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Goodness. Most retailers who ordered Unity #1 at returnable levels will be getting one copy of Unity #1 3D Cover, as shown on Bleeding Cool the other day Other copies will be made available for every 100 copies of Unity #1 ordered that each retailer doesn't return. Which means that each retailers with spare copies on their[...]

This Powerpuff Girls #6 Subscription Variant comic cover has been causing a little consternation Retailer Dennis Barger Jr wrote on Facebook, this is taking grade school girls and sexualizing them as way older, monster high school is at least high schoolers dressed and acting like normal high schoolers (as sexualized as actual high schoolers are) IDW's Dirk[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQO7s9wAuoU[/