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Once upon a time, over forty years ago, Brian Bolland designed an advert for London comic book store Forbidden Planet. I found this version in an old copy

Once upon a time, many continuities ago, Jimmy Olsen was a Giant Turtle Boy, with special lizard powers. Every now and then it comes up again...but is

Not all copies of Marvel's relaunch of Conan The Barbarian #1 went on sale earlier this year. Some were kept back by Comic Sketch Art, which has

Bleeding Cool has pointed out the strange DC Universe incongruity that everyone seemed to notice that Heroes In Crisis saw Roy Harper die over in Green

BCCM Boarder Collectables, run by Val and Al Giplin, is a comic shop that has had a rather varied path; operating from market stalls, back bedroom, and

The finest crews in the history of Starfleet find themselves pitted against each other in a cosmic conflict between Q and his rivals.

Peter David and J.K. Woodward take us back to Jean-Luc Picard's first mission as the Captain of the USS Stargazer in the excellent Star Trek: 20/20.

A time-travelling warrior from the future featured in today's Matt Bors comic at The Nib bears a close resemblance to X-Men character Cable.

Earth is the last realm standing in Marvel's upcoming The War Of The Realms. But what happened to the other realms? Marvel Comics lays out what's coming

For the second week in a row, X-Editor Jordan White refused to provide relevant X-Men content to comic book websites on his Twitter account.

More Detective Comics #1000 exclusive retailer variants popping out. To follow the ones we ran here, here, here and here. Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau will be

Crossed is a horror comic created by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows for Avatar Press - the publishers of Bleeding Cool. A zombie-esque series, it sees an

You may have read a rather spoilery Age Of X-Man Alpha #1 article a few weeks ago on Bleeding Cool. You may have not. But with tomorrow's publication of

At the beginning of the new Doctor Strange series by Mark Waid and the gloriously beautiful Jesus Saiz, the good Doctor lost his magic. He tried to get it

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five most-read stories yesterday Scott Bakula

Last week, Bleeding Cool ran advance word of a meeting at DC Comics' Burbank HQ regarding a restructuring of the publisher. This saw a reorganisation

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. Oh 2019, how tough of a year is it going to be? The start of

Robert Lee Beerbohm is an American comic book historian and retailer, involved with the rise of comics fandom since the sixties. A fixture in the growing

Jughead needs to get a profile on Betty done for the newspaper, but thanks to Archie's shirtless posing, Betty isn't in the mood for photography.

Andrew Wildman writes on Facebook, Recent painted cover by Clayton Crain for Venom Unleashed. Alongside my cover for Carnage Unleashed in 1995. Not sure

Dark Horse is adding to its manga collection later this year with an omnibus of Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Volume 1 by Michio Murakawa,

It looks like Batman didn't have enough prep time, or he definitely would have been prepared for this watery death trap he's found himself in!

Unhappy with being betrayed, Damian Wayne does the only thing he can... he stabs Jason Todd in the butt with a dart! Ouch! That's gotta hurt!

Last week, while the US government shutdown was still ongoing with no end in sight, owner of Cloud City Comics, Games And Toys of Pennsylvania posted the

Dynamite Entertainment is doing a new digital Humble Bundle deal, from $1 to $18, and if you pay the latter, handing you almost 10,000 pages worth of

Comic Universe of Darby, Pennsylvania will celebrate its 40th birthday in February - but it will be its last. Owner Frank Link, now in his seventies, is

The Cat variant covers are coming from Marvel (only a couple of years after Valiant). But beating them to the punch is a new genre of Side Of The Van

Andy Stanleigh of Alternate History Comics writes, We are honoured, humbled and, let’s face it, enthralled to be producing Volume 3 of MOONSHOT The

We will always have a lot of time for Scott Dunbier. Comic book art dealer-turned-Editor-in-Chief at Wildstorm, before and after they were bought out by

Last week, we looked at the numbers of comic books that DC Comics are shipping and note that they were publishing around half the number of titles in