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Sixty Years Of Mary Jane Watson in The Daily LITG 4th August 2026

Sixty Years Of Mary Jane: Watson was the most-read article on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround

Sixty Years Of Mary Jane: Watson was the most-read article 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 seventeen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip for a further seventeen 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.

Sixty Years Of Mary Jane Watson and the most popular stories on Bleeding Cool yesterday

1. Mary Jane: Face It, Tiger #1 Preview: 60 Years of MJ's Jackpot
2. SPOILERS: How The Micronauts Are Coming To The Energon Universe
3. Prepare for Winter with G.I. Joe Classified Series Arctic Battle Pack
4. Transformers x Monster Jam Megalodon Brings New Power to Cybertron
5. Shield Reunion Ruined by AEW to End WWE SummerSlam Night Two
6. Witchblade To Team-Up With Thirty Image Comics Titles In September
7. SCOOP: The Micronauts Are Coming To The Energon Universe Next
8. Super7's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutagen Ooze ReAction 4-Pack
9. Comics! The Magazine Now $3.99, Gets Absolute Dungeon Crawler Carl
10. Warhammer 40,000: Henry Cavill Confirms Starring in Live-Action Series

And a few other stories I wrote yesterday…

• Alex Ross' Timeless Variant Covers Get All Inhuman On Us
• Capitol Comics Wins Summer 2026 Image Comics Select Retailer Award
• Absolute Batman #22 Cover Art By Jorge Molina Sells For Over $18,000
• SCOOP: Christopher Cantwell Gets A Fictional Red Shirt Star Trek Death
• Tramell Tillman's Spider-Man Character Based On A Real Life Figure
• Morgues & Massacres in American Mythology Full October 2026 Solicits
• Spyro Teaser Trailer in The Daily LITG 3rd August 2026

LITG one year ago Five Nights At Freddy's Cancelled

1. Five Nights At Freddy's Graphic Novel Cancelled After Pages Leaked
2. The Future Of Mary Jane Watson And Paul Rabin (Spider-Spoilers)
3. Marvel Confirms Venom's Red And Blue Spider-Man Costume In Venom #252
4. DC Absolute Editions: Man Of Steel, Batman RIP & Wonder Woman Historia
5. Batman, Green Arrow & The Question Vs A Billionaire by Gabriel Hardman
6. Hasbro & Rebecca Yarros Have Launched Priorities Fourth Wing Edition
7. DC Comics Compares Matt Fraction's Batman To His Hawkeye
8. Two Coloured And Inked Pages Of John Byrne's X-Men: Elsewhen
9. Red And Blue Venom in The Daily LITG, 3rd of August, 2025
10. Paul Levitz Announces His Next Book, Titled "Marvel Explodes"
11. When Marvel Comics Creators/Editors Visited The Fantastic Four Set
12. SDCC: Geeki Tiki/False Idol, The Pre-Game Of A San Diego Comic-Con
13. Shannon Hale & LeUyen Pham's Holly Jolly Kitty-Corn 125,000 Print Run

LITG two years ago, Red and Blue Venom

1. Marvel Confirms Venom's Red And Blue Spider-Man Costume In Venom #252
2. Batman, Green Arrow & The Question Vs A Billionaire by Gabriel Hardman
3. Two Coloured And Inked Pages Of John Byrne's X-Men: Elsewhen
4. Marvel Confirms The End 2099 by Steve Orlando With Spider-Man 3099
5. Paul Levitz Announces His Next Book, Titled "Marvel Explodes"
6. Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman & Emil Ferris All Support Angoulême Boycott
7. Ultimate Takes The Top Two In The Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List
8. The Vampire Lestat Season 3 SDCC Teaser Was Exactly What We Needed
9. Doctor Who: Billie Piper's The New Doctor (For Now) So Deal With It
10. Hasbro Debuts Transformers NYCC 2025 Armada Nemesis Prime Set
11. SDCC: Returning To Ride Around Twisted Metal At San Diego Comic-Con
12. SDCC: Returning To The Pac Man Cafe At San Diego Comic-Con
13. The End Of 2099 in The Daily LITG, 2nd of August, 2025

