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Choices must be made in Action Comics #1034, in stores from DC Comics on Tuesday The Warzoons are attacking the Fortress of Solitude, where Lois is holding down the fort with Thao-La But Superman is too busy trying to prevent war from breaking out between the United States and Atlantis to help them out, even[...]

Action Comics #1033 is in stores from DC Comics on Tuesday, and tensions are heating up in this preview, where Amanda Waller's agents run afoul of Atlantis, sparking an international incident As countries around the world choose sides between the United States and Atlantis, even the Justice League are squabbling Check out the preview below. ACTION[...]

Well, upcoming Action Comics issues see a major diplomatic incident kick off as "Superman is halfway around the world trying to stop the U.S from declaring war on Atlantis" Well, Bleeding Cool has learned that it is all Amanda Waller, seeking to use her Task Force X forces to steal an object of power, The[...]

Tomorrow sees the publication of the delayed Action Comics 2021 Annual by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Siya Oum, which returns to the world seen in Future State: House Of El But in doing so, it tells a deep dark secret about Krypton's past, which will affect the modern-day DC Comics continuity, as well as retconning[...]

Action Comics 2021 Annual #1 is in stores from DC Comics on Tuesday, returning to the story of the House of El from DC Future State It's an issue that promises action, romance, and the consequences of Clark Kent's actions in the future Check out the preview below. ACTION COMICS 2021 ANNUAL #1 DC Comics 0421DC035 0421DC036 – ACTION[...]

But also they have curios which beg the question – how much would you pay for this? Such as Action Comics #20 from 1940 without its cover, part of Heritage Auctions' current Sunday And Monday Comics Auction. Action Comics #20 Without Its Cover, Up for Auction from Heritage Most comic books without their cover would be worthless,[...]

Some that originally were meant to have been published by now… Action Comics Annual 2021 was solicited to be published last week, the 29th of June We now have a new date for it, next week on the 13th of July. American Vampire #10 was planned for the 13th of July, but has now been knocked back[...]

Action Comics #1 is probably the most significant of all American comic books, featuring as it does the first appearance of Superman by Joe Siegel and Jerry Shuster But there are copies of Action Comics and… there are copies of Action Comics Three such are up for auction at ComicConnect as part of their Session[...]

Time to start counting again! It looks like DC Comics will be reunumbering their collections for Action Comics and Detective Comics from Vol 1 again, for the post Future State/Infinite Frontier semi-relaunch Which means that the Phillip Kennedy Johnson-written Action Comics run which began with Action Comics #1030 will be collected in a new Volume[...]

And there's about to be more, because Superman rescues a space ship full of Kryptonian refugees in this preview of Action Comics #1031, in stores from DC Comics next week Plus a Midnighter story too?! It's two comics for the price of… well, for the price of what five of them should cost, but it's[...]

In recent Superman and Action Comics titles from DC Comics, written by Philip Kennedy Johnson, there have been plenty of teases for the upcoming death of Clark Kent, Superman Again While future solicits have Jonathan Kent taking over the role of Superman on Earth, and Clark Kent on WarWorld Today's Action Comics #1030 adds some[...]

A copy of the Action Comics #1 Ashcan recently sold for $204,000 at auction One of only three known copies, the last one sold for $50,000 twelve years ago and the other is in the DC Comics vaults Intriguingly, the Action Comics ashcan doesn't have any Superman in it, just pages from Detective Comics and[...]

In 1999, foundational comics creator Fred Guardineer recalled the inauspicious genesis of the character Zatara for the San Jose Mercury News, "My friend and editor Vin Sullivan said, 'Make it as much like Mandrake as you can without getting sued.'" Perhaps not the sort of origin that lends itself to a decades-spanning character, and in[...]

Action Comics #1029 was published on Tuesdays from DC Comics But something, it appears, was wrong And DC Comics informed comic book retailers that "due to printing damages, replacement copies of Action Comics #1029, main and variant, will be in store 4/13." We weren't entirely sure what the deal was.  Bleeding Cool reader and comics retailer[...]

Action Comics #1029 was published yesterday from DC Comics But something, it appears, was wrong No idea what, and it doesn't seem urgent enough to issue a recall, such as the Superman By Grant Morrison (And Sholly Fisch) Omnibus But DC Comics has informed comic book retailers that "due to printing damages, replacement copies of[...]

