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Who is this mystery guest star...? Age Of Ultron‘s surprising ending is meant to be top secret, only eight people are meant to know about it and Joe

 The census-topping CGC 9.8 copy of the first appearance of Rocket Raccoon in Marvel Preview #7 from Summer 1976 has just been sold for a record $2000 by PNJ Comics. There are 12 copies of this magazine on the census currently (though that number is likely to rise significantly this year), with none equal to or[...]

Seriously, we've all got longboxes, no one has thought "hey, what if these looked as good as the comics inside them? Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today: Bryan Singer Shows Off X-Men: Days Of Future Past's Cast – Including Some Surprises – TWO UPDATES Bryan Singer has amped up his Twitter teasing This time, no names of new cast members[...]

I think I'd prefer, say, a super-pet month… but a villain month will do just fine: So what is happening at DC Comics in September this year? In 2011 they launched the New 52, giving every comic a new #1 In 2012 they gave every comic a #0 issue So what's planned for September 2013? Most-Read Comic[...]

 And as some in the forum have mentioned, it'd be cool to see the return of at least one of the classic DC anthologies. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Is DC The Place To Be? Is DC Comics the place to be right now? Four Weekly Comics In The DC New 52 From October? That's The Rumour…  But as I understand[...]

DOA will also have Ennis penned tie-in web comics that will expand and further develop the concepts of the film series and characters We will be using the strengths of each medium to work together in creating a Crossed multi-platform program which is 100% Garth's vision The web comics will be unique original works that[...]

Still, it's the best info we have, and I have no reason to doubt it. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Orson Scott Card, ComiXology And Marvel One of the side effects of the Marvel #1 Free ComiXology now-paused-offer was that a number of people noted, possibly for the first time, the Ender's Game comics adapted from thework of Orson[...]

You? Marvel are giving away seven hundred issue ones of their comics, digitally, to everyone Your first hit is free right now… but only until Tues the 12th Can you download that many in that time? Most-Read Comic Stories Today Marvel Give Away 700 Issue One Digital Comics And Crash ComiXology, Launch Infinite Comics Weekly And Audio Adaptive[...]

  From Man Of Steel... From Supergirl solicitation on CBR...  

What's new from DC in June? The forum has already caught a few interesting tidbits. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: DC Solicitations For June 2013 – Except For Batman And Beyond Bringing in DC' solicitations, as revealed by Comic Book Resources, Comic Vine, Newsarama, IGN, MTV, iFanboy, Comics Alliance all into one spot… no sign of the Batman books[...]

New Universe Now: I’m not sure exactly what Marvel’s editorial response was initially to Jonathan Hickman when he suggested bringing back The New

It all ends. For better or worse.

It's an effective trick, used really well, and I'm surprised it's not used more in superhero comics It makes the very comic feel like it's shaking. Of course now we get to see what comes next We have a killer Hawkeye, a helicarrier fallen on Central Park and a heroic community, whoever is left, with very[...]

Tales from ECCC: I asked if it really came to down to the lack of merchandising sales, as Bleeding Cool had previously reported regarding Young Justice.

What is it about Brian Bolland being ripped off by European fine artists? First there was Erro, then there was ROD, and now there is Benoit Pare with this

  From Uncanny Avengers #4, an ignorant redneck, according to Red Skull. And from CNN, an ignorant red neck according to Piers Morgan. Possibly.

Interesting editorial concept here, and a pretty well-received group of covers according to the notoriously hard-to-please BC forum. Most-Read Comic Stories Today When DC's Batbook Covers Gently Weep the changing covers of DC's Batman-related comics for the next month in light of… recent events. It's A Good Time To Be Brian Bendis Well, there are big plans ahead[...]

In an arrangement with DC Comics, they have spoiled Batman Inc #8, out on Wednesday.   Not sure what's going on here yet, but they have everyone's attention: So we had this Marvel First thing Now Marvel asks us to count to 52 with some suspiciously Wolverine-looking cuts. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: I've Just Had A Terrible Thought About[...]

We've also got another year of stats under our belts, so we'll start to take a look at the trends at DC and Marvel. DC COMICS After a long mid-year slump, DC closed 2012 with one of their best months yet In December 2012, DC Comics put out 63 new books with 568 credited creators, 497 men[...]

In an arrangement with DC Comics, they have spoiled Batman Inc #8, out on Wednesday. Most-Read Comic Stories Today – Batman Inc 8 New York Post Spoils Batman Inc 8 Big Time Stay away from the New York Post (and possibly all other known media too) In an arrangement with DC Comics, they have spoiled Batman Inc 8,[...]

As the Heritage Auctions blurb says, "'This was the end of innocence for comics… it remains one of the most potent stories ever published,' was Arnold Blumberg's comment in Comic Book Marketplace."  Last year, Marvel Studios founder and producer on all the Spider-Man films Avi Arad told Hero Complex, "My favorite cover is "The Night Gwen[...]

The original cover art for Watchmen issues #1-3 by Dave Gibbons have just sold for a total of $216,892.50 at Heritage Auctions. The cover of issue #1 sold for $155,350, the #2 cover sold for $38.837.50, and the #3 cover hammered at $22,705.00. The Watchmen 12-issue series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons from 1986 is considered[...]

 Superman #76, the first real team-up of the two from 1952 (and an outstanding story it is), has long been one of my favorite Golden Age comics, so I'm looking forward to the latest incarnation of this pairing in Batman/Superman: Now, according a USA Today article written with DC Comics, Batman/Superman is to be a new book by Greg Pak making his[...]

Normally I'm extremely reluctant to spoil the end of a comic, and while this is one of those times that I think justifies it, it's not going to be in the headline, the first paragraph or in the search tags. Most-Read Comic Stories Today – Batwoman 17 Batwoman 17 To Dominate Media For DC Comics Today Okay, so[...]

Mike Allred's cover to It Girl & The Atomics #7 above... and below a hastily censored  Stephanie Seymour shoot by Herb Ritts.... feel free to google

DC Comics has been hyping up the upcoming Batman Inc #8, which has now sold out at the distributor level before its even been released, and has gone to a second printing, but I think this is the issue they could have arranged some national media for Or maybe they just realised they were going[...]

We told you that Hello Kitty comics were coming from Viz, and debuting at San Diego Comic Con. Well, you may need to make an earlier date in your diary May the fourth, Free Comic Book Day In which Hello Kitty will be making a back up appearance, along with Pokemon and Mameshiba in the Ugly[...]

It was clear from our recent talk with writer Kieron Gillen that he has developed a very specific, detailed, and intense vision for his new monthly series

We've already talked about a rumour of a Death Of Wolverine story in 2014, resulting from Wolverine's healing factor damage sufered during time travel trips in Age Of Ultron. Did Dan DiDio Apologise To DC Comics Creators? Before the recent top-secret DC creative summit, Bleeding Cool ran a suggestion box, printing suggestions from actual DC comic creators[...]

Phonogram, Uncanny X-Men, Journey into Mystery, Iron Man, Young Avengers… Kieron Gillen has written quite a range of comics in recent years  And in April, Avatar Press will launch Uber by Gillen and artist Canaan White, described in the solicit blurb for issue #0 with: Germany is in ruins The war in the west can only[...]