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Remember, Remember Grendel in The Daily LITG, 5th Of November, 2025

Comic book store arrest for inappropriate Halloween Grendel comic book giveaways was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday.



Article Summary

  • Comic shop owner arrested for giving out Grendel comics to kids on Halloween sparks controversy
  • Top trending comic book stories from Bleeding Cool span Grendel, Batman, Lois Lane, and more
  • LITG looks back on seven years of November 5th comic news, from Sandman to Pokémon to Hulk
  • Celebrating industry birthdays with legends like Ram V, Jim Steranko, and more comics creators

Comic book store arrest for inappropriate Halloween Grendel comic book giveaways 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.

Remember, Remember Grendel in The Daily LITG, 5th Of November, 2025
Grendel by Matt Wagner

Comic shop owner arrested for giving Grendel comics to kids, and the top ten stories from yesterday

  1. Comic Shop Owner Arrested For Allegedly Giving Out Comics At Halloween
  2. Rob Liefeld And John Byrne Geek Out Over Dan Mora
  3. Whatever Happened To Tim Drake's Boyfriend, Bernard Dowd? BatSpoilers
  4. Cover Stories: DC Decides For Some Reason To Do "Punk" Variant Covers
  5. Ashley Rubright, The Comic Book Dealer Targeted By Jeffrey Epstein
  6. The Boys Star Bentley Alexander/Terror Passes Away: Cast, Kripke React
  7. Elon Musk Graphic Novel Considered "Election Advertising" By YouTube
  8. Go Behind The Scenes Of Marvel's Secret Wars On Kickstarter
  9. Jonathan Hickman & Mike Del Mundo Launch New Comic, Shift #1, For Free
  10. Bethesda Announces Fallout: New Vegas Desert Ranger Replica Helmet

And some other stories I wrote yesterday:

Batman #153
Batman #153

Remember the forgotten child of Thomas Wayne and the top ten stories on Bleeding Cool one year ago

  1. The Forgotten Child Of Thomas Wayne (Batman #154 Spoilers)
  2. Radical Lois Lane Spoilers in Action Comics #1074 & Absolute Superman
  3. SNL Officially Informs FCC of VP Harris Appearance; FCC Comments
  4. The Big Bad Of Absolute Superman Revealed (Super Spoilers)
  5. Marvel To Launch Peach Momoko Kimono Variant Covers For 2025- Kimoko?
  6. Cassandra Cain, Daughter of Batman… and Big Barda? (Spoilers)
  7. Matt Fraction, Gene Ha & Denys Cowan on Project 2025: The Comic Book
  8. The Penguin: Where's Batman? Some Reasons Why The Dark Knight Is MIA 
  9. Last Week Tonight: HBO Releases John Oliver Segment The Next Day?!? 
  10. James Gunn Addresses DC Studios, Compensating DC Comics Creators
  11. QR Codes Return To Marvel Comics In A Different Way
  12. Wonder Woman #15 Gives Fans What They've Wanted For a While (Spoilers)
  13. Where Is The Jim Lee & Scott Williams Cover For DC Vs Marvel Omnibus?
  14. Absolute Superman's Caste System, On Earth As In Heaven (Spoilers)
  15. The Absolute Big Bad in The Daily LITG, 4th of November, 2024

LITG two years ago, Remember, Remember Pokemon?

Remember, Remember Pokemon in The Daily LITG, 5th of November 2023
Gunpowder, Treason & Pokemon in The Daily LITG, 5th of November 2023
  1. Pokemon TCG Value Watch: Scarlet & Violet 151 In November 2023 
  2. More Reasons to Read Chip Zdarsky's The Knight Before Batman #139
  3. Joker Fight in Batman #139 Does Dark Knight & Killing Joke (Spoilers)
  4. What If Bruce Wayne Was The Bad Guy All Along? Batman #139 Spoilers
  5. Star Trek: Discovery: Wil Wheaton, "Ready Room" Share Season 5 Teaser 
  6. GODS #2 Preview: Too Late for Marvel to Back Out Now
  7. Pokemon GO Guide To Genesect's Different Drives 
  8. South Park: Elon Musk Not Getting the Point Helped Make Our Point 
  9. Spoilers! Batman #139 Is Out And About In The Wild
  10. DC's Full Creative Line-Up For 'Twas The Mite Before Christmas
  11. Titans: Beast World Lenticular Covers In The Flesh
  12. DC Promises a Very Smelly Christmas & Santa Claus in DC Continuity
  13. Batman #139 Spoilers in The Daily LITG, 4th of November 2023