Yesterday saw the publication of Action Comics #1029 from DC Comics, following up on the previous issue's threat of the death of Superman Jonathan Kent knows that this is when his father, Clark Kent, will die in battle That's what trips to the 31st Century and History Class does to a man. And we get a[...]

And it's not the only direct reference, with this scene by Kieron McKeown… Crime Syndicate #1 by Kieron McKeown. Which does seem very rather familiar. Action Comics #1 cover. Of course, there's been quite a lot of that around this past week. Lois And Superman screencap. Crime Syndicate #1 by Andy Schmidt, Kieran McKeown and Bryan Hitch is published by DC[...]

The Superman DC Comics May 2021 solicitations for Action Comics #1031 by Philip Kennedy Johnson and Daniel Sampere, reads thus; "Warworld Rising" part two! After a war-torn battleship escapes Warworld and makes the perilous journey to Earth, Superman searches for answers about the identities of its mysterious refugees and their apparent link to the planet[...]

Action Comics fans all have their favorite covers and stories from the golden and silver ages, as Superman features some of the best and most iconic One of those covers that is a personal favorite of mine is #267, featuring Hercules punching a brick wall with a picture of Superman on it, sending bricks flying[...]

Action Comics #1 is one of the most valuable, most desired, most famous superhero comic books of all time It features the first appearance of Superman, from 1939, created by Joe Siegel and Jerry Shuster On the 24th of August, 2014, a copy graded as 9.0 by CGC sold on eBay for $3,207,852, the only[...]

Action Comics #1027  time, spoilers ahead Sometimes we all have mad thoughts Walking along the street, realising that you could just push the person in front of you into traffic Or on the subway, into the path of an oncoming train Mad thoughts, we don't act on them, the horror we feel from even thinking[...]

Action Comics #1025 spoilers ahead During Brian Bendis' run on the Superman books – one coming to a conclusion soon – we have seen a number of new characters come to the fore Including one Marisol Leone, head of the Invisible Mafia, an organised crime syndicate hidden from Superman's view Today, Brian Bendis, John Romita and[...]

Action Comics #1028 is described as "Brian Michael Bendis, John Romita Jr., and Klaus Janson wrap up their run on Action Comics with "House of Kent: Epilogue"!" while Superman #28 is "the Man of Steel's last stand in this final Superman tale by the superstar team of Brian Michael Bendis, Ivan Reis, and Joe Prado"[...]

Lois, who has never understood the phrase, "mind your business," inevitably goes stumbling into the aforementioned Red Cloud and therefore requiring the invocation of her high powered hubby. The cover of Action Comics #1023 Credit: DC Comics Smallville's finest, however, is not alone His teenaged son Jon Kent is back from a thousand years in the future[...]

In today's Action Comics #1023 from Brian Michael Bendis, John Romita and Klaus Janson we see Marisol Leone, head of the Invisible Mafia that runs Metropolis' organised crime networks and owner of the Daily Planet (until Jimmy Olsen #12 joins in with the continuity) But it seems that Superman has a bit of an issue with[...]

He joined DC Comics in 2018, taking over the Superman books from Action Comics #1000, introduced characters like Rogol Zaar and Red Cloud as well as the Metropolis Invisible Mafia, dealt with Jor-El returning to life, brought Ma and Pa Kent back to life, aged Jonathan Kent into an older teenager, brought back the Legion[...]

Action Comics #1021 is in stores from DC Comics next week, the conclusion of this latest story arc which sees Superman at the Mercy of Lex Luthor and Leviathan. The Legion of Doom have defeated the Justice League and Young Justice, and they've got Superman on the ropes as well. And Lex Luthor and his allies have[...]

Today's Action Comics #1020 drops a shoe from Brian Bendis' run on Young Justice, with Conner Kent – the Superboy/Lex Luthor clone who really shouldn't exist in this continuity, meeting Superman But rather that having some emotional moment, or a tonne of exposition, it's hurried and rushed, because Superman – and the Justice League –[...]

Action Comics #1020 is in stores from DC Comics next week, by "The Great One" Brian Bendis and John Romita Jr We've got a preview below. And in that preview we find, not Superman, but the teenage heroes of Young Justice, waiting outside the Hall of Justice, for Superman. Who loves nothing more than to make a[...]

Action Comics #1019 is in stores from DC Comics this week, by "The Great One" Brian Bendis and John Romita Jr., and we've got a preview below.         Here we find Lex Luthor and the Legion of Doom preparing for friendly meeting with the villain du jour, Leviathan. Though some members of the Legion have other ideas. But Leviathan[...]