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Next week today, Bleeding Cool believe that DC Comics will announce a new ongoing Superman comic book, entitled Man Of Steel, written by Scott Snyder and

Time to go through your magazine boxes. An FN/VF copy of Marvel Preview #7 with the first appearance of Rocket Raccoon went for $8.50 a couple of months

There's something about issue threes. Sleeper-successful comic books often begin to turn around with issue 4. For those big surprise success stories,

Bravest Warriors is a brand new comic series created by Pendleton Ward, for Boom! Studios. If you don't recognise his name, he is the creator of Adventure

DC Comics are looking to reduced their stock of the following books by offering them to retailers at a massive discount. What that means is that in a few

Lucifer was the Sandman spinoff that could. By Mike Carey, Peter Gross and Ryan Kelly, it took the character of the Devil as portrayed in the Sandman

  We get it, gay marriage is the new hot topic in comics right now. Archie Comics, Astonishing X-Men, Earth Two, it's all the rage. So Jim McCann

With the revelation that Iron Patriot is, in some form, to appear in Iron Man 3, there suddenly appears to be a rush on the character's first appearances.

The Infinity Gauntlet by Jim Starlin, George Perez and Ron Lim is currently the number one best selling graphic novel on Amazon.com. I wonder why? On

In a move to avoid spoilers, Marvel switched the covers of Avengers Assemble issue 3 and issue 4. Which, given the ending of issue #3 now makes the events

Comic book stores have told me in the last month, they have seen a much greater interest in the appearances of Thanos in Marvel comics. And certain people

It cannot have escaped many people's notice that The Walking Dead is a popular comic book. So popular that retailers cannot keep up with its increase in

Yesterday lots of people got lots of comics for free. Then some of them put them on eBay. The star is, as expected, the Mouse Guard HC. It has sold for up

  In the early nineties, I self published a number of comics with Mike Meyer. Seven issues of a comic called Dirtbag, six issues of a comic called

Well it's taken long enough. But with the third and final volume of Phonogram being announced for later this year, Immaterial Girl, it seems there's been

It's not just the first few issues, and the first appearances of Michonne and The Governor that are going for big bucks on eBay. The most recent issues

Well ain't that a kicker? a copy of The Walking Dead #1 in CGC 9.9 condition has just sold for $7000. A year ago a copy in the same condition sold for

The greatest hope for the economy right now seems to be people selling their copies of The Walking Dead. We looked earlier at how the collections are

This chart is the only chart that measures "buzz", by looking at the comics being ordered by retailers after the usual orders are in. It measures the

The Amazing Spider-Man: Ends Of The Earth has only just started publication today. But the hardcover collection of the crossover is already on Amazon for

Here you go folks. The current asking - and getting - price of a copy of Saga #1 on eBay is $8.99. And one seller has sold five of them at that price -

Bleeding Cool looked at recent speculator fueled demand for a number of comic books recently, resembling the speculator boom that occurred around the

After a bit of a lull, we have Image first issue fever on us again. Anything published in recent weeks with an issue 1 on it, is rocketing in value. Check

Earlier we looked at comics published in the last thirty years that have been selling for over $200, raw, unslabbed, without variant covers or signatures

Here are the comics published within the last thirty years that have been burning up the top of the charts and selling over $200. All raw copies, no

There's nothing a comic book speculator loves more these days than a new issue number one. With Chew, Morning Glories, Nonplayer and more in their

Nothing can quicken the heart than the prospect of making a quick flutter at the comic store, picking up the last few copies of a gem, then flipping them

The standard cover for Fatale #1 from Image Comics has just successfully sold for $9.75 plus $3.95 shipping The standard cover Prophet #21 from Image

The backbone of the success of the DC Relaunch was the publisher offering retailers incentives to order more of the comics, so they could be easily bought

UPDATE: Now with added Rob Liefeld variant and original cover, in their street trade dress. Over the last few years, there has been a rule for speculating