Earlier this year, Bleeding Cool recorded that the highest price Absolute Batman has sold for on eBay was for Absolute Batman #1, a limited second printing, exclusive to Felix Comic Art, featuring Nick Dragotta's designs for the character. One, CGC slabbed at 9.8, signed by Scott Snyder and Dragotta, with a sketch on the front, which went […]
With speculation mounting over Marvel's new horror universe line, dubbed Midnight, fuelled by an earlier Bleeding Cool report, folk have been looking for precedent. And if, indeed, Jonathan Hickman is one of the major talents behind the line, what may have led to it? Well, Jonathan Hickman's very first Marvel comic, before Avengers, before Secret […]
Discussions I had this weekend confirmed something I had been hearing. That no one has ordered enough copies of the new Ben 10 comic book, the original Man of Action creators, the first issue written by Joe Casey, drawn by Robert Carey and published by Dynamite Entertainment. I noted in the Top 50 Most Anticipated Comics […]
It was the big hit of Free Comic Book Day, uncontested. As Reddit poster xTheLibrarianX put it, "Tell me why people were camping outside the comic shop at 8am and the first 5 people in line basically wiped out the entire stock of DCC #0. Now I'm already seeing them listed online for sale… 3-packs, […]
Bleeding Cool has been running a series of articles on BleedingCool related to the Pixelmon Media Golden Age Good Girls Facsimile Kickstarters of late. Well, the Kickstarter for the Black Cat Mystery #50 facsimile offers donors the option to guarantee a slabbed copy by CGC, 9.8 or better, for $89. And they are also suggesting that folk could get […]
After it was noted that a number of scenes in the new trailer for Spider-Man Brand New Day were attempts to recreate specific Spider-Man covers, the comics with those covers in question began to see added interest from comic book collectors, and a mad scramble for the right copy at the right price… There […]
Murder Drones #1 by Wyatt Kennedy and Jo Mi-Gyeong from Oni Press, based on the Amazon Prime animated series, is one of the recent comic book launches that definitely wants to be part of the Big Speculator Boom that seems to be hitting the comic book market right now, alongside the likes of the Absolute […]
So the new speculator boom in comic books isn't even waiting for the comics to be published yet. One particular tulip, appropriately called Nectar #1 by Jeremy Robinson, Annapaola Martello and Francesco Francini from Vault Comics, published next week, has already sold in advance on eBay this week for $48 before settling down to around […]
The first issue of the new comic book series Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #1 has just sold a standard raw cover comic for $50 on eBay, with lots of copies selling from around $35 to $40. The B cover as sold for around $35. And together, for some reason, they have sold for 100, though we're […]
Image Comics has hit pay dirt in 2026 already with the D'Orc launch. The hot new debut's been rocketing up the charts, sending speculators and retailers into a mad scramble to claim-jump each other for copies. Feverish hype surrounding Brett Bean's fantasy-humour has turned heads nationwide, and we're hearing multiple reports that D'Orc's rising tide […]
Two weeks ago, the new Image Comics title D'Orc by Brett Bean blew out of comic book stores and was selling for $40 on the day of release, It has dominated the Top 10 Hottest Comics lists two weeks in a row and now the standard cover has sold for $130, ashcan preview has sold […]
In a reminder of the types of comics they do best, which is manga, TOKYOPOP is celebrating romance and love in all its forms ahead of Valentine's Day as it announces a special manga sale that runs through February 28th. For a limited time, all print titles ordered via their website are 20% off using […]
Absolute Batman #1 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta was launched in 2024 to much acclaim and high sales, topping the chart with around 150,000 orders from comic book stores. It has now gone to ten printings, with orders for the most receent issues at 200,000 and then 300,000 for the Absolute Joker origin issue. […]
It was announced last night, not an April Fool, that Spider-Man: Brand New Day would be the name of the new Spider-Man film starring Tom Holland out next year. And eBay noticed. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is also the title of the Spider-Man run that was published directly after the infamous Spider-Man: One More Day […]
So, Robert Downey Jr is the new Doctor Doom for the MCU. And naturally, people have looked for precedents in the comics and forced the prices up in the aftermarket. That's for comic books which have been identified of course, Bleeding Cool has a couple that have not been identified as Doom/Iron Man mashups by […]
That Lady Deadpool might appear in Deadpool And Wolverine has been a common rumour, including that she may be played by Taylor Swift. Well, up till now, there had been no actual evidence for this. Until the new trailer dropped. Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld posted to X, "WHO DIS????" with a screencap of what appears […]
Yesterday eBay saw a stunning amount of sales of New X-Men #114 from July 2001, the first issue of the comic by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, and the first appearance of Cassandra Nova, who also appeared in the Deadpool And Wolverine trailer that dropped yesterday. Everyone knew that Cassandra Nova was in the film, […]
Tomorrow's Green Lantern #4 by promises a chance to "meet the all-new character SINSON, in the first installment of a prelude story the to upcoming Sinister Sons by Peter J. Tomasi and David Lafuente!" while next month states "in Rise of the Sinson: Part Two, Sinson's plan becomes clear: to claim his legacy, he must […]
In 2018, Bleeding Cool was first to report that Marvel Comics were promising a Skrull event comic for February 2019. It looked as if it were a sequel to Secret Invasion. And timed for the release of the upcoming Captain Marvel movie, along with Skrulls a-plenty. Later that year, Bleeding Cool was also first to […]
We are told that we will be getting a new Batman movie from James Gunn's DC Studios, "The Brave And The Bold – the DCU will introduce its Batman and Robin in this unusual father-son story inspired by Grant Morrison's comic series." And Damian Wayne, son of Bruce Wayne, Talia Ghul and the new Robin, […]
