Marvel Comics' January 2025 solicits and solicitations have dropped with launches for Deadpool/Wolverine, Ultimate Wolverine, New Champions, Sam Wison: Captain America, Magik, Rogue: The Savage Land, Cable: Love And Chrome, What If Mickey And Friends Became The Fantastic Four, Doctor Doom Vs Rocket Raccoon, Daredevil: Unleash Hell, What If Galactus Transformed Hulk, Rogue, Gambit and […]
We ran a couple earlier today, and Marvel released a few as news stories over the past week. But here are the first two weeks, plus a bit, of Marvel Comics January 2025 solicits and solicitations, with all the covers Bleeding Cool can muster, With X-Men, Namor, Star Wars, Spider-Gwen, Avengers, Werewolf By Night, Daredevil, […]
We have Marvel Comics' full December 2024 solicits & solicitations, leading with a look into 2025 with Timeslide… as well as launches for Laura Kinney: Wolverine, Ultimate Universe: One Year In, All-New Venom, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Infinity Watch, TVA, Kidpool & Spider-Boy and Hellverine. TIMESLIDE #1 STEVE FOXE (W) • IVAN FIORELLI (A) • […]
Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported on a new book by Chaz Gower called Stan Lee Lied. Full title, Stan Lee Lied: Your Handy Guide to Every Lie in The Origins of Marvel Comics. It takes the Stan Lee-authored Origins Of Marvel Comics currently being reissued for its fiftieth anniversary, and systematically attempts to disprove as many of the statements in […]
Chaz Gower has written a new book called Stan Lee Lied. Full title, Stan Lee Lied: Your Handy Guide to Every Lie in The Origins of Marvel Comics. And it does exactly what it says on the tin. Dedicated to Bleeding Cool favourite Bob Beerbohm (Bleeding Cool gets itself a couple of mentions), it takes the Stan Lee-authored Origins Of Marvel […]
Marvel Comics November 2024 solicits and solicitations have dropped… as Jeff The Landshark gets his own Venom War spinoff one-shot. Did anyone see that coming? But all the rest of Spider-Man, X-Men, Blade, Deadpool, Wolverine, Fantastic Four, Avengers and the lot…, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #61 JOE KELLY (W) • ED McGUINNESS (A/C) • VARIANT COVER BY […]
Bleeding Cool has a list of previously unannounced Marvel Omnibuses, many of which are being reported on Bleeding Cool for the first time. We had previously highlighted Strikeforce Morituri, New Warriors and Marvel Fanfare, but there is also Spectacular Spider-Man, X-Factor, Wolverine, Giant-Size Marvel, Silver Surfer, Cosmic X-Men, May 1965, Spider-Man, Captain America, Onslaught Aftermath, […]
Marvel Comics' solicits and solicitations for October 2024 have dropped, with issue one launches for Storm, Moon Knight, Iron Man, Ewoks, Venom War: Fantastic Four, Blade, Mystique, Sentinels, Conquest 2099, Crypt Of Shadows, Ghost Rider: Robbie Reyes, Alien: Romulus and Star Wars: Battle Of Jakku. STORM #1 MUREWA AYODELE (W) • LUCAS WERNECK (A) Cover […]
This is not the kind of thing any previous Spider-Man writer had to deal with. Not even Stan Lee or JMS. But Zeb Wells married Saturday Night Live performer Heidi Gardner fourteen years ago in 2010. And so, a split makes the headline of People Magazine, which in this case reads "SNL's Heidi Gardner Details 'Painful' […]
Marvel Comics is currently having a Creative Summit as their Juky 2023 solicits and solicitations drop, with the first of the From The Ashes X-Men books, Aliens Vs Avengers, What If Donald Duck Became Wolverine, Life Of Wolverine, a new Spider-Man: Reign II, lots of Blood Hunt and.. a new Namor by Jason Aaron, Paul […]
In Amazing Spider-Man #45, in the middle of the Gang War event, we looked into a Oscorp basement lab being run by Dr Curtis Connors, otherwise known as The Lizard. This is The Ultra Living Brain, created by Randall Steven Petty following his father's research into the question "Who is Spider-Man?". Originally seen in Steve […]
Amazing Fantasy #15, the first appearance of Spider-Man by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee is also the first use of Aunt May giving wheatcakes to her nephew Peter Parker. Which are, for the uninformed American-style pancakes made with whole wheat flour and buttermilk, beaten eggs, butter, and egg whites. Although Aunt May has a more involved […]
Ultimate Spider-Man #3 by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto is published today. The original Spider-Man – and the original Ultimate Spider-Man – have a kid who has lost his father figure, learning to use his own powers for good and in doing so prevent the kind of harm that befell him. With great power there […]
Marvel Comics has released its June 2024 solicits and solicitations, with the new Ultimates #1, the return of Venomverse Reborn, a Scarlet Witch relaunch, the big X-Men #35/Uncanny X-Men #700 however you want to count it, Blood Hunts for Wolverine, Jubilee and Magik, X-Men: Heir Of Apocalypse, and the Uncle Scrooge and the Infinity Dime […]
Former 30th Century comic store owner Will Morgan made quite the find the other day which sent me down a rabbit hole. He posted to Facebook, "In addition to comics, I sometimes flog vintage mags on my eBay page, and was surprised to discover this item about Jack Kirby's daughter in the women's mag Petticoat […]
The earliest known use of the phrase sloppy seconds is in the 1950s. The Oxford English Dictionary's earliest evidence for sloppy seconds is from 1953, in Berkshire Evening Eagle of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. A crude term referring to a person having sex with another, after they have already just had sex with a third party, it can be used […]
It's time. Marvel's May 2024 solicits and solicitations in full, a little earlier than some might have expected. As Blood Hunt plays out across pretty much all of the Marvel Universe, and Amazing Spider-Man hits an issue 50 with Marv Wolfman joining Zeb Wells… and Wolverine goes for the big five-oh as well, with Benjamin […]
It was something I was talking to Ramzee Hassan about last year. A British graphic novelist, he got to write some Spider-Verse anthology comic books. And he told me that, when creating Spider-Man variants at Marvel, he would be told that every Spider-Man needed an Uncle Ben moment. Someone in their life who died because […]
Amazing Spider-Man #33 by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee was the final part of Spider-Man's first multi-part story, If This Be My Destiny…!, and is famed for an extended scene in which Spider-Man was trying to lift heavy machinery off himself in order to get much-needed medicine to his Aunt May in time. The story […]
Tomorrow sees the release of Ultimate Spider-Man #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto. and it is making big changes to the Spider-Man way of doing things. Some we know. Some will hit hard. Spoiler-sense activate! In this world, The Maker, the Ultimate version of Mister Fantastic, stopped the radioactive spider from biting Peter Parker. […]
