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US Tariffs in the Daily LITG, 4th of April 2025

The expected impact - and just the plain maths - of the new US tariffs on imports was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool again yesterday.

The expected impact – and just the plain maths – of the new US tariffs on imports was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool again yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround for the most-read stories the day before – as well as over the past six years. Founded sixteen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip 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 run around the day before and possibly the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. And maybe you just have.

US Tariffs in the top ten stories on Bleeding Cool yesterday

1. Latest Trump Tariffs About To Hit The Comic Book Industry Explained
2. CinemaCon 2025: Walt Disney Studios Presentation Liveblog
3. Win or Lose: Pixar Animator Posts Kai's Original Trans Storyline Look
4. The Boys: Misha Collins, Jared Padalecki Have Some "Winchester" Fun
5. Mary Jane Watson And Venom, The Perfect Couple, Official From Marvel
6. Introducing A New X-Man With A Really Big Gun In X-Men #14 (Spoilers)
7. The Naked Gun Teaser Trailer & Poster Revealed During CinemaCon
8. The Minecraft Meal Arrives at McDonalds with Adult Collectibles
9. Al Ewing To Replace Tom Taylor On Detective Comics Annual 2025
10. The Return Of Wyre After 30 Years in The Daily LITG, 4th April, 2025

And a few more of mine from yesterday

• Wilomina Graphic Novel from Metaphrog, Published By Scholastic Graphix
• How Captain Atom Could Be The Key To Inferno And The Legion Of Doom
• Ten Years Of Rick And Morty Comics & One That Will Never Be Reprinted
• Concert Of Champions #1 Featured Big Surprise Marvel Debut (Spoilers)
• PrintWatch: DC x Sonic, Frank Miller Daredevil, Venom and Transformers
• Udon Entertainment Leaves Diamond Books For Simon & Schuster

LITG one year ago, Final Days Of X-Men

1. Final Days Of X-Men Vs Orchis As Wolverine & Black Panther Go Beserk
2. Hip Hop Family Tree Creator Ed Piskor Dies, Aged 41
3. Christopher Priest Remembers M. D. "Doc" Bright
4. DC Comics Ask What If… Jason Todd Had Lived For Four More Issues?
5. Ed Piskor's Passing in The Daily LITG, 3rd April, 2024
6. The Full Slate Of April 2024 Content For Pokemon GO
7. Thor Reads The Next Issue Of Thor, In Immortal Thor #9 (Spoilers)
8. Bobbie Chase Retires From Comics, To Write Tell-All Book About Marvel
9. IHOP Partners With SEGA On New Sonic The Hedgehog Menu
10. Jim Viscardi Quits ComicBook To Be An Image Comics Vice President
11. Far Cry: Cull The Herd is Tokyopop's Free Comic Book Day Title
12. Hero Trade Bad Idea WonderCon Giveaway Comic Sells For $250 On eBay
13. Space Ghost #1 FOC Preview: Grim and Gritty Reboot
14. Latest From Scout Comics, Creators & Investors On Handling Bad Press
15. This Weekend's Free Detective Comics #27 Selling For $30 On eBay
16. Blood Hunt Starts Properly In Today's Doctor Strange #14 (Spoilers)

LITG two years ago… Michael B Jordan Behind Creed Sequel

1. Michael B Jordan Behind Creed Sequel Set 10 Years After Creed III
2. Is This The Uncanny Spider-Man? Fall Of X Fallout
3. RuneScape To Launch Fort Forinthry: Unwelcome Guests Next Week
4. Is This Marvel Confirming The Death Of Mary Jane Watson? 
5. Flash #796 Sets Up Something Big For #800 (Spoilers)
6. Secret Invasion Key Art Confirms June 21st Debut: Who Do You Trust?
7. The First Trailer For Blue Beetle Is Officially Here And It Slaps
8. The Orville: Stop Dragging Your (Mouse) Feet on Show's Fate, Disney 
9. DC Comics Will Show Jon Kent A Zack Snyder Superman (Spoilers)
10. Why The Comic Shop In Extraordinary Is Closed 
11. Printwatch: Spider-Boy First Appearance Sells Out, Goes For Seconds
12. Dan DeCarlo Covers Marvel's Millie the Model, Up for Auction
13. Poison Ivy Goes The Way Of Star Trek: Discovery (Spoilers)
14. Marvel Digital Toilet Paper – The April Fool That Wasn't
15. When Jim Zub Was Going To Turn Down Writing Dungeons & Dragons