LITG two years ago, Scott Snyder's Absolute Batman

1. Scott Snyder on Absolute Batman & The DC Marvel Crossover That Wasn't
2. Grotesquerie Star Niecy Nash-Betts Finds Set Life One "Bloody" Mess
3. Whatever Happened To Deadpool's Daniel Way? Bleeding Cool Finds Out
4. Grotesquerie's Niecy Nash-Betts in The Daily LITG, 2nd of August, 2024
5. Tom Taylor Nightwing, DCeased and Injustice in DC Omnibuses For 2025
6. Magic: The Gathering Celebrates D&D's 50th With Five Secret Lair Drops
7. Only Murders in the Building: Selena Gomez & Eva Longoria Go "Mabel"
8. Olympics Pole Vault Result Shows Size REALLY Does Matter Sometimes
9. Absolute Death Of Superman and Absolute Red Son From DC In 2025
10. Comic Creators React to Colin Kaepernick's A.I. Comics Generator, Lumi
11. 8 Deaths Of Spider-Man Sees Him Up Against The God Of The Juggernaut
12. JM DeMatteis Is Surprised To Encounter His Fate
13. DC Comics' New Compact Titles, Including The Authority & Kingdom Come
14. How And When DC Comics Will Be Collecting The DC All-In Titles
15. Blood Hunt Takes The Top In The Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List

LITG three years ago with Pee Wee Herman

1. Pee-Wee Herman: Paul Reubens Honored by Cabazon Dinosaurs' Mr. Rex
2. Donny Cates, Missing Six Months Of His Life, After Car Accident
3. The State Of Marvel & The X-Men After The Hellfire Gala (XSpoilers)
4. Marvel Debuts Teen Deadpool In New Champions Sidekick Covers
5. Pokemon TCG Value Watch: Paldea Evolved In August 2023
6. This Year's Free Comic Book Day From Image Comics Now Sells For $40
7. New DC Direct Batman and Superman Statues Revealed by McFarlane
8. Kitty Pryde, Natural Born Killer Of The X-Men? (X-Men #25 XSpoilers)
9. The Bad Idea San Diego Comic-Con Party That Paid You $300 To Attend
10. Donny Cates' Car Crash in the Daily LITG 3rd August 2023
11. Blacking Out by Chip Mosher & Peter Krause, Now From Dark Horse
12. Tasia M S & Barbara Perez Marquez's To Dance The Moon And Stars YA OGN
13. Shook! A Black Horror Anthology Gets Picked Up By Second Sight
14. Kris Longo Steps Away From Heavy Metal Magazine As Publisher
15. José Luis Ruiz Pérez, Of Tiger And The Eye, Has Died

LITG four years ago, The X-Men Get Religion

1. Religion, Gods And The Cross In X-Men Comics Today (Spoilers)
2. Scoob! Holiday Haunt Co-Writer Baffled By Cancelation And So Are We
3. McDonald's Pokémon TCG 2022 Promotion Begins in August
4. The Flash Deserves Better; The Orville Deserves Season 4: BCTVDD
5. McFarlane Toys Officially Reveals the Return of DC Comics Super Powers
6. Batman & Detective Comics, Preparing For Grant Morrison? (Spoilers)
7. Pokémon TCG Value Watch: Fusion Strike In August 2022
8. HBO Max Removes 6 Original Movies And Pulls Another From The Schedule
9. Tini Howard On Betsy Braddock And Rachel Summers As Girlfriends
10. McDonald's Pokémon Promotion Begins in the Daily LITG 2nd August 2022
11. Emerald City Comic Con Changes Policy On Mask-Wearing
12. Rulah and Matt Baker's Phantom Lady in All-Top Comics, at Auction
13. DC Comics To Collect Early Detective Chimp Comics
14. When DC.Com Used To Be The URL For "The Crappy American Car Page"
15. The Rocketeer Meets Lyudmila Pavlichenko For Ukraine Benefit Comic
16. Not Even The Biggest Rob Liefeld Gun Can Save Arakko (X-Spoilers)
17. Scottish Independence Now Has A Spider-Man Of Their Own
18. Marvel Multiverse RPG Playtest Rulebook Released On Marvel Unlimited
19. Religion, Gods And The Cross In X-Men Comics Today (Spoilers)
20. Preparing For Grant Morrison in the Daily LITG 3rd August 2022

LITG five years ago, Bad Sign For Smallville

1. Superman & Lois Season 1 Finale Poster Not a Good Sign for Smallville
2. Rick and Morty: Harmon Sick of Anti-Vax Stupidity Being Smart-Splained
3. Resident Alien Season 2: Elizabeth Bowen Shares "Frickin'" Good News
4. Dan Lee Is The Stan Lee Lookalike Appearing At A Comic Con Near You
5. LEGO Reveals Their First Spider-Man: No Way Home Building Set
6. What Is The Shiny Rate For Wild Spawns In Pokémon GO?
7. Jesus Saiz and Paul Azaceta Join Jason Aaron on Punisher No More?
8. The Flintstones To Catwoman – DC Omnibus and Big Book Collections
9. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Charlie Day's Looking to Get Paid
10. More TMNT x Power Rangers Crossover Figures Arrive From Hasbro
11. Superman: Son Of Kal-El Gets 2nd Print, Phantom Starkiller Gets 4th
12. Five DC Comics Relevant To The Suicide Squad, Published Today
13. DC Comics Suicide Squad Character Who Led The Capitol Insurrection
14. TMNT New Character Find Of 2021… Arpil O'Neil?
15. Speculator Corner: Black Knight #5 Booms On eBay
16. Stage Review: The Windsors: Endgame – Spamalot Meets Spitting Image
17. Jed Mercurio's Graphic Novel, Sleeper, Out This Week
18. Batman #111 Sees Batman Fear State Rewrite The Future State
19. Dynamite Sells Exclusive Elvira Comic On Kickstarter, Not Comic Shops
20. Rickjecting the Riccine in the Daily LITG, 3rd of August 2021

LITG six years ago, The Robin King

I know he is called The Robin King but I just want to call him Robin King. You know, of the King family who live up on the hill. Anyway, he was no match for Baldur's Gate 3 which maintained its lead in the top ten of traffic – even though it didn't exist and still does not in the expected form.

1. Larian Studios Warns Players About Baldur's Gate 3 Pre-Orders
2. Baldur's Gate 3, or The Lack Of – The Daily LITG, 3rd August 2020
3. Cliff Counters: Defeating Team GO Rocket Leaders In Pokémon GO
4. Death Metal Gets New One Shots Including The Last Stories of the DCU
5. Rick and Morty Sold Out, Huh? Done with The Walking Dead? Who Cares?
6. LEAK: Who Is The Robin King in Death Metal Anyway? (Spoilers)
7. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Kaitlin Olson Starts Emmys Burn War
8. Does Batman Really Debut in His Dream Suit in Batman #96? (Spoilers)
9. Sierra Counters: Defeating Team GO Rocket Leaders In Pokémon GO
10. We Unbox the Funko X-Men 20th Anniversary Mystery Box
11. LEAK: Marvel Publishes Web Of Venom: Wraith a Month Ahead by Mistake
12. Conan Vs "The Feminization Of American Culture" in Flashing Swords #6
13. Image Comics to Publish Albert Monteys' Universe! in 2021
14. Comics & Complication: Let's Teach Kids About How Fun Drugs Are?
15. Stephen Colbert's Michael Brumm Writes Graphic Novel, The Cryptid Club

LITG seven years ago, Reed Richards got religious back in 2019…

1. Does God Exist? Reed Richards Reveals All in Daredevil #9
2. "Alita: Battle Angel" Star Rosa Salazar Would Play Alita "Til My Last Breath"
3. "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" Season 14: The Gang Does Laser Tag
4. Masters of the Universe: Origins- Let's Look at the SDCC Debut Set
5. "Swamp Thing" Dies on Vine in Rush to Finish Line [SPOILER REVIEW]
6. Will Absolute Carnage Make Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars #1 Canon? (UPDATE – No)
7. "Mr. Robot" Season 4: Leon's Your Guide to "Five/Nine" [VIDEO RECAP]
8. They Don't Make Hulks Like They Used To – Dead Man Logan #10 [Preview]
9. Captain Atom Arrives in Gotham in Next Week's Batman #76 [Preview]
10. Elementals Trademarks Go To War

Comic Book birthdays today.

There might be partially slightly more 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. With twelve years for us as well.

• Charlie Adlard, artist on The Walking Dead, co-creator of Vampire State.
• Gabe Yocum of Reed Expo
• Paul Hudson, owner of former Comics Showcase chain and author of The A to Z of British Newspaper Strips.
• Keith Champagne, writer/artist
• Mike Gold, writer, editor, founder of ComicMix
• Cindy Goff, writer of Tales From The Heart, Metropolis SCU.

If you are in comics and have a birthday coming up – or you know someone who has – get in touch at richjohnston@gmail.com.

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