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DC Comics Solicits in the Daily LITG, the 18th of August, 2024

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DC Comics solicits topped the ten most popular stories yesterday

DC Comics November 2024 Solicits

  1. DC Comics' November 2024 Solicits & Solicitations In Full
  2. McFarlane Unveils Remastered Medieval Spawn & Comic Crowdfund
  3. McFarlane Reveals New DC Comics The Dark Knight Returns Batman
  4. Image Comics November 2024 Full Solicits & Solicitations
  5. The Librarians: The Next Chapter: "Exciting News" From Dean Devlin?
  6. Doctor Who Showrunner Russell T. Davies Drops Season 2, Spinoff Teases
  7. Doctor Who: The Last Day – The Seventh Doctor's Other Grand Finale
  8. Enter the Symbiote: Hot Toys Reminds Marvel Fans That We Are Venom
  9. GI Joe #1, Transformers And Void Rivals Solicits For November 2024
  10. Nightwing #117 Preview: Dick Grayson Learns the Shocking Truth

And a few other comic book stories you might enjoy.

LITG one year ago, The USA & Canada Ban All Mutants in X-Men

Marvel Comics X-Men
X-Men Red
  1. The USA & Canada Ban All Mutants In X-Men Comics Today (XSpoilers)
  2. Persepolis' Marjane Satrapi Will Never Make Comics Again
  3. Daredevil Born Again In Marvel Finale (Spoilers)
  4. So Who Is The New Captain Krakoa Anyway? (Spoilers)
  5. The 14-Year-Old Who Bought Giant-Size X-Men #1 Cover for $45 in 1985
  6. WWE 2K23 Releases Final DLC With The Bad News U Pack
  7. Hasbro Reveals Marvel Legends S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra Trooper 2-Pack 
  8. Arcade1Up Reveals Big Buck Hunter Deluxe Arcade Machine 
  9. World Domination Arrives with threezero's G.I. Joe 1/6 Cobra Commander
  10. Destro Cuts a Deal with A New G.I. Joe 1/6 FigZero from threezero | 
  11. Bad Idea Screw Up, Do A Great Reset On David Lapham's The Ends
  12. The Pretty Danger of Matt Baker's Secrets of True Love #1, at Auction
  13. Maria Llovet Knows Just What You Crave From Image Comics
  14. Rick Veitch & Steve Bissette's Stolen Heavy Metal Artwork Turns Up
  15. Killer Mermaids, Lagoon Creatures, the Horror of Nightmare, at Auction
  16. Police Make Arrest After Boulder, Colorado Comic Shop Theft
  17. Keith Davidsen Joins Mad Cave Studios As Director of Marketing
  18. Matt Baker and the Last True Love, up for Auction
  19. Banning Of North American Mutants in the Daily LITG, 17th August 2023

LITG two years ago, New Who

BBC to Stream New David Tennant Doctor Who, Free, Globally, This Week
Unseen David Tennant Doctor Who in the Daily LITG 17th of August 2022
  1. BBC to Stream New David Tennant Doctor Who, Free, Globally, This Week
  2. Frank Miller's First Work For Marvel In Almost Thirty Years
  3. DC Launches Arkham Academy as the Opposite of Teen Titans Academy
  4. Superman and Lois: Jordan Elsass Exits Series for "Personal Reasons"
  5. Mortal Kombat Trilogy Comes To GOG For Franchise's 30th Anniversary
  6. Zacian Raid Guide For Pokémon GO Players: August 2022
  7. Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic 2 Gets Special Editions
  8. The Orville: Penny Johnson Jerald on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Run
  9. The Sandman Episode 5: How "24/7" Changed From Comics To Screen
  10. Marvel's Creative Team on Fantastic Four is Ryan North & Iban Coello
  11. The Return of Bad Idea Comics Tomorrow – But What About Valiant?
  12. Frank Frazetta Covers Ghost Rider on Tim Holt #17, Up for Auction
  13. Ten Years Of Marc Silvestri Working On Batman/Joker: The Deadly Duo
  14. Finally We Get To Read Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
  15. Anne Frank's Diary Graphic Novel Removed From Texas Schools
  16. What Other Image Artists Is Jason Aaron Bringing To His Boom Series?
  17. Eight Billion Genies #1 Gets 70,000 Orders… So Far
  18. Britain's Muslim Spider-Man Fights Dragons During Ramadan
  19. X-Men, Eternals, Avengers, Humans, Justify Yourselves for Judgment Day
  20. Archie Comics Launches Bob Phantom in November 2022 Solicits
  21. Wolverine Has Quite The "Crossover" With Fortnite's The Imagined
  22. Unseen David Tennant Doctor Who in the Daily LITG 17th of August 2022

LITG three years ago: Jonathan Hickman Leaves X-Men

Did X-Men Inferno Begin In Wolverine #13?
Jonathan Hickman Leaves X-Men in The Daily LITG, 18th August 2021
  1. Jonathan Hickman Confirms He Will Leave X-Men After Inferno
  2. The Poorest Attempt To Remove An Artist Signature From A Marvel Cover
  3. Leah Williams On X-Factor #10 Being Cancelled, Then Rewritten
  4. Doctor Who Series 13: BBC Releases Fresh Look at New Team TARDIS
  5. Marvel Comics Solicitations For November 2021, Frankensteined
  6. The Boomer Humor Of Grant Morrison In Superman & The Authority #2
  7. Dick Grayson To Be A Socialist Batman – Nightwing #83 Spoilers
  8. What Do You Get For Your Donny Cates/Ryan Stegman Substack Money?
  9. Marvel Cancels Daredevil With #36 With Kingpin/Typhoid Mary Wedding
  10. Greg Berlanti & "Green" Arrow Convinced Stephen Amell to Return
  11. Howl at the Moon for Danny Lore and Gio Sposito's Lunar Room at Vault
  12. Cantwell, Casalunguida to Solve Kennedy Assassination in New Comic
  13. DC Gets Into Bed With Webtoon For Digital Comics
  14. Masks, Shots, Tests Needed For NYCC, ECCC, Florida, C2E2 Comic Con
  15. Donny Cates & Ryan Stegman Talk To Rich Johnston About Their Substack
  16. Gregg Hurwitz & Mark Texeira's Knighted, Batman Of The AWA Universe
  17. Jim Mahfood Brings Back Grrl Scouts With Stone Ghost at Image Comics
  18. Stephen Mooney & Jethro Morales Launch Sheena, Queen of The Jungle
  19. Yes, Jessica Cruz Will Become A Yellow Lantern, It Seems
  20. Mike Huddleston Shows The Marble Arch Mound How To Do It
  21. Marvel Comics Signature Removal In The Daily LITG, 17th August 2021

LITG four years ago, Hot Wheels, Trump and DC Comics

Hot Wheel from San Diego, followed by Dave Bautista's own slams on Donald Trump. With DC street dates and Iron Man Funko to follow.

  1. SDCC Hot Wheels from Mattel Have Arrived, Let's Take a Look!
  2. Dave Bautista Targeted on Social Media for Donald Trump Criticism
  3. DC Comics Street-Date Fail – Comic Stores Not Playing By The Rules
  4. Funko Marvel Cinematic Universe – Iron Man (2008)
  5. Scott Snyder, Tony S Daniel Kickstarter Launch New Comic, Nocternal
  6. WWE Took Back All of The Big Show's Slammy Awards
  7. Seven More Gossipy Spoilers For Upcoming X-Men Comics
  8. Return Of Milestone Comics Announced (Again) at DC Fandome
  9. Lucifer – Tom Ellis' Past Lives: Doctor Who, Eastenders, Merlin & More
  10. Chris Claremont Returns To Wolverine: Black, White And Blood
  11. Al Ewing Will Probably Write Something X-Men Related Soon
  12. Separated At Birth: Mamamoo's Hip vs Jackie Q's Ring Around My Rosie
  13. Is Boom Studios' Favorite Image Series Actually Getting It Together?
  14. Mad Max Meets Wizard of Oz in New Kickstarter, The O.Z.
  15. Ghostwatch: The BBC 1992 TV Play That Terrified the Nation

LITG five years ago…

DC Comics were doing their best to hide stuff even then.

  1. "Animal Kingdom": [SPOILERS] Death Was "Smurf-tastic" Move [Opinion]
  2. Guardian Publishes Art Spiegelman's Full Essay That Marvel Rejected Over Politics
  3. Finally, Todd McFarlane's Own Cover For Spawn #300
  4. House Of X #4 Will Break Your Heart With One Line
  5. "The Rookie" & Afton Williamson: ABC's Not New at This [OPINION]
  6. "Timeless," "Pushing Daisies" & More: Bad Cancels [BC TV MELTDOWN]
  7. Editorial Back-and-Forth-and-Back-and-Forths on the Legion Of Super-Heroes?
  8. Wolverine's Daughter Sends Him to Hell in Marvel Comics Presents #8 [Preview]
  9. "The Flash" Season 6: Danielle Panabaker's "Hall of Villains" Post [Image]
  10. "Elementary": The End of the Modern Sherlock Holmes Era [OPINION]

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.

  • Brian Bendis, co-creator of Powers, Miles Morales, Jessica Jones and current Justice League writer.
  • Jeffrey Lang, writer of Grendel Tales.
  • David Barbour writer of Gunfighters In Hell and Spring-Heeled Jack
  • Skip Dietz, former Sales Manager at Marvel Comics.
  • Christopher Allen, inker for Antarctic Press

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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