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Daniel Best has run a full and fascinating report on a deal between Steve Geppi and the family of Archie artist Bob Montana to buy his collection of Archie Comics original artwork for $1,000,000, half of its valued worth in 2007 And how after the first two payments of $250,000 each, Steve Geppi stopped paying[...]

Time for a change of pace... “Genesis” Part Two by Ian Flynn, Patrick Spaziante, Tracy Yardley, Terry Austin, John Workman and Matt Herms continues the

Kevin Keller is Archie Comics' only out gay character The fact that he exists is a major jump in thinking for the company Then he got his first mini-series, now an ongoing comic series starring the character. Then today at the Gays In Comics panel at San Diego Comic Con, his creator Dan Parent told the[...]

TMZ are reporting that Archie Comics Publications filed papers in New York yesterday against the co-Chief Executive Officer of Archie Comics, Nancy Silberkleit, accusing her of sexual harassment and bullying. This included a repeated verbal assault in the offices "allegedly pointing at employees and shouting 'PENIS, PENIS, PENIS, PENIS.'" The first time in 2009, then again[...]

Bleeding Cool has been following the lawsuits by writer Ken Penders against Archie Comics, Sega and Electronic Arts (owners of Bioware) over a number of Sonic The Hedgehog-related comics he wrote in the nineties, in which details and invented characters he claims have been adapted into Sonic video games, specifically Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood,[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool told you what the Halloween Mini-Comics for 2011 were, able to be ordered by retailers in bundles for a small sum. Well now we

Blimey, they're not doing anything by half measures. No sooner have they introduced Riverdale's first openly gay character, then given him his own book,

Kevin Keller, Riverdale's first openly gay character, appeared in Veronica last year, created by Archie cartoonist Dan Parent, which also caused the comic in question to receive the first second print in the company's history. Well, sales, talk, and now the character is getting his own Archie title, joining Betty, Veronica, Jughead and Archie himself of[...]

And in June, Archie Comics#156 will see the gang dress up in style and attend their local show With a cover that probably breaks all sorts of trademark laws in the process. Most-Read TV/Film Stories Family Guy Writer Tweets Pearl Harbor Joke In Response To Japanese Earthquake Nonetheless, when a particularly tasteless tweet started rolling around the web[...]

And in June, Archie Comics#156 will see the gang dress up in style and attend their local show With a cover that probably breaks all sorts of trademark laws in the process. And, yes, as we said, Betty Sabrina in Slave Princess Leia gear. Ka-boom! Where could they go? Where could they find the space? Where is[...]

A high grade copy of Archie Comics #1 went for $167,300 at Heritage Auctions last week, setting a record for this issue that turned the heads of even dedicated collectors It's not often that non-superhero comics climb into this rarefied air, but the market on this one's been building for a couple of years[...]

This will be SUPER. Beware their Power: The War of the Green Lanterns Go Green. The Path to Spider Island Begins with Infested Marvel is pleased to announce Infested, an all new series of short stories beginning in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #659, leading into the biggest Spider-Man event of the year – Spider Island! And to set the stage, a[...]

Ex-Marvel Editor-In-Chief Tom DeFalco takes Archie to the land that time may have forgotten but clearly hair straighteners had not Drawn by Fernando Ruiz, the first part is published at the end of March, available at all good supermarket checkouts near you. Say, I wonder if Joe Quesada will be writing this kind of stuff in[...]

Here's a preview of Archie #617 by Stephen Oswald, Dan Parent, Bill Galvan, Al Milgrom, Rich Koslowski, Jim Amash, Jack Morelli, Glenn Whitmore and Digikore Studios… Looks like the Marvel Tsunami next week has got a little competition Here's a preview of Archie #617 by Stephen Oswald, Dan Parent, Bill Galvan, Al Milgrom, Rich Koslowski,[...]

Until that day, read on. Archie Comics app closes in on 2 million downloads – Archie Comics News Just before the end of the year, we were notified by our friends at iVerse that the Archie Comics app was at a little over 1.7 million downloads, inching ever so close to 2 million. Getting a Leg[...]

At the grand age of 88, Stan Lee has comic projects in double figures from several publishers and is, reportedly, getting his hands dirty with most of them. At comic conventions he is in heavy demand, with more signings, panels and public appearances than any other comic creator. At the last San Diego convention he was five[...]

Go on then Little Bleeders, what is this? Thank you Little Bleeders! Mega Man it is! The Capcom character to get an Archie comic spinoff! Go on then Little Bleeders, what is this? Thank you Little Bleeders! Mega Man it is! The Capcom character to get an Archie comic spinoff! Go on then Little Bleeders, what is[...]

Longtime Archie Comics character Ms Grundy will lose her battle with cancer in Life With Archie #6 according to the New York Times The issue will be in stores next week, with the story of Ms Grundy's death told by Paul Kupperberg and Norm Breyfogle Ms Grundy has appeared regularly in numerous Archie[...]

An hour later they had none. Seriously, this is going to hit everyone like a truck? Thought Obama Spider-Man or Death Of Captain America was bad? Get ready for Archie #616 The Huffington Post kicks it off… expect a lot more to come A lot!!! UPDATE: When we posted this piece earlier today, Diamond had plenty[...]

Back in 2005 I used to get e-mails from this guy; Alex Segura Jr. Public Relations Coordinator (Direct Market) Archie Comic Publications Then he went to DC Comics as Publicity Manager and, well, I stopped getting emails from him. And now he's back After announcing his last day at DC Comics last week, it looks like he's remaining on the[...]

This was the solicited cover for Betty & Veronica #251 from Archie Comics An innocent visual by Dan Parent of, um, two young women in bikinis, in high heeled stilettos and knee length boots in the snow. Hmmm. Anyway, in the issue about to be published, there has clearly been an influx of good taste, and the[...]

Kevin Keller, the first out gay character in the history of Archie Comics (about twenty to thirty years too late to be frank) has proved such a sales success in the Veronica comic book, that not only did he inspire the company's first second printing of an Archie comic, but now has his own four[...]

These include the Sunday Funnies set, including Beetle Bailey, Calvin And Hobbes, Archie, Garfield and Dennis The Menace. In addition, there is a stamp celebrating the work of wartime enlisted cartoonist Bill Maudlin, whose cartoons about army life, Willie and Joe enducated the audience back home about life in uniform, winning a Pulitzer Prize in the[...]

As I mentioned before, there is an IDW representative on the Archie panel at San Diego Comic Con. IDW, the West Coast publisher of titles such as Transformers, Locke & Key, Fallen Angel and Star Trek have become adept at taking original ideas and existing properties and providing an audience for them. So what are they doing[...]