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The check that DC Comics used to buy Superman has to be one of my favorite bits of comic history to surface in quite some time I have a hunch we'll be hearing learning more about this in the days to come. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Fanboy Rampage: Comic Con Vs Mens Fitness It was accompanied by rather[...]

It has long been part of the record of comic book history that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster sold the rights for Superman to Detective Comics, Inc (the company which was to become DC Comics, of course) for $130. Here is the March 1, 1938 check that DC Comics publisher and accountant Jack Liebowitz issued to[...]

Moe Ferrara writes for Bleeding Cool: Following the hectic weekend known to us New York geeks as NYCC, I had an opportunity to catch up with Dana Shukartsi, inker for the upcoming release Alpha Girl from Image Comics. The story is one that is sure to grab readers right off the bat The year is 1984[...]

After that when Joanne gave him a haircut, they decided to keep some of his hair in a container because one day, who knows &fans might be interested to see the hair that grew out of the head that came up with the idea for Superman! He wrote a humorous note on a small[...]

Paul Gravett is one of the most respected people in the British Comics Industry Dubbed the Man At The Crossroads by Eddie Campbell, he is principally responsible for bringing the UK small press to mainstream attention in the eighties, introducing many formative creative teams, and publishing a number of them, creating the Comica festival that[...]

During NYCC week, DC announced that the New 52 had sold over 5 million comics in 6 weeks  At the time, second prints on many titles were just starting to appear in stores, and 3rd prints on a few titles had been announced  Now comes word that one of the most critically acclaimed debuts of[...]

As well as The Grifter for DC and The Activity, his new ongoing series with Micth Gerads for Image, it appearas that Nathan Edmondson has a couple of new

Nowhere is this more evident than in the practice of costume play, or cosplay. "This year, attendees all appear to have colluded in advance to imagine the most popular heroes and villains of comics, movies and anime as doughy, sickly, weak, infirm or, in the most impressive examples, morbidly obese What we observed[...]

Comic fans have voted on the endings of comic book stories before now. They have voted on which stories will continue. They've voted on who lives and who

 A classic of the Silver Age and beyond. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Mattel, DC Comics And The Elongated Man – We Smell A Mystery! Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors Well, it seems like there's a limit on that obscureness Swamp Thing is fine, Metron and his chair is positively encouraged but… Elongated Man?[...]

But is there something we missed? As well as the skin change, he also lost his head hair and gained a little facial fungus. Here's the original character. Here is how he is portrayed by George Perez in Superman #1. This is the co-publisher of DC Comics, Dan DiDio. Let's try a little animation… Moo hoo ha ha. In Swipe File[...]

Swamp Thing is fine, Metron and his chair is positively encouraged but… Elongated Man? Only a few years ago, he was a starring part of Identity Crisis, and before that he led the Justice League Europe. But it seems that when it comes to a figure for the line, licensee DC Comics are less than willing[...]

In late 1941, just months after the successful launch of Captain America Comics #1, Joe Simon & Jack Kirby parted ways with Marvel over issues with Captain America royalties According to Simon in his autobiography Joe Simon: My Life In Comics, Marvel's accountant had told him, "I'm sorry about these royalties You're getting twenty-five[...]

John Byrne writes; As sometimes happens when a story idea percolates for a long time -- too long? -- my plans for NEXT MEN: AFTERMATH have hit a

Mexican comics news blog La Covacha confirmed a couple of days ago that Senior VP Talent, C.B Cebulski, would visit Mexico in November in search of local artists for Marvel Comics. Humberto Ramos and friends are organizing a comics convention in the Kapow style called FESTO cómic with over sixty comics creators showing off their[...]

Let's join some dots. Purely speculation. Nothing more, let's make that clear. No inside sources. Just reading between the lines. Exactly. Mark Millar has

IndiaWatch: Comic Con Express does good business in Mumbai. Saturday saw the return of Adventures of Timpa by Indraajal comics, narrating the escapades of a teenage detective and his grandfather, a session with publisher Karan Vir Arora, founder of Vimana Comics — who unveiled Shiva: The Legends of the Immortal and Green Gold Animation, the creators[...]

How did you know?" Squirrelling Out Details On Watchmen 2 Sometimes all you do is have to mention its name, and lots of bits spill out. 27 New Jobs At Marvel Comics – As Interns As the Marvelcution hits one side of the business, with more jobs feared to be hit shortly, so Marvel begin advertising on[...]

There do seem to be a lot of digital positions, don't there? East Coast Marvel Internships Art Returns: Have you ever wondered what an actual page of comic book art looks like before it's shrunken down, covered with word balloons and colored? Are you proficient in Excel and Word? Then this is the department for[...]

I thought: "People will laugh at me 'cos I'm doing superhero comics I'd better make 'em really clever, then no-one will laugh." [laughter]." 2002 With the exception of some of the earlier pieces, much of these interviews were conducted outside the comics press The result is a selection that approaches his work from a less typical[...]

Here's one from the Comic Bug in Manhattan Beach [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LHUrSIyT4A[/youtube] And one from Legend Comics in Omaha [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3GFoA0hSr8[/youtube] Here's one from the Comic Bug in Manhattan Beach [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LHUrSIyT4A[/youtube] And one from Legend Comics in Omaha [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3GFoA0hSr8[/youtube] [...]

I'm taking the kids to see The Lion King today. 2D, obviously. They've never seen it. So, leaving things purely in the hands of Computo... This is Computo

 I'm often tempted to conclude these trending posts with strange days in comics, but I think that goes without saying, pretty much every day. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Iron Man 2.0 Cancelled With Issue 12 It was listed in December But not in January And I've just confirmed that, yes, Marvel have cancelled Iron Man 2.0 with issue[...]

Something he's working on...

At New York Comic Con, Marvel said that they didn't have any future Stephen King comics planned. But IDW, it seems, did. In February they'll be pubisihing Road Rage, adapting father and son team Stephen King and Joe Hill's story, Throttle, into two parts from editor-in-chief Chris Ryall and Nelson Daniel (The Cape) Joe Hill is also[...]

It should be quite a shock when they hear what we're doing." And Little Bleeder chatting to Andy Kubert over the weekend discovered that; "Mr.Kubert said that after his Action Comics job he was hoping to finish a Batman mini-series about Damian This was a mini that he was writing and drawing and was[...]

From the Rio Comic Con, we get a look inside Legendary Comics editor Bob Schreck's bag… and thge news that their One Trick Rip Off will have 100 pages of the unseen Paul Pope manga from fifteen years ago, Supertrouble. Blimey Listen to him say it… From the Rio Comic Con, we get a look inside[...]

Iron Man 2.0's last issue was in December. Alpha Flight's last issue is in January. It was only made an ongoing series with the current issue... Here's

Last weekend, Bleeding Cool ran a piece looking at seven points addressed in Marvel's upcoming Point One oneshot. Well here are seven more. 1. Bodies that

This is the advert for Galaxy Comics in Saginaw, Michigan It ran during the premiere of Walking Dead on his local cable station I happen to think it's rather good for its type. This is the advert for Galaxy Comics in Saginaw, Michigan It ran during the premiere of Walking Dead on his local cable[...]