LITG three years ago, Remember, Remember the Sandman Of November

Remember, Remember, The Daily LITG On The 5th Of November 2021

  1. The Sandman Season 2: Gaiman Knew for "Many Weeks"; Corinthian Icon
  2. DC Comics To Publish 30th Anniversary of Steel
  3. Comic Book Shops Upset With Whatnot Over Ninja Funk #1 Sales
  4. Whatever Happened To Swamp Thing: Green Hell?
  5. Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas Gets A Prequel For 2023
  6. Ironheart Wraps Filming; New Look at Riri Williams In Action
  7. Westworld Ends with Season 4; Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy Series Canceled
  8. TMNT: Shredder's Revenge Will Get A Special PS5 Edition
  9. Scrooge McDuck Gets A Glasgow Origin Graphic Novel In 2023
  10. Henry Selick On Getting No Credit For The Nightmare Before Christmas
  11. Lars Ulrich & Pete Wentz on Vault Comics' New Music Line, Headshell
  12. Michael Avon Oeming, Christopher Mitten & Lamar Mathurin Join 3W/3M
  13. George RR Martin Presents New Wild Cards Graphic Novel, Now & Then
  14. Things To Do In London If You Like Comics – November 2022
  15. Nightmare Well Before Christmas in The Daily LITG 4th November 2022

LITG four years ago, Remember, Remember

Do You Have A Plan For Your Comic Collection When You Die?
Photo by Chuck Rozanski
  1. Do You Have A Plan For Your Comics Collection When You Die?
  2. New Scream Posters Display Sidney vs Ghostface and Mini-Ghostfaces
  3. Hasbro Reveals Packaging for Star Wars Clone Wars Micro-Series Figures
  4. No DC Comics Police Calls Over Bisexual Superman Death Threats
  5. Tony Khan Unfairly Updates Dynamite Card After Moxley Announcement
  6. Swamp Thing To Get Second Season From DC Comics In 2022
  7. WWE Releases More Wrestlers Including Keith Lee, Nia Jax, Eva Marie
  8. WWE Reportedly Fired Nia Jax For Refusing To Get The COVID Vaccine
  9. Black Widow Dons Her Snow Suit Once Again with Queen Studios
  10. A Tale Of Two – Or Three – Poison Ivys At DC Comics Today
  11. Matt Baker Horror in the Elusive Voodoo Annual #1, Up for Auction
  12. LATE: The X+2 Weeks Lives And Deaths Of Wolverine, And Other Marvels
  13. The Unusual Horror of Chesler's Punch Comics #19, Up for Auction
  14. The Weird and Strange Pre-Code Horror of Mysteries #5, up for Auction
  15. Mariko Tamaki's Surely Books LGBTQ+ Imprint Adds New Graphic Novels
  16. Dark Horse To Publish Masters Of The Universe Coffee Table Book
  17. The Debut of Bill Everett's Zombie in Menace #5, Up for Auction
  18. Diamond Sent Out One Retailer's Exclusive Cover To All Comic Shops
  19. Marvel's First Werewolf by Night in Marvel Tales #116, Up for Auction
  20. Bad Idea Comics Asks Readers To Swap Pins For Rocks
  21. Cara Delevingne & Dami Lee's Most Important Comic Book On Earth
  22. Neil Gaiman's Ocean At The End Of The Lane Extends To 14th May 2022
  23. Christophe Ouvrard's Bronze Gladiator – November 2021 Hexagon Comics
  24. Scream If You Want To Read The Daily LITG, 4th of November 2021

LITG five years ago, Pokémon Go, Supernatural,+ and Avengers #38

Avengers #38 Rewrites The History Of The Marvel Universe (Spoilers)
Remember, Remember, The Daily LITG, 5th of November 2020

