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Well, All About Books And Comics are selling their copies, bought from Sothebys in 1992. Issue #1 is flat and clean with off-white pages, but the front and back covers have become detached from each other and the spine  The interior advertisement of the "Superman of America" coupon has been cleanly clipped out,[...]

SCARCE is a French magazine, running quarterly since 1983 focusing on American comics, available through subcriptions (7€ per issue, 25€ for 4 issues, shipped worldwide). Xavier Lancel is the current editor-in-chief and he will be providing [...]

Musician and artist Daniel Johnston likes comics And he's putting together his own comic book, Daniel Johnston's Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness. And doing it via Kickstarter. The comic will combine Johnston's comic stories and fan contributions, with access to digital content with music, additional storylines and other content. They have $3,000 to raise out of a[...]

Yesterday, Tony Lee and Tracy Lee got themselves hitched. This was their wedding cake. Yup, it's going to be one of those marriages, isn't it? Messages

With all the remaining members of the Comics Magazine Association of America having publically, dropped the Comics Code this past week, who'd have thought there would be Marvel news on this matter after they dropped it ten years ago? Well, Brian Clevenger has been promoting his new comic, Captain America: The Fighting Avenger #1 coming from[...]

Cause has yet to be determined but we will keep ya'll posted. The Daily News Journal reported a serious fire in the Outer Limits store  in Murfreesboro, Tennessee yesterday morning, that all but destroyed the entirety of the comics and toy stock kept there. The fire brigade were called at half past four in the morning but[...]

SCARCE is a French magazine, running quarterly since 1983 focusing on American comics, available through subcriptions (7€ per issue, 25€ for 4 issues, shipped worldwide). Xavier Lancel is the current editor-in-chief and he will be providing [...]

This is the kind of thing I know I will enjoy. And there just isn't enough of. From Stuart Immonen. A prototype for a isocahedral comic story. Let's see

NameWatch1: Marvel's Shadowland: Street Fighters collection collecting a bunch of different Shadowland comics has been retitled Shadowland: Street Heroes I just bet it has. ContentWatch: DC has cancelled Azrael: Killer Of Saints that reprints all the anti-Catholic stuff from David Hine I just bet they have. StripWatch: The Spokesman gets 4000 responses to its changing newspaper strip[...]

Image's upcoming-in-March series Rat Bastards has had a name change, as it appears there is a competing comic trade mark with the classic Crucial Comics title Rat Bastard A similar event happened recently with Utopian becoming Halcyon between solicitation and publication This has caused some retailers and consumers to misread one book as being another[...]

Shops who receive their comics this Tuesday for sale on Wednesday have been informed they are able to sell their bagged copies of Fantastic Four #587, the FF mystery death issue, as soon as they receive them, so as to mimimise spoilage for their customers They won't be able to sell the other Fantastic Four[...]

It's January. Which means, in the UK, the holiday ads start, the gym membership ads start, the slimming aids start and the partwork publications start.

Comics page content: 69 Previously unpublished comics page content: 7 Blimey, that's not much: Okay, enough with the numbercrunching. A lack of Frankie Boyle's Rex Royd is blamed on his busy work schedule – though why his co-writer Jim Muir (Reverend Obadiah Steppenwolf III) can't pick up the slack is not mentioned And it is a shame, because[...]

No matter what the quality, it's going to do well. SimsWatch: Chris Sims creates alternative comics ratings systems that are refreshingly not based on either existing movie or game ratings systems SimWatch: Dave Sim is a doctor with an exciting new theory That appendicitis is caused by poor diet in 95% of cases and anyone who doesn't[...]

Newsarama has reported that Archie has dropped the Comics Code with February books DC dropped it with April books Bongo dropped it early last year, though no one noticed at the time. Archie Comics were one of the founders of the Comics Magazine Association of Americaand were significantly involved in administrating the Code throughout. If[...]

I understand there are two more Flashpoint comics soon to be announced, and both have rather a British edge to them I can feel my patriotic pride. Namely, Britannia and The Canterbury Cricket Renamed from… I don't know… Squire and Knight? Say, I don't suppose Cricket could be a cross colonial reference to… Batman?[...]

If a publisher drops the Comics Code and doesn't send a press realease out, does it still make a sound? Yesterday, it was announced that DC Comics had pulled out of the Comics Code (something previous President and Publisher, Paul Levitz, had held very dear to his heart) in favour of a new rating system. But was[...]

The Indieverse is a new comics line from the controversial toy company Shocker Toys The company describes it as "a new comic universe like Marvel and DC which will feature ongoing story arcs with a diverse number of Indy Comic characters who will fight to destroy evil or become evil themselves." Sounds very indie[...]

Including going to court for scaling buildings in San Francisco in a Spidey suit. "We have a fundamental right to protest, but with those rights come responsibility" GIJoeWatch: Everything changes at GI Joe in the comics Because some one is dead For now. Seriously, folks. TweetWatch2: Mark Millar discovers Follow Friday. It's Follow Friday so check out: @kapowcomiccon @thehitchfactory @davegibbons[...]

It's written by the original creator, yes? Death's Head, the origial, returns to Marvel UK newstand kids-aimed comic, Marvel Heroes #33. Hulk Vs Death's

SCARCE is a French magazine, running quarterly since 1983 focusing on American comics, available through subcriptions (7€ per issue, 25€ for 4 issues, shipped worldwide). Xavier Lancel is the current editor-in-chief and he will be providing Bleeding Cool with[...]

Here's the headlines, based on DC Comics solicitation information for new monthly comics for April (minus the reprint, licensed, creator-owned and Vertigo titles).Thanks to some bargain books such as Action Comics #900, and the lack of $3.99 22 page books, DC comics are now 13.9 cents a page, 0ver half a cent per[...]

And they have picked their nominated comic books amongst that. As usual, GLAAD have eschewed anything that's not in the front of Previews or USA Today, valuing a prominent public face over the quality of work, but it's a worthy list nevertheless. Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Scott Allie, Brad Meltzer, Joss Whedon (Dark Horse[...]

The final issue of Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight came out today. But Buffy Season Nine is due to have a new look. As Georges Jeanty moves on to DC work, so it's time for Buffy to take a new artist in return. Bleeding Cool understand that Rebekah Isaacs, recently on the DC/Wildstorm book DV8 but also[...]

The other day, Bleeding Cool ran the unofficial story that DC was to rename a large number of titles to reflect the new/alternate reality/timeline as seen

The other day, I ran an article on the Discovery Channel upcoming piece on the late Marvel editor Mark Gruenwald. And his wish that his cremated ashes to

Here's the numbercrunching headlines, based on Marvel Comics solicitation information for March, for their Marvel Universe and Ultimate titles. Looks like we've reached a kind of plateau for Marvel's page/price points/item count Back to a four week month, as opposed to March's five weeks, we're still at 14.5 cents a page, with one more title than[...]

Asterix co-creator Albert Uderzo is being targeted by the French tax officials for being an "illustrator" not an "author" and thus not eligible to tax

When Virgin Comics approached me about starting my own line of books, I told them I had no idea, but my son might So, Weston and I brainstormed Voodoo Child There were a lot of stories that deserve to be told from there, so we ventured into it. RossWatch: DC Comics have, in the past, been[...]

SCARCE is a French magazine, running quarterly since 1983 focusing on American comics, available through subcriptions (7€ per issue, 25€ for 4 issues, shipped worldwide). Xavier Lancel is the current editor-in-chief and he will be providing Bleeding Cool with a look at[...]