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 There's a research project in there, somewhere. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: North Carolina Comic Shop To Boycott Action Comics One comic shop is North Carolina, The Comics Conspiracy, has decided enough is enough Because of this panel. Grant Morrison Responds To GD-Gate Grant Morrison has replied on DC's website saying; Fantomex, Rachel, Longshot, Madrox And Polaris On The X-Men Gold Team No[...]

Thanks to Mark Waid, a very different take on GD-Gate from 1964...

The subject of today's most-read story is not the first place I've seen it asserted that the new Action Comics is a significant departure from the Superman we know But let's look at the history — and Superman history is something that we know that Grant Morrison has studied carefully One thing Morrison[...]

This week, DC Comics published a new first issue of Action Comics, the series that introduced Superman to the world back in the nineteen thirties. In doing so, writer Grant Morrison, who had already written the insanely successful All Star Superman comic, took the character back to his original roots Reinvented as a social crusader, targeting[...]

In dream and then in flesh… Action Comics #1 by Grant Morrison, Rags Morales and Rick Bryant It's the business Simultaneously set in the present with some futuristic touches as well as the tone of the nineteen thirties, this comic is an anachronistic marvel A Superman who runs and jumps from mission to mission without a real[...]

Here's a preview of the now-sold-out Action Comics #1 available next Wednesday (or Tuesday midnight in the UK) courtesy of Yahoo… and true to Grant Morrison's word, he's a socialist crusader Fighting bosses who treat their workers poorly, the kind of peopl who usually avade the police Looks like he's keeping the red flag flying[...]

Not only will this be ten hours before they usually go on sale, but it will be fifteen hours before they go on sale in New York. The titles will be: Action Comics #1 Animal Man #1 Batgirl #1 Batwing #1 Detective Comics #1 Green Arrow #1 Hawk And Dove #1 Justice League International #1 Men Of War #1 OMAC #1 Static Shock #1 Stormwatch #1 Swamp Thing #1 I[...]

Whenever I want to try to capture that certain something that comics has, I often think about what it might have been like to have been there when one of the key moments happened — to have picked up Action Comics #1 off the newsstand, talked about it with my friends, and thought about where[...]

The final Action Comics before the DC Comics relaunch is published today We get the big end to the Return Of The Doomsdays plot, and it doesn't end well, as the Superman family and the Doomsday family clash for the final time Not everyone is walking out of there in one piece. But there's also a[...]

I kind of wish Jim Lee had gone forward with this Action Comics design, because it's a reinterpretation of one of the most classic Superman motiffs, which first appeared on a Superman cover on the original (and it's weird to have to put it that way, but here we are) Action Comics #13  by Joe[...]

Two designs by Jim Lee for his upcoming Action Comics #1 variant cover, but both rejected by him The former, apparently, does bear some resemblance to the finished version. Two designs by Jim Lee for his upcoming Action Comics #1 variant cover, but both rejected by him The former, apparently, does bear some resemblance to[...]

  Many of the comics he bought those 70+ years ago — which included numerous early Action Comics, Detective Comics, Flash Comics #1, Captain America #1, and many other comics — have stunned even the most jaded vintage comic collectors. As we've discussed here before, we're not going to see too many substantial original owner collections[...]

Not only was Bob Wayne in London talking about how another artist working with David Finch on Dark Knight would keep it on track. But Bleeding Cool has learnt that, despite solicitations, one of the major books of the DC Relaunch, Action Comics written by Grant Morrison will not have its second issue[...]

There's lots of news swirling around about Superman today, and DC has just issued a made-for-mainstream-news set of points covering what's going on with the relaunch, along with a bigger version of this morning's official, actual Action Comics #1 cover: He has been called the Man of Steel, the Last Son of Krypton and a strange[...]

From the NY Post, the cover to Action Comics #1 by Rags Morales, shipping from DC in September. Grant Morrison is quoted as saying "We felt it was time for the big adventures of a 21st-century Paul Bunyan who fights for the weak and downtrodden against bullies of all kinds, from robot invaders and crime lords[...]

There we go. A scarily angled video shot ogf Grant Morrison's address to the Hero Complex Film Festival at the weekend.

The official blurb for Action Comics #1 by Grant Morrison and Rags Morales gives us the impression that we're heaing for a Year One approach… This momentous first issue will set in motion the history of the DC Universe as Superman defends a world that doesn't trust their first Super Hero. Why does that sound[...]

DC Comics have just confirmed to the LA Times Hero Complex blog that Grant Morrison and Rags Morales as the creative team on September's relaunch of Action Comics. But, in a move that is either audacious or desperate — or a bit of both – DC Comics is making a break, at least in numbering,[...]

But the comics internet is on tenterhooks to know, well, who is the creative tam on Action Comics #1, if that is the single remaining issue one launch of the fifty two issue planned for September by DC Comics. I mean, from all I know, I think it is CBR has said that Grant Morrison is[...]

Yes, there's even more to get turned off by in Action Comics #901 if you are a Doomsday hater like me I hated his original appearance, I've hated subsequent uses… but can I be turned round by Paul Cornell's magic way with words? No No, I bloody can't. Kenneth Rocafort's art style for half the book doesn't[...]

And as for Justice, well that's debatable. Oh you thought Action Comics #900 had a monopoly on controversial storylines involving patriotic superheroic figures engaged in real world politics? Except in this case it's a story to get the liberals in a lather over, rather than the conservatives. Like if Captain America took down the people behind Wikileaks[...]

To no one's surprise, the news today here and elsewhere was dominated by Action Comics #900 I've heard that sales are brisk at the retail level, the book is still in stock for reorder at the moment, but that civilians haven't started wandering into shops asking about the comic they saw in the news. Yet Because[...]

Do you have your copy of Action Comics #900? Good I get the feeling it will be disappearing from shelves pretty shortly, even at that $5.99 cover price. As the headline says I was called up at home by a reporter on the Washington Times to talk about the events in Action Comics #900 I wrote[...]

Jimmy Olsen Oneshot is a strange beast to sell, initially made up of the Jimmy Olsen back up strips that ran in the $3.99 Action Comics before a reverse ferret was performed and all the books went to 20 pages, losing their back up strips in the proces Not all have been collected[...]

Rob Granito gets ignored for Geoff Johns and Zeb Wells, and we're right into tomorrow's comics from guys who have read them with Guy Gardner in Emerald Warriors, Jimmy Olsen's collected shorts, Action Comics as it all kicks up, Amazing Spider-Man, Kick Ass 2, Caligula (with Aaron calling for an Eisner nomination already), Avengers, Butcher[...]

As a longtime addict of the smell of old newsprint, it's strange to live in a world where I almost didn't bother to make note of the sale of a single

Is it a bird? Is is it a plane? Is it currently at $93,000? Yes folks, a copy of Action Comics #1 has entered the market Despite having a CGC grade of only 2.5, this 1938 comics is attracting rather substantial bids. This anthology comic features the first appearance of Superman, seen on the cover, engaged in[...]