  1. Did Pokémon GO Just Add Permanent Mega Evolution To The Game?
  2. How To Catch More Shiny Pokémon In Pokémon GO
  3. How To Disable AR Mapping Quests In Pokémon GO
  4. Supernatural: Eric Kripke Urges Midwesterners to Be Like Sam & Dean
  5. Avengers #38 Rewrites The Entire History Of Marvel (Spoilers)
  6. Arrow: Stephen Amell's Flash/Supergirl Tweet More Than Meets the Eye?
  7. Saved by the Bell: Peacock's Best of Lisa Turtle Clip A Tad Bit Screechy
  8. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Gang Goes All-In On America
  9. The Final Darkrai Raid Hour of 2020 Is Tonight In Pokémon GO
  10. Avengers #38 Will Be A Very Important Marvel Comic, Apparently
  11. Mighty Morphin and Power Rangers Comics Spoilers For 2021
  12. Blade's New Blasphemous Nickname For Thor in Avengers #38
  13. The Horror When A Creator Forgets His Creation – Thor #9 Spoilers
  14. X-Men #14 Reuses Leinil Yu's Art To Give Genesis Version Of Arrako
  15. Mad Jim Jaspers Serves Up A Feast Fit For X-Men – Marauders #14
  16. Marc Silvestri and Batt's The Darkness #3 Cover Art For Auction
  17. Knull Comes To Earth In More Marvel Comics Than Expected (Spoilers)
  18. Comic Book Folk React To… The Presidential Election (Part Two)
  19. Comic Book Folk React To… The Presidential Election (Part One)
  20. Media Reports Of Riots in Manhattan – In Amazing Spider-Man #51.LR

LITG six years ago, Pioneers were banned

And not everyone enjoyed The Joker.

  1. Opinion: Pioneer Bans Will Be Fierce – "Magic: The Gathering"
  2. The X-Men Take on a Sentinel in New Iron Studios Statue
  3. "Joker" Review: A Spectacularly Dull Movie with Nothing to Say
  4. "Supernatural": Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles Respond to Arrest
  5. "The Terminator" (1984) Doesn't Stand the Test of Time
  6. Opinion: Why We Should Support "Magic: The Gathering"
  7. So "Watchmen" is "SORT of a Sequel"? Squid: "No Comment" [Opinion]
  8. "The Rookie" Season 2 "Fallout" Ripped From The Headlines [PREVIEW]
  9. "Terminator: Dark Fate": Fantasy Writer Joe Abercrombie Contributed a Major Element to the Movie
  10. All Hope is Lost in Justice League #35 [Preview]

LITG seven years ago, Immortal Hulk was getting a little uncivil.

And Lauren Cohan was back.

  1. The Death of Civility in Next Week's Immortal Hulk #8
  2. The Walking Dead's Lauren Cohan on Leaving Series, Season 10 Return
  3. How Tom King and Andy Kubert's Superman Pushes Walmart's Buttons
  4. The Walking Dead Season 9, Episode 5 'What Comes After' (LIVE-BLOG!)
  5. Alleged Kentucky Kroger Shooter Complained About Racebending Superheroes

Comic book industry birthdays

There may not be much of a party atmosphere right now. All depends on which state you are living in. But comics folk are still getting older and still celebrating that special date.

  • Ram V, of Swamp Thing, Justice League Dark and Laila Starr.
  • Jim Steranko, of Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • Cartoonist Diana Tamblyn of From Earth to Babylon: The Story of Gerald Bull and the Supergun.
  • Ron Fortier, writer of Green Hornet and The Terminator comics.
  • Robert Loren Fleming, writer and editor, co-creator of Thriller and collaborator with Keith Giffen.
  • Adriane Nash of Dream Factory
  • Trevor Mueller, writer of Albert The Alien
  • The First, Quasar, X-O Manowar and Green Lantern artist, Andy Smith.

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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 comic books The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne and Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from The Union Club on Greek Street, shops at Gosh, Piranha and Forbidden Planet. Father of two daughters, Amazon associate, political cartoonist.
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