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Big credits to Bob Kane with Bill Finger, Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, and William Moulton Marston for the Trinity, as well as Gardner Fox for the Flash, and for Justice Society of America,  the first superhero team in comics, reviving it decades later as the Justice League of America, and Jack Kirby gets a solo separate[...]

Cebulski has just been made the new Editor-In-Chief of Marvel Comics. Regular readers of Bleeding Cool will know C.B Cebulski well Working for Marvel Comics since the early noughties, he was best known as the Talent Liason — the Marvel manager who would travel the world finding comic book artists at the top of their game[...]

We've got more covers (and details) about the upcoming Milk Wars comics that see DC Comics titles meet the characters of Young Animal, the comic book line curated by Gerard Way We'd already seen Frank Quitely's reworking of Superman as Milkman Man and now, courtesy of PR sent to The AV Club, we get to[...]

We mentioned the oddly specific success that the Christmas TV ad for the John Lewis chain has had, and its effect on people flipping night lights on

Final Order Cut-Off! The last date that retailers can increase (or decrease) orders of comic books without paying an advance reorder penalty. And Boom!

Italian website Fumettologica interviewed Jeff Lemire and had lots to ask him about his work, including current Image titles Descender and Royal City and Dark Horse title Black Hammer. But also about his Marvel Comics work and how the different books… well, differed. "Certain books like Moon Knight total freedom, they never gave me any notes and you can kinda see[...]

They will be offering up a special Stan Lee signed edition series collection of Thor #700 with a Chris Hemsworth Ragnarok Photo Cover. Barrucci says: We are celebrating nearly 25 years of providing quality and amazing comics that are also collectible and limited editions for fans worldwide This is a new golden age of superheroes, and we're[...]

Sold out and going to second printing is Coyotes #1 by Sean Lewis and Caitlin Yarsky from Image Comics It will be out on December 13th along with Coyotes #2. COYOTES #1 (W) Sean Lewis (A/CA) Caitlin Yarsky Underworld meets Sicario in this new miniseries from SEAN LEWIS (SAINTS, THE FEW) and amazing new artist CAITLIN YARSKY[...]

It didn't but rather than cancel the comic, Marvel Comics has just kept bumping it down the schedules for three years, with no sign of them ever putting it out of its misery One wondered what it would take. Turns out it took Brian signing an exclusive deal with DC Comics. Marvel has now told retailers that,[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] The Wicked + The Divine #33 from Image Comics by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matthew Wilson, Clayton Cowles, and Dee Cunniffe is going to be a tough one to review without spoilers, but I'm going to try. What I will say is that this issue is a game changer And damned if I don't admit[...]

They've tapped some of the top writers in comics to tell new tales of Ian Fleming's super-spy, including Warren Ellis, Andy Diggle, Benjamin Percy, Kieron Gillen, and James Robinson Now the publisher is offering up 37 of their OO7 titles digitally as part of a new Humble Bundle You pay what you can, and a[...]

Jason David Frank announced this morning that he will be returning to the Phoenix Comic Con in 2018, the site of May's gunman incident.

He said Wonder Woman and her classic supporting character Steve Trevor are still a couple, but that he was tempted to add a little of the romantic spark that has existed between Batman and Wonder Woman over the years in various adaptations. Look for it in the upcoming DC Comics February solicitations. Bleeding Cool told you[...]

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! Courtesy[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Defenders #7 from Marvel Comics by Brian Michael Bendis, David Marquez, Justin Ponsor, Paul Mounts, and Cory Petit, continues the run on the street-level gang of New York heroes They struggle against the rising gang war for New York as hands left and right fight to fill the void left by the Kingpin. The Defenders[...]

The end may be nigh for Wizard World. The company released its latest financial report today, and things are looking bleak.

Sapolsky has over 20 years experience in the publishing industry including creating France's premiere magazine about American comics books, Comic Box He has worked with many of Europe's top publishers in various capacities. He is also the co-creator of Spider-Man Noir for Marvel Comics, which he also co-wrote, as well as two creator-owned properties: One-Hit Wonder[...]

If you can't do that, how do you think you'll fair in the much more complicated machine that is monthly comics? 3 Try and try again Rarely does anyone "make it" their first try Take feedback, critique, and discussion seriously and work/study/learn/practice until you make it. Phillip Sevy was a Top Talent Hunt runner-up in 2013[...]

Secret Empire was a best-selling title for Marvel this year, but the act of turning Captain America into a Hydra fascist brimming with Nazi regalia and being judged worthy to wield the hammer of Thor saw him labelled a Nazi apologist, saw his comics burned and added death threats. Well, now Nick Spencer has a new[...]

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. A few weeks ago, a group of Girl Scouts came into the store to learn about comic books, which I felt was great One of my goals with the store is to get kids into reading They came in to learn what all goes into[...]

Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida writes: Hey Fandom! I'm back with a stack of new comics that I enjoyed The best of the bunch was The Batman Who Laughs one-shot It's a Joker/Batman mashup that was dark as hell — especially what happens to this universe's Superman family Donny Cates's Doctor Strange[...]

Writer Anthony Del Col (Assassin's Creed, Kill Shakespeare) and artist Werther Dell'Edera (Batman: Detective Comics, House of Mystery) bring the iconic teen detectives into the modern age, and redefine noir for a new generation of readers! Pathfinder: Worldscape Vol 2 HC writers: Erik Mona, James[...]

Dynamite has 16 items hitting comics shops, and we have previews for the first eight items including exclusive looks at James Bond and Army of Darkness.

Once upon a time, Amy Chu was the writer of the Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death mini-series for DC Comics It wasn't meant to be under group editor Eddie Berganza's books, but then suddenly he was Chu wasn't exactly happy about that, knowing stories about Berganza's harassment of women staffers well. But rather than quit the[...]

Targum, Remender, Feldsott, Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Mike Larocca, and Krieger serve as executive producers. First published in 2014 by Image Comics, here's the series synopsis for Deadly Class: "It's 1987 Marcus Lopez hates school His grades suck He has no money The jocks are hassling his friends He can't focus in class, thanks to his mind constantly[...]

This week, the plan was that the DC Comics media coverage would all be about the new Justice League movie out on Friday With comic stores running Justice League Day on the Saturday and a reprint of Jim Lee and Geoff Johns's Justice League #1 from 2011's New 52 relaunch with a new cover from Ivan[...]

We have it in comics with Eddie Berganza and seeing how this behavior doesn't keep you from being promoted Then we have it within comic and nerd journalism itself with Lucas Seigel. Earlier this month, Siegel was unceremoniously scrubbed from StarWars.com He's also a former editor at Newsarama and former managing editor at ComicBook.com[...]

Bleeding Cool has been informed by multiple sources of a major new editorial move by DC Comics. The standard expected working arrangements for writers and artists for over seventy-five years at the publisher is that the writer creates fully-scripted stories for the artists Well, from 2018, writers will be instructed to work the so-called "Marvel Method"[...]

We chatted with Erica Schultz, who is best known for her run on the Charmed series for Dynamite Entertainment, her creator-owned crime series M3, and being part of DC Comics's first Writers Workshop She will be a guest at NJCE, which is taking place this weekend, November 18th and 19th at the New Jersey Convention &[...]

Only Northstar and Kyle Jinadu are still a married couple in the traditional sense of the word… But Marvel Comics is announcing a wedding for two of its characters for the summer of 2018 — and ask you to save the date: June 20th. Who could it be? Black Panther and Storm, split Scott Summers and Maddie Pryor,[...]