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It's Mantine For Pokémon GO in The Daily LITG 15th June, 2022

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Mantine in Pokémon GO. Credit: Niantic
Mantine in Pokémon GO. Credit: Niantic

LITG: Mantine For Pokémon GO in the ten most-read stories, yesterday

  1. Tonight Is Mantine Spotlight Hour In Pokémon GO: June 2022
  2. Hasbro Gives A Closer Look at Marvel Legends Infinity Ultron BAF Wave
  3. Abolition Of Man, First Comic Book Entirely Drawn By A.I. Algorithm
  4. Barry: HBO's Great Must-See Show Is Driven By Big Plot Hole
  5. Better Call Saul Season 6 Part 2 Teaser: An Oath Taken, An Oath Broken
  6. The Boys S03: What Jensen Ackles Should Do With His Soldier Boy Sock
  7. Disney Santa Tim Allen Tries to Be Funny & Relevant, Fails Miserably
  8. Daddy Superman Comes Home To Die In Action Comics in September
  9. New Neil Gaiman & Mark Buckingham Miracleman In September/October
  10. The Comic Shop Where Iman Vellani Bought Her First Ms Marvel Comics

ICYMI: more you may prefer from yesterday.

In case you fancied more LITG about comics.

LITG one year ago,

Ultimate Slip 'N Slide 'N S*** – The Daily LITG, 15th June 2021
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  1. Ultimate Slip 'N Slide Prod Halted Over "Explosive Diarrhea" Outbreak
  2. Kissing, Separated At Birth – Thor and Sif, Superman and Raja
  3. Hasbro Reveals Future Figures For Star Wars: The Black Series
  4. The Boys Co-Creator Creates New DC Legacy Batman Villain (Spoilers)
  5. Titan Cancels Captain Jack/Doctor Who Comic Over John Barrowman
  6. Marvel Comics Solicitation For Jonathan Hickman's X-Men: Inferno
  7. Comics Folk React To… Batman Not Going Down On Catwoman
  8. What's In A Name? Nightwing, Bitewing, Haley And More (Spoilers)
  9. Todd McFarlane Designs His Own Wonder Woman With DC Multiverse
  10. Wonder Woman Faces Her Fears With XM Studios Newest DC Statue
  11. Frank Miller Elektra, Sin City, Daredevil Original Artwork At Auction
  12. Geof Darrow Hard Boiled Original Auctioned Artwork Makes You Go Blind
  13. Zac Thompson & Germán García's Bring Back Ka-Zar from Marvel Comics
  14. John Buscema Final JLA Barbarians Unseen Original Artwork at Auction
  15. Hellboy & The BPRD Moves from Fearful Fifties To Swinging Sixties
  16. Marvel And DC Comics Run Tributes To The Late John Paul Leon
  17. Milo Manara and Sex Blackmail at Heritage Auctions
  18. Harper Collins Buys Untimely Passing Of Nicholas Fart Graphic Novel
  19. Sara Amini & Shadia Amin Sell 3 Mixed Graphic Novels To Scholastic
  20. Bernie Wrightson Original Captain Sternn Artwork Hits Auction
  21. Princess Sparklepuff & Her Crew of Lady Pirates by Cassandra Federman
  22. Complete 7 Page 1949 Will Eisner Spirit Original Artwork at Auction
  23. Ultimate Explosive Diarrhoea- The Daily LITG, 14th June 2021

LITG two years ago, closing comic book stores

I would not have been surprised by hundreds of comic book stores having closed. That, one year ago, five had chosen to was very sad, but it was good news that it was comparatively so few, and not the start of a flood of closures.

Happy Birthday Neal Adams - The Daily LITG 15th June 2020.
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  1. Five Comic Book Stores Announce Permanent Closure
  2. Nickelodeon Post Fuels SpongeBob SquarePants Sexuality Speculation
  3. Emma Frost Shows Her True Colors with Iron Studios X-Men Series
  4. TMNT Gets Shell Shocked in SDCC 2020 Exclusive from Playmates
  5. Our Scooby-Doo Series Rankings: From "Ruh-Roh" to Scooby Snack-Worthy
  6. DC Rescheduled Comics Including Lois Lane and Doom Patrol Finales
  7. Transformers Battlegrounds Is Coming In October 2020
  8. Highlander Gets its First Collectible Release from Chronicle
  9. Games Workshop Announces Warhammer 40,000 Indomitus Boxed Set
  10. Brady Bunch, Get Smart and More: Does Classic TV Work For Modern Kids?

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.

  • Brian Hibbs, owner of Comix Experience in San Francisco.
  • Neal Adams, longstanding Batman, X-Men comic creator, publisher, comic store owner.
  • Don McGregor, Black Panther writer, co-creator of Sabre.
  • Rick Stasi, artist on Action Comics Weekly and Disney Afternoon.
  • Brent Anderson, artist on X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills and co-creator of Astro City.

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 Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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