LITG three years ago, Goodbye Jerry

1. Rick and Morty: Justin Roiland Confirms Jerry Michaels Passing, Age 15
2. Superman & Lois EP Teases Supergirl/Arrowverse "Answer" This Season
3. Willow To Be The New Vampire Slayer From April
4. Spider Gossip: Amazing Spider-Man #1 Is Set Six Months Later
5. Kevin Smith Gets Emotional Discussing Bruce Willis: WonderCon 2022
6. Titans Season 4: Joseph Morgan Introduces Sebastian Sanger- No Joke!
7. Saturday Night Live Goes Rock While Please Don't Destroy Goes Goth
8. Moon Knight Coming to Hasbro as They Debut New Marvel Legends
9. Captain Carter to Gunslinger Spawn, WonderCon 2022 Cosplay Day 1
10. Funko Reveals New Pride Collection Pops Featuring DC Comics
11. Biggest Golden Age Comic: Mighty Mouse Adventure Stories, at Auction
12. A Rare Look at Pulp Icon's Early Doc Savage Comics, Up for Auction
13. Mike Sekowsky's Obscure Atomic Age Hero Captain Flash, Up for Auction
14. Rarest Issue of the Most Obscure DC Comic "It's Game Time", at Auction
15. Crush & Lobo, Cheer Up! Love & Pompoms Win GLAAD Award for Comics
16. Captain Marvel and More in the Elusive Fawcett Giants, Up for Auction
17. Amazing Spider-Man #93 Tops Bleeding Cool Bestseller List
18. This Week's Batman Beyond Quotes Will Smith At The Oscars (Spoilers)
19. Seven New Comic Stores Open Across USA in MI, TX, FL, AL, NY, OH & IN
20. Maddie Frost Auctioned Rights To Her First Graphic Novel, Wombats!
21. Dan Of Green Gables Graphic Novel by Rey Terciero & Claudia Aguirre
22. Gene Luen Yang Writing Clash Of Clans Comics For 2023
23. Amazing Spider-Man Gossip in The Daily LITG, April 3rd 2022

LITG four years ago, WWE, Locke & Key, DC

1. Smackdown Results: Logan Paul Turns Heel First Night in WWE
2. Locke & Key Season 2: Smiley Villain, Dodge Mode & A Cold Process
3. Today, DC Comics Defines Deathstroke As A "Pedophiliac Rapist"
4. Target Limiting Sale Of Pokemon, Magic the Gathering And Sports Cards
5. DC Comics' First Omnibus, Deluxe, Compendiums, Collections For 2022
6. Deadpool Gets His Own Iron Man Suit With Sentinel Fighting Armor
7. Pokémon TCG Releases The First Partner Pack: Alola Today
8. Damian Wayne Vs The Father Of The Man Who Killed Alfred in Robin #1
9. The Boys: Erin Moriarty Extends Homelander S03 Finger He Deserves
10. Legends of Tomorrow S06E13 Might Need A Gender Reveal Stunt?
11. Avengers #500 Double Splash Page By David Finch At Auction
12. One Of The Rarest Star Wars Clone Wars Covers On Auction At Heritage
13. Quantum & Woody Cover by MD Bright Currently Under $100 at Auction
14. One Of The Joker's Creepiest Covers On Auction At Heritage Auctions
15. Has The Anti-Christ Already Joined Teen Titans Academy?
16. Claudia Gray's Superman: House of El Sequel – The Enemy Delusion  
17. Daredevil #1 Original Artwork Page Sells For $288,000 At Auction
18. Dave Gibbons' Full Challengers Of The Unknown Original Art At Auction
19. When Tom King Sold An Unpublished Black Knight Story To Marvel
20. Kay D's New Graphic Novel, Home For Horrors, Sold To Antheneum
21. Deadpool, The Boys and Pokemon – The Daily LITG, 3rd of April 2021

LITG five years ago, more comic stores closed.

And the direct market was not saved.

1. "Supernatural": Eric Kripke Pens What Sam & Dean Would Be Doing Now
2. More Comic Book Stores Close Permanently
3. John Byrne Originally Imagined a Very Different Wolverine
4. Marvel Pauses Work On Comics, Including Black Widow and Taskmaster
5. Ubisoft Releases The "Just Dance 2020" Song List
6. The "Super Mario" Remasters Will Likely Debut in One Package
7. "Psych": James Roday, Dulé Hill Announce "Psych-tacular Binge-A-Thon"
8. Bandai Announces Japanese Exclusive Gundam are Coming to the US
9. "Cyberpunk 2077" Goes Deluxe with Added Motorbike from Pure Arts
10. Juan Giménez, Co-Creator of The Metabarons, Dies Aged 76

LITG six years ago – Major X was a thing

And we learned more about Mark Alessi's passing.

1. That Ending of Immortal Hulk #16 Explained (Major Spoilers)
2. A Major Change Happens to Cyclops in Uncanny X-Men #15 (Spoilers)
3. Thomas Wayne Removed From Batman #70, Cover Changed
4. Neal Adams Opens His Own Comic Store in Burbank, Los Angeles This Weekend
5. Jai Nitz Responds to Allegations of Predatory Behaviour, as More Details Emerge

Comic book birthdays today

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

• Lance Fensterman, President of Global ReedPOP, organiser of NYCC, C2E2, ECCC, MCM and more
• John Wooley, comics historian
• Bob Rozakis, DC writer, editor, co-creator of Duela Dent, Mister E and 'Mazing Man.
• Dave Johnson, artist on Red Son, cover artist for 100 Bullets
• Heather Antos, comic editor for Valiant

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