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Batman #1 And #2 In The Daily LITG, For The 11th Of August, 2025

Batman #1 And #2 In The Daily LITG, For The 11th Of August, 2025

Batman #1 and #2 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.

Batman #1 and #2 and the ten most popular stories yesterday

1. Even More Looks At Batman #1 and #2 by Matt Fraction and Jorge Jimenez
2. X-Men #20 Preview: Cyclops Explains It All (Again)
3. Doctor Who: Eccleston & Piper Discuss First Working Together, Reunion
4. DC Comics' Plans For Batman Day, Saturday, 20th of September, 2025
5. New 7" Mortal Kombat Klassic Scorpion Revealed by McFarlane Toys
6. The Gilded Age Season 3 Finale: S03E08: "My Mind Is Made Up" Preview 
7. McFarlane Reveals Mortal Kombat Klassic Sub-Zero vs. Mileena 2-Pack 
8. Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #1 Preview: Taste the Krainbow
9. Joshua Williamson & Scott Snyder On Dying In DC's K.O.
10. A First Look Inside Absolute Batman Annual #1 by Daniel Warren Johnson

And a few of my other stories from yesterday

• PrintWatch: 40 Absolute Get New Printings, DC/Sonic Takes The Fifth
• Kid Maroon Collection Gets A 50,000 Print Run From Vault Comics
• Dying In DC's K.O in The Daily LITG, for the 10th of August, 2025

LITG one year ago, DC Comics Absolute Power Gossip

1. Big Gossip For DC Comics' Absolute Power To Come (Spoilers)
2. The Rookie Season 7: Tru Valentino Not Returning to ABC Series
3. Become Spider-Man with Jazwares New Official Primalux Costume
4. When Tom Brevoort Refused To Abort Peter Parker & Mary Jane's Baby
5. DC Versus Marvel Omnibuses Now Both Delayed Until October
6. The Boys: A-Train Out; The Deep Goes Multiverse: VCU Timeline Update 
7. Lilo & Stitch Live Action, Freakier Friday, Tron: Ares Details At D23
8. We Will Get An Absolute Catwoman And An Ultimate Black Cat
9. Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor's Odd Canon-Breaking Final Story
10. Marvel Animation Sneak Peek: Disney D23 Liveblog
11. D23 Marvel Panel Wolverine Variants at $1000 to $1500 on eBay Already
12. French Publisher Editis To Buy Graphic Novel Publisher Delcourt
13. Colleen Doran & Neil Gaiman's Troll Bridge Art Unidentified at Auction
14. Manu Larcenet Adapts Cormac McCarthy's The Road as a Graphic Novel
15. Lord Of The Flies Graphic Novel Exhibited For Novel's 70th Anniversary
16. Jamie Smart Is Britain's Best Selling Comic Book Creator By Far

LITG two years ago, with Ms Marvel & Spider-Man

1. After Ms Marvel Dies, Spider-Man Tells Her His Big Secret (Spoilers)
2. Tom Brevoort & Dan Buckley's Big Plans for Marvel Comics in 2024
3. Rick and Morty Team Wouldn't Let Justin Roiland "Drag Down" Hard Work 
4. Marvel Brings Back Sentry, Again And Again And Again
5. Why IDW Cancelled Creator-Owned Comics Before They Were Even Announced
6. Batman Gossip Over How Knight Terrors Sets Up Gotham War (Spoilers)
7. McFarlane Toys The Dark Knight Trilogy SDCC Exclusives Arrive Online 
8. X-Men, Orchis, Krakoa, Kingpin & The Childen Of The Vault #XSpoilers
9. Star Trek: Quinto and Peck's Spock Meet-Up; Film Franchise's Future
10. Kaare Andrews' Spider-Man Reign 2 in Today's Amazing Spider-Man #35
11. Ralph Bakshi & Frank Frazetta's Fire And Ice, From Comic To Board
12. Zoe Thorogood Joins Skybound's Creepshow in November From Image Comics
13. He Who Fights With Monsters To Be A Vault Graphic Novel
14. Fawcett v St. John Over Matt Baker's Pictorial Confessions, at Auction
15. Printwatch: The Sacrificers, Seven Years, Gordon Barleycorn & Trance
16. Comic Shops Get To Buy Certain Mad Cave Titles For 50 Cents A Pop
17. Brenda Maier & Fanni Mezes' Penguin & Panda From Marble Press
18. Katy Perry Pokemon in the Daily LITG, 10th of August 2023

LITG three years ago, Where In The World Is Kim Wexler?

1. Better Call Saul Series Finale Images Raise Serious Gene/Kim Question
2. Better Call Saul S06E13 Promo; Odenkirk's 3-Word Series Finale Tease
3. The Orville on Disney+: Seth MacFarlane Clarifies Missing Ep Matter
4. Doctor Who: Chris Chibnall Forgot He Should Be Writing for The Doctor
5. Ms Marvel Is Becoming More Connected To The X-Men & Krakoa (Spoilers)
6. Marvel Did Not Approve Ultimate Fallout #4 Acetate Covers At C2E2
7. When Peter Parker Meets Mary Jane Watson (Amazing Spider-Man Spoilers)
8. Night Court Star Melissa Rauch's "Rebel" Judge Abby Stone Checks In
9. Surprise First Appearance Alert In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #100
10. Chill Drive Genesect Raid Guide For Pokémon GO Players: August 2022
11. Elusive Matt Baker: All-Picture, All-True 1952 Giants, at Auction
12. Tyrell Cannon To Draw Ryan Stegman's New Substack/Image Comics
13. Celestials Will Ask Was Cyclops Right? Marvel's Judgment Day Revealed
14. If Frank Castle Won't Use Punisher Skull, Someone Else Will (Spoilers)
15. Matt Baker's Film-Style Horror on Amazing Ghost Stories, at Auction
16. Valiant Cancels Archer & Armstrong Forever, Delays Book Of Shadows?
17. So Who Is Wearing The New Spider-Suit? Peter Parker Or Norman Osborn?
18. Acetategate: Deadpool & Ghost Rider Covers At Fan Expo Boston?
19. Matt Baker's Iconic and Rare Giant Comics Editions #12, at Auction
20. Ms Marvel Is Becoming More Connected To The X-Men & Krakoa (Spoilers)
21. Punisher #5 Learns With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
22. When Peter Parker Meets Mary Jane Watson (Amazing Spider-Man Spoilers)
23. Time For Light's Out – The Snowman's Raymond Briggs Dies At 88
24. Chibnall Forgot To Write For Doctor Who – Daily LITG 10th August 2022

LITG four years ago, Happy Birthday Jim Lee!

1. Dave Bautista Wants Marjorie Taylor Greene to Pay the Ultimate Price
2. Supernatural: Jared Padalecki Calls On SPN Family For Touching Cause
3. Rick and Morty: Dan Harmon Says Not So Fast Assuming Clone Beth
4. Jonathan Hickman Quits X-Men For Three Worlds Three Moons Substack?
5. The X-Force Arrives With Special Marvel Legends 3-Pack from Hasbro
6. Tonight Is East Sea Shellos Spotlight Hour In Pokémon GO
7. Tim Drake, Robin, Bisexual Or Bi-Curious? You Must Wait Till December
8. Captain America and Iron Man Team-Up for November Mini-Series
9. 4Chan Fakes Bleeding Cool's Post-James Tynion IV Batman Gossip
10. Supergirl Stealing: Benoist Wants Costume Badly; Rath May Have Issues
11. Zainab Akhtar Details Short Box Comics Fest 2021
12. Fantagraphics Announces Print Publication Of CRISIS ZONE
13. Captain America and Iron Man Team-Up for November Mini-Series
14. Wizard World No More? Fan Expo Takes Over Wizard World's Conventions
15. Defacer Was Put In Suicide Squad For Drawing A D*** On Dick Grayson
16. Gotham Gossip – Fear State, Poison Ivy and a Dead Batman
17. Fear State: Scarecrow To Help Gotham Like Joe Chill Helped Batman?
18. Skottie Young Takes I Hate Fairyland To Substack Comics
19. Patrick Gleason Talks VariantGate, Walmart and Web-Head Covers
20. Scout Comics Combine Print And Digital For "Comic Tags" Comics
21. Checklist for Fear State Confirms Secret Files And Omega
22. More DC Comics Omnibus, Portfolios and Big Books For 2020
23. Zealot Cosplays As Wonder Woman – And Starro? Urban Legends Spoilers
24. Jason Todd, Red Hood, Losing Guns But Still A Murderer? (Spoilers)
25. DC Comics Releases Free Comic Book Day Comics Early, Digitally
26. Saying Bye-Bye To Batman – The Daily LITG, 10th of August 2021

LITG five years ago, Jim Lee, DC Comics, DC-Cution

The big changes at DC Comics and what is happening with Jim Lee may have dominated traffic – but they still left room for Pokemon.

1. DC Comics Staff Told About Layoffs Today – DC Universe First?
2. Unown Raids Are In Pokémon GO, But Is Shiny Unown Worth Hunting?
3. DC Comics Editorial Bloodbath Going On Right Now
4. Jim Lee, Bob Harras, Marie Javins In New DC Comics Implosion Rumors
5. Which Pokémon To Use Elite Charged TMs On In Pokémon GO
6. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Emmys Burn War Goes Bobblehead
7. Robin Eisenberg Responds to Wonder Woman 1984 Rooster Teeth Reaction
8. The Ultimate Crossover of AEW and WWE May Happen in a Backyard
9. Christopher Eccleston Returns to Doctor Who as The Doctor in 2021
10. The Madness of Funko San Diego Comic Con 2020
11. The Changing, Altering Storylines Of Spawn
12. What Are Percy Pigs and Why Does Lin-Manuel Miranda Love Them So?
13. Best Laid Plans to Get World War Z Movie Into China – Despite Zombies
14. Cerebus: High Society Remastered Hardcover Gets a Price
15. Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious FOC Today, Will Stores Order Enough?
16. Orbital Comics of London Reopens (Ish) With a Barista and a 50% Sale

LITG six years ago.

Ah, when our biggest concern was working out the language in the House Of X comic books…

1. Comic Stores Told to Destroy All Copies of Next Week's "Superman" #14 and "Supergirl" #33
2. Greg Capullo Signs New DC Contract, Announces Next Project with Scott Snyder
3. Sideshow Collectibles Brings Batman Beyond To The Present
4. Jonathan Hickman Replies to "House Of X" Similarities to "The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August"
5. DC Publishes Wonder Woman 1984, 80 Years of The Joker, City Of Bane Tie-Ins and More Big Books in 2020
6. BC Toy Spotting: Marvel Legends, Transformers, WWE, Funko, and More!
7. Spider-Man and Boomerang Fight Feminism in Amazing Spider-Man #27 [Preview]
8. The Riddler is Triggered by Batman in Batman Universe #2 [Preview]
9. Rob Liefeld to (Finally) Debut Brigade at New York Comic Con 2019? Promises Backers Will Get Theirs First
10. Reverse Snyder Cutting in 3 Pages from Justice League Odyssey #12 [Preview]
11. Diamond Planning to Change Monthly Stats Going Forward? Did Batman #75 Outsell Amazing Spider-Man #25?
12. Brexit Party Offers Advice Over Increasing Prices in British Comic Shops

Comic Book birthdays today.

There might be partially slightly more of a party atmosphere right now. It all depends on which state you are living in. But comics folk are still getting older and still celebrating that special date with twelve years for us as well.

• Jim Lee, Publisher of DC Comics
• Letitia Glozer, Miracleman editor for Eclipse Comics.
• Pat Brosseau, comic book letterer.
• Jason Copland, co-creator of Kill All Monsters
• Silvio Spotti, artist on Stargate, Cars, Wynonna Earp
• Elliot Fernandez, artist on Harley Quinn, Power Girl and Archie.
• Richard Burton, former Marvel and 2000AD editor, co-creator of Night Raven. and Sonic The Comic.

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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