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Coming to Heritage Auctions — a copy of the first appearance of Batman, Detective Comics #27 in 6.5 CGC condition Could get half a million, slated to be auctioned off on February 21st, it already has a bid close to a quarter of a million… Also on the block is John Romita Sr's Amazing Spider-Man #121[...]

Yesterday saw the release of the second trade in writer Charles Soule's Image series 27 (27: Second Set), but that's not his only story out this week.  Over on the Trip City website, sort of an online literary salon set up by stalwart indie creator Dean Haspiel, he's released Sal & Chrys, a short fable[...]

Last year, Bleeding Cool ran the news that the new Image comic book hit, 27, was running a competition, as people were asked to construct a message from music embedded in the comic book The prize would be a return air flight to the comic convention of your choice. No one worked it out So instead[...]

27 is an Image comic book, a supernatural musical mystery involving musicians who dies at the age of 27 -Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain The book follows one 27 year old man trying to escape his fate. Well, this weekend added another to that list, singer Amy Winehouse. I understand that[...]

Bleeding Cool reported way back that there was a puzzle in the pages of Image comics series 27 that, if solved, would win the clever guy or gal a free return flight to the Comic Con of your choice on your continent, or a major contribution towards a flight further afield. And while author Charles Soule[...]

So anyway, Mark Seifert posted those Detective Comics #27 production pages earlier today, and I was taken aback by just how much more defined they were than the published art So I found the comparative pages, pages 2 to 5 from the comic, to compare them all against… So anyway, Mark Seifert posted those[...]

Image scored with a number of eclectic titles from Chew to Morning Glories to Skullkickers to 27, with Walking Dead benefitting greatly from the TV series Scott Pilgrim took over the book charts with all six volumes as the movie hit And then there is Twilight Manga – and the continual success of the likes[...]

27 #2 by Charles Soule and Renzo Podesta ships this week, so it might be a good excuse to remind people of the puzzle within the comic – and the second print of #1 ships with #2. Pieces are scattered through the comics, with 27 guitar chords hidden on very specific pages throughout the comic Here[...]

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

Weeks before the second issue of 27 by Charles Soule and Renzo Podesta is set to ship, it has already sold out its overprint at distributor level and a second printing approved Just as the second printing of 27 #1 is set to ship with 27 #2, so the second printing of 27 #2 will[...]

Aaron and Tri-Force Mike from A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida return out of the cold in their suede and leather to take us through this week's comics from both a retailer and a fan perspective. And they express their love for Crossed, the penis-captation of Orc Stain, Marvel's one good book New Avengers and its[...]

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 are selling around $28 – $25 This one has already received 12 bids up to $8.50 with four days to go. It transpires that the print run for[...]

We didn't think it was going to be this hard. Bleeding Cool picked 27 #1 as a comic with speculation potential to watch last month Shortly afterwards we were told that the comic had suddenly sold out of its overprint at distribution level two weeks before it was supposed to ship (and three weeks before it[...]

Bleeding Cool mentioned that there might be a little more demand for this comic than retailers may have initially considered. I understand that, even though 27, the new Image comic from Charles Soule and Renzo Podesta, a fantasy about musicians and artists who died at the age of 27, won't ship until the first week of[...]