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Marvel recently reclaimed the monthly Diamond sales chart crown from rival DC after a post-Rebirth streak by the Distinguished Competition, but Marvel

Okay, doing a little number crunching, and looking at December's solicitations... I think we have the top ten selling comic books of 2016, sold through

Courtesy of Diamond Comic Distributors, the top 100 selling comic books and graphic novels in the North American direct market in November 2016, as bought

This month, Marvel easily won the marketshare battle in the North American direct market, with a massive gap opening up between Marvel and DC Comics. A

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what

  Remember that time George Lucas jumped on Facebook to debate with fans about whether the Star Wars prequels sucked? No? Well, what about the time

Now that the build up to the holidays meets the dread television winter hiatus, this seems like a good time to throw the spotlight onto The Flash: Season

Neil Gaiman and Humble Bundle are teaming up again for the holidays and to help raise money for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, UNHCR, and the Gaiman

The last time Archie Comics tried to launch a bunch of new titles, they tried to Kickstart them, prompting a lot of backlash over the the perceived

The newest TL;DR (too long; didn't read) from Marvel puts it's focus on the recent Spider-Verse storyline. The new video from Noah Sterling, Max Dweck and

There's a few hours left on the clock. But the Kickstarter for Dave Sim's Cerebus Archive reproduction of original Cerebus art pages, this time from the

Olly MacNamee writes Now I love booze and I love comics, but which is better? Well, on this occasion, there isn’t only one way to find out - to paraphrase

The comic book store direct sales market is a hard beast to wrestle with. Sales numbers are never released, reporters are forced to make estimates. Entire

Nick Marino writes, The deadly FOC looms over Cougar and Cub #1! Our delectable duo are set to make their debut courtesy of Action Lab in January 2017.

Jamie Me writes, My name is Jamie Me, and I am a comic creator born in Yorkshire. My local area, the west of the county, is a utopia of character. If you

 A couple of Fried Pie-aligned exclusive retailer variant covers... the Rocket Raccoon #1 Fried Pie Variant by Ian McGinty, above. And the Dungeons &

This week's Batgirl And The Birds Of Prey #5 by Julia Benson, Shawna Benson and Claire Roe introduces the new Oracle.   Because it turns out in the

Variant covers are a symptom of the plague destroying the comics industry, artificially inflating sales numbers and profits without increasing readers or

That's the word on the street. That, spinning out of the current Clone Conspiracy series, we will be getting a new Scarlet Spider series written by Peter

As we move along this holiday season, we come to what is probably one of my favorite trades. My favorite Batman story, Hush. Now I'm in no way knocking

I haven't reported on a Groupees bundle in a while and this one seemed to come out with little to no fanfare... but damn it's a good bundle. The new Top

We have some pages from the upcoming next issue of Briggs Land by Brian Wood and Mack Chater. Grace is trying to protect her land from outside forces like

It's not like DC Comics' Green Arrow has never shied away from politics. He has the kind of politics that in most of the world would make him a centrist

A long time ago, when comic book creators handed their artwork into comic book companies, they never got it back. Some of it was stolen, some of it was

By Joe Glass, Bleeding Cool's Senior Mutant Correspondent  Marvel have decided to release more details (barely) to Entertainment Weekly, about the changes

Wednesday saw the release of Bleeding Cool Magazine #24, with the fourth annual Top 100 Power List Every year Bleeding Cool Magazine runs its Top 100

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and

In an incredible reversal of fortunes, Marvel Comics has turned marketshare around so it looks closer to early 2016, than after DC's fortune with the

R. L. Stine, the author of the Goosebumps novels is, at the age of 83, writing his first Marvel comic book. A new Man-Thing mini-series for Marvel Comics

We've been following and reporting on the Wizard World Vs Stephen Shamus case being going through the courts. With pop culture comic convention organiser