th July 2022
The Death Of Superman,
  1. DC Comics Officially Announces The Death of Superman Tomorrow. Again.
  2. Star Trek: Melissa Navia to William Shatner: Do You Even Watch, Bro?
  3. Better Call Saul S06E10 Thoughts: Old Habits Die Hard for Gene
  4. Seinfeld: One Cringeworthy Episode That Painfully Didn't Age Well
  5. The Death Of Superman, Again, This Time With Doombreaker
  6. Marvel Puts The Fantastic Four In George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards
  7. Lucifer Co-Showrunner Has Kind Words for Netflix's The Sandman
  8. SDCC Gossip About Substack Comics – Nick Spencer No Longer On Staff
  9. Who Was The Living Brain? (Amazing Spider-Man #900 Spoilers)
  10. She-Hulk: Is That Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider Foreshadowing We See?
  11. Amazing Spider-Man #900 – From Ayn Rand to One More Day
  12. Ant-Man #1 Weaponises Marvel Unlimited Streaming Service to Tell Story
  13. Marvel Puts The Fantastic Four In George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards
  14. Jimmy Kimmel Makes Debut Appearance In Amazing Spider-Man #900
  15. Rogue State Launches in Black Mask Studios October 2022 Solicits
  16. The Death Of Superman, Today, in the Daily LITG 27th July 2022

LITG four years ago – Dean Cain on the new Superman

Is Dean Cain The New Dave Bautista? The Daily LITG, 28th July 2021
Is Dean Cain The New Dave Bautista? The Daily LITG, 28th July 2021
  1. What Will Dean Cain Say When He Hears About New Superman? (Spoiler)
  2. Englishman Who Walked Up Marble Arch Mound And Came Down £5 Poorer
  3. McFarlane Toys Announces DC Comics Collectibles Takeover
  4. Tom Taylor's Words In Damian Wayne's Mouth In Superman: Son Of Kal-El
  5. Ash Greninja, Primal Forms, & More Found In Pokémon GO Code
  6. Today Is Natu Spotlight Hour In Pokémon GO: Details & Tips
  7. How Doctor Doom Changes A Fantastic Four Member – Forever! (Spoilers)
  8. Is Everyone Sick Of The Multiverse? (Infinite Frontier #3 Spoilers)
  9. Behold the Power of Mattel's MOTU: Revelation SDCC Scareglow
  10. Yet Another Rando Knows Who Batman Is? (Detective Comics Spoilers)
  11. Swamp Dogs and Fantastical Crime Unit in Scout October 2021 Solicits
  12. She-Ra Meets Dog Man – Barb Graphic Novel Sold for 6 Figures
  13. Graphic Autobio, Oh Brother by Georgina Chadderton, Gets 4 Publishers
  14. Queer Space Opera Graphic Novel Series, Kloud 9, Picked Up By IDW
  15. First Second Buys 3 JT Petty & Boya Sun Graphic Novels About Mochikoa
  16. Viktor Koen, New Illustration & Cartooning Department Head at NY SVA
  17. Frankie Boyle's Return To Stand Up In London's West End – Review
  18. Doctor Doom Changes The Fantastic Four- The Daily LITG, 27th July 2021

LITG five years ago, Star Wars: Rise Of Skywalker cancellation

No matter what scandal may be hitting comic books, it appears that Luigi will always beat it. But there was a lot more to talk about.

  1. Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey Batman Comic Dropped By DC
  2. Marvel Comics Cancels Star Wars: Rise Of Skywalker?
  3. Jae Lee to Tom King – "We're Not All Good"
  4. Dragon Week Unlocked At Pokémon GO Fest 2020
  5. Arkham Knight is Batman's Worst Nightmare with Flame Toys
  6. New Details On Mega Evolution & Level Cap Increase For Pokémon GO
  7. Unova Week Unlocked at Pokémon GO Fest 2020
  8. A New Luigi Code Is Found 24 Years After Super Mario 64 Was Released
  9. I May Destroy You Gives Television Its First Watchmen
  10. Tom King Speaks Out About DC Comics Rorschach #1 Cover (UPDATE x2)
  11. As Redskins Change Name, So Marvel Changes Scalphunter To Greycrow
  12. If… Steve Bell Continues as a Guardian Cartoonist?
  13. When Chris Claremont Comments On Your Naked Drawing Of Wolverine
  14. Zenescope Impose Minimum Price On Amazon Marketplace Graphic Novels
  15. Batman #95 Beats Empyre #2 – The Bleeding Cool Bestseller List

LITG six years ago…

Val Kilmer was reconciling himself with Chris Achilleos' Batman and I was at the London Film And Comic Con.

  1. Val Kilmer, Signing the Chris Achilleos Batman Print He Once Rejected
  2. A Bleak Future and a 100-Year Time Jump in Powers of X #1 [Preview]
  3. David Bowie Approves of New Guardians of the Galaxy Ship Name From Beyond Grave
  4. "Preacher" Season 4: Tom Cruise, Fights Scenes, Roasting Fans [VIDEO]
  5. Blizzard Devs Nerf Moira In "Overwatch" After Community Complaints
  6. A New Look For Arthur Suydam's Killing Joke Homage For DCeased
  7. Chucklefish Announces New Updates Coming To "Wargroove"
  8. How Many Bruce Springsteen References Did You Find In Detective Comics #1008
  9. DC Comics Cancels Orders on Stargirl By Geoff Johns
  10. Dave Sim Tells You How to Keep Your Vagina "Kissing Fresh" in Cerebus "Color Your Own" One-Shot

Comic Book birthdays today

There may not be much of a party atmosphere right now. It all depends on which state you are living in. But comic folk are still getting older and still celebrating that special date with twelve years for us as well.

  • Jon J. Muth, artist on Moonshadow, Havok & Wolverine, Sandman and Lucifer,
  • Jim Davis, creator of Garfield.
  • Mike Smith, cartoonist for the Las Vegas Sun.
  • Ian Akin, comic book inker.
  • Mike Cruz of Robert Kirkman's Secret History Of Comics.
  • Nicholas Ahlhelm, publisher of Metahuman Press
  • James Austin Sprandel of Parasite Studios

If you are in comics and have a birthday coming up – or you know someone who has – get in touch at richjohnston@bleedingcool.com.

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from The Union Club on Greek Street, shops at Gosh, Piranha and FP. Father of two daughters. Political cartoonist.
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