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Retailers who attended the Dallas meeting of retail group ComicsPRO got a little swag. A variant cover for The Walking Dead #81. Isn't that nice? Might

Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting's final arc on Fantastic Four hasn't finished yet. But you can pre-order it in hardcover from Amazon.com for 53% off the

You can buy issue 1 of Halcyon on eBay for 99 cents But if you want issue 2 as well (right), you might have to pay up to $28. Diamond/Diamond UK losing

Looks like Amazon may have over ordered a few of these for Christmas and are now punting them out. The first Brightest Day hardcover, published in

That's one hell of a drop for such a massive book. Amazon UK are selling the massive 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking by Paul Leviz

So Fantastic Four #587 shipped a week ago, in its death bag. And some people have discovered their bagged comic contains a black-logo Fantastic Four

Image Comics gained a reputation last year for publishing a number of series that caught the comic book market by surprise. Morning Glories, Skullkickers,

It takes a lot for a new Big Two comic book to make it into Speculator Corner. All comic shops carry them, they are a lot easier to get than the latest

It has a black logo instead of a blue one. And the signature of Jonathan Hickman in silver ink on the cover. And no external sign on the bag. This is the

A copy of Batman: Vengeance Of Bane, the first appearance of the character now confirmed to be appearing in the new Batman movie, the Dark Knight Rises.

The other day, I ran an article on the Discovery Channel upcoming piece on the late Marvel editor Mark Gruenwald. And his wish that his cremated ashes to

Something very odd seems to have happened. Diamond Comics Distribution do not seem to have distributed the second issue of Halcyon, the debut Collider

A Two Day Weekend Pass To The Amazing Arizona Comic Con was $25. One Day was $15. The variant edition of Walking Dead #80, limited to the first 1000

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This year, Bleeding Cool tipped a number of books as ones to watch in the speculator market. So, based on current non-CGC, non variant eBay values, what

This new Image comic shouldn't retailer underordered, due to the gorgeous painted artwork, but you never know, Created over eight years by Hoang Nguyen,

Here's a few comic book bargains seen in the wild in this season of sales... tell me your best spots - and buys - and we'll add them! The Babysitter

You know those smaller, weirder titles from Image Comics that retailers don't order enough of and before you know it are suddenly on the retailer's back

Looks like it was no one-off. Weeks before the second issue of 27 by Charles Soule and Renzo Podesta is set to ship, it has already sold out its overprint

Matt Fraction talked to John Siuntres on Word Balloon a couple of days ago about Fear Itself. So what do we know? Well, the series will centre on Thor and

Bleeding Cool has already pointed out the effect that Hastings carrying exclusive cover variants can have on the market - even when they are still

It's not out till Wednesday. But a copy of the first issue of the new series 27 from Image Comics has just sold on eBay for $35 as a preorder. And more

We said this was going to be hard to find. We didn't think it was going to be this hard. Bleeding Cool picked 27 #1 as a comic with speculation potential

This week brings all sorts of interesting possibilities fo the comic book speculator - the individual who snaps up all the issues of a certain comic at

The second lowest ordered book of all time from Dynamite is coming out this week. Bring The Thunder #1, created and co-written by Alex Ross, written by

It's a $100 book. In the US, Amazon have preorders listed at $63, which is a good discount, 37% off. In the UK however it's a £75 book, which is about par

From the any-excuse-to-try-and-get-some-unit-sales Black Friday nonsense in the US that has, despite the UK not celebrating Thanksgiving Day, has started

No sooner has the rumour that the new Batman movie Dark Knight Rising will be based on Prey, the Doeg Moench/Paul Gulacy five parter story from Legends Of

Decades ago Scott Rosenberg was faking interest in his comic book Cowboys & Aliens, trying to get it made as a film - despite the comic book not

The Coming Of The Teraphiles, the Doctor Who novel by Michael Moorcock. What could be better for collective geekdom than this ultimate mash-up of