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Comics! The Magazine As The New Wizard- Daily LITG, 13th December 2025

Comics! The Magazine was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround.

Comics! The Magazine 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 seven years. Founded over 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 runaround 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.

Comics! The Magazine and the top ten stories from yesterday

1. Comics! The Magazine Launches With Absolute Batman And A Price Guide
2. Todd McFarlane Returns To Spider-Man For Invincible Team-Up Reprint
3. Marvel Comics Armageddon Solicits For March 2026
4. Despite 300,000 Orders, Absolute Batman #15 Skyrockets On eBay
5. Lanterns Footage Included in HBO Trailer: Best Look at GL Ring Yet
6. From Absolute Batman To Absolute Wonder Woman To Hell (Spoilers)
7. Pokémon TCG Value Watch: Scarlet & Violet  – 151 in December 2025 
8. Todd McFarlane Returns To Spider-Man – Daily LITG, 12th December 2025
9. Wonder Woman Romantasy & Guy Gardner Lover in DC's Supergirl Next Door
10. Ultimate Spider-Man #24 Is Now Two Months Late, Until End Of February

And some other stories I wrote yesterday:

• He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe Now Gets An Ongoing Series
• Katia Vecchio Makes Her Image Comics Debut With Memories Of Giselle
• X-Men Of Apocalypse Will Be Late As Well
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Blind Bags Turning Retailers Hands Green
• Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #55 Out At The End Of February 2026
• UNIT Declassified Gets A Comic Book Exclusive Look
• Mind MGMT by Matt Kindt and Brian Hurtt Joins Free Comic Book Day 2026

In LITG one year ago, Peanuts Chex Boxes

1. Peanuts Characters Will Adorne Chex Boxes For The Holidays
2. Iron Man Changes Its Name For One World Under Doom
3. The New Ultimate Wolverine Is Not Canadian (Spoilers)
4. Suits: L.A.: "The Flash" Star & More Join Stephen Amell Spinoff Series
5. Godzilla Vs Marvel Joins Justice League Vs Godzilla Vs Kong 2 in 2025
6. Deadpool Returns! Lynda Carter, Kidpool Join Reynolds for Good Cause
7. More Diamond Comics Distributor Delays And Comic Store Distress
8. Comic Book Retailers Share Their Diamond… And Lunar… Stories
9. Sherlock Holmes Gets His Very Own Universe With The Empire Builders
10. Big News Coming From Marvel Comics Tomorrow
11. The New Ultimate Wolverine Is Not Canadian (Spoilers)
12. Doctor Strange Of Asgard, As Part Of One World Under Doom
13. Dynamite Relaunches Vampirella #1 by Christopher Priest & Ergün Gündüz
14. Faith Erin Hicks' Universal Monsters: The Mummy From Image Comics
15. Dynamite Publish Red Sonja Attacks Mars by Jay Stephens in March 2025
16. David O'Sullivan Who Replaced Luke Sparrow On Terminator, Now Replaced
17. PrintWatch: Absolute Wonder Woman, Ultimate Universe, Wynd & Wolverine
18. The Dinosaur Crucifix Has Short Cross Beams In Freddie The Fix
19. The New Ultimate Wolverine in the Daily LITG, 12th December, 2024

LITG two years ago, A Beast Of A Cover

1. John Cassaday Draws One Beast Of An X-Force Cover 
2. The Return Of Teen Titan Bunker To DC Comics Tomorrow
3. Doctor Who "The Giggle": What About Sacha Dhawan's Master? (SPOILER)
4. Shazam's Zachary Levi Burns His DC Goodwill To The Ground For A Joke
5. Daredevil Gang War #1 Features 1st Appearance Of… Someone (Spoilers)
6. Mark Millar And His Cancel Pigs Are Now Trending On X/Twitter
7. Comic Book Retailers Say The Funniest Things: Glenn O'Leary Special
8. Doctor Who: RTD on "Bigeneration" Creating Brand New "Doctorverse" 
9. The Mystery Retailer On DC Comics' Lunar/Penguin Random House Survey
10. Build Up Your LEGO Army with LEGO Mystery Minifigures Series 25
11. A New History Of The Challengers Of The Unknown In Today's Outsiders
12. Adult Happy Meals Return to McDonalds and with McNugget Buddies!
13. What Ilias Kyriazis Wished For, A Humanoids Graphic Novel
14. Tintin In The Congo Republished With Racism In Context
15. Ol' Dirty Bastard Graphic Novel, Super7 Figures, Vinyl From Oni Press
16. China Literature Buys All Of Tencent Comics For $84,000,000
17. Vault Comics Brews Beer With Buckledown For Barbaric
18. The Bigeneration Game in The Daily LITG 12th of December, 2023

LITG three years ago, Bish Bosh For Bosch

1. Bosch: Legacy Season 2: Michael Connelly Post Confirms Filming Wrap 
2. Wednesday: Lady Gaga Honors Dance by Going "Mother Monster" Mode 
3. Comic Book Publishers Not Paying Comic Book Creators: Part Two
4. DC Relaunches WildCATS Using A Very Different Name (Spoilers)
5. Dark Crisis: The Big Bang Details The New DC Multiverse (Spoilers)
6. Even More Batman Figures Are On the Way from McFarlane Toys
7. Audience Dumps Free Speech All Over Dave Chappelle, Elon Musk: Report
8. Comic Book Publishers Not Paying Comic Book Creators
9. Ghost-Maker Created a Robin to Rub Batman's Nose In It (Batspoilers)
10. Marvel's Star Wars Plans For 2023 Revealed (Spoilers)
11. Princeless Creators vs Action Lab Over Free Comic Book Day Offering
12. AI Artificial Intelligence Art Comes To Comic-Con In 2023
13. The Secrets And Lies Of Lucius Fox's Family (BatSpoilers)
14. Lily Renée and Matt Baker in Rangers Comics, Up for Auction
15. Mike Zagari Leaves AMC Networks Publishing, Comics Future Uncertain
16. Jack Kamen, Maurice Whitman Cover Fiction House's Kaanga, at Auction
17. Jon Kent, Superman, Has A Get Out of Jail Card From The Future
18. Cloak & Dagger Debut in Spectacular Spider-Man #64, Up for Auction
19. Mark Brooks' Twitter Account Hacked, Used To Scam Fans
20. More Pages From Mark Millar's The Ambassadors From Netflix & Image
21. X-Men #4 Debuts Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver and More, Up for Auction
22. Masters Of The Universe Makes Its Comic Book Debut, Up for Auction
23. Gaga Over Wednesday in The Daily LITG, 12th December 2022

LITG four years ago, Only Murders

1. Only Murders In The Building A Masterclass In TV Dramedy; Season 2 BTS
2. Power Rangers Zord Ascension Project Dino Megazord Has Arrived
3. An Open Letter to Robert Kirkman Regarding GI Joe
4. Toast of Tinseltown Star Matt Berry Shares Teaser for BBC Series
5. The Orville Prod Posts S03 Look Not Because Aaron Sorkin Asked Him To
6. McFarlane Toys Reveals Disney Mirrorverse Wave Two Figure Line-Up
7. Pokémon TCG: VMAX Climax Secret Rare Preview: Pikachu
8. Saturday Night Live Review: Eilish Proves Double Threat in Season-Best
9. Kansas City: Sylvester Stallone Looks to Clarify His "Q" Controversy
10. Pokémon GO Event Review: Dragonspiral Descent 2021
11. The First Red Sonja in Conan the Barbarian #23, Up for Auction
12. Batman #118 Top Bleeding Cool Bestseller List (Obviously)
13. Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries #9 Preview: Team-Up With The Riddler?!
14. Wastelanders: Wolverine #1 Preview: Young Man Old Man Logan Returns
15. John Paul Leon's Batman/Catwoman- Thank FOC It's Sunday 12th December
16. Batman: The Long Halloween #1 CGC 9.8 Is $210 So Far At Auction
17. Donny Cates & Ryan Stegman Recruit New Creators For Substack Comics
18. Gengoroh Tagame Follows Up My Brother's Husband Manga With Our Colors
19. Fred Fordham Adapts Brave New World As A Graphic Novel
20. Dino Megazord in the Daily LITG, 12th December 2021

LITG five years ago, Rob Liefeld Hiring Colorists

Only Murders In The Daily LITG, 13th December 2021

1. Tasks & Rewards For December Community Day 2020 In Pokémon GO
2. Law & Order: SVU – Christopher Meloni's Stabler Transformation Begins
3. Dark Side of the Ring Shares Season 3 Image- But From Which Episode?
4. Pokémon GO December Recap Community Day: Prep Guide Part 2
5. Is The December 2020 Community Day Ticket Worth It In Pokémon GO?
6. Smackdown Recap: Roman Reigns Gets Personal with Kevin Owens
7. Titans Season 3 Star Joshua Orpin Introduces Series' Newest Krypto
8. A Very Peculiar Cover To JLA Omnibus
9. Captain Marvel #24 Teaches Us to Never Costume-Shame Emma Frost
10. Supernatural Super Fan Stacey Abrams Offers Her SPN Finale Thoughts
11. Flash/Zagor USA/Italy Crossover #0 Published – Here's A Preview
12. Disney Brings "Be More Chill" From Broadway/West End To Graphic Novel
13. Comic Stores Give Bad Idea Their Five Best Customers – Are You One?
14. RuPaul's Drag Race's Dax ExclamationPoint On Getting It Together #3
15. Afrofuturist Comic Book Iwájú To Become Disney+ TV Show
16. LATE: Warhammer 40K, US Agent, Black Widow and Chris Claremont…

LITG six years ago… Art Thibert wasn't blacklisted

But Empyre was actually a thing, eventually.

1. Art Thibert Finally Talks About Getting Blacklisted at Marvel, to Promote His Comic, Chrono Mechanics
2. Marvel Releases Trailer for 2020 Super-Mega-Crossover Event: Empyre
3. "Crisis" of Infinite Cameos: Who You May Have Missed During Part 1
4. Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird Reunite After Netflix's The Toys That Made Us, to Create New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Comic
5. Fire Power: Robert Kirkman, Chris Samnee Launch New Iron Fist Comic at Image in May
6. Now Supergirl Roasts Batman Over All His Dead Robins… (Damian Wayne UPDATE)
7. Brian Taylor to Adapt Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's The Illuminatus! Trilogy as a TV Show
8. First Look at Firefly Comic Starring Nathan Fillion's Mom
9. Greta Thunberg in Batman: Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child – Same Day as Time Magazine's Person Of The Year
10. Donny Cates Shocked to Learn Final Venom Story to Be Published in January

LITG seven years ago… Daredevil was cancelled

And Clark Kent was coming out.

1. Everything You Knew About Daredevil's Cancellation Was Wrong
2. Is There a Post-Credit Scene in Aquaman? (No Spoilers)
3. He Did It… Brian Bendis Actually Did It…. (Superman #6 Final Page Spoilers)
4. Is Tom Taylor Planning to Kill the DC Universe?
5. So, It's Cosmic Ghost Rider Destroying Marvel History from Paul Scheer, Nick Giovannetti and Gerardo Sandoval

Comic book industry birthdays

Comics folk are still getting older and still celebrating that special date.

• Comic book author, artist, animator, designer, and publisher, creator of The Cowboy Wally Show, Kyle Baker
• Creator of Cry For Dawn, Joseph Michael Linsner
• Zenescope artist Paolo Pantalena
• Comic book publisher of Monarch Comics, Lisa Hager-Duncan
• Comic book historian Steve Chaput
• Comic photojournalist Endymion Mageto
• Cartoonist John Dobbs.
• Graphic novel writer Barbara Perez Marquez 
• Graphic novelist Angeli Rafer

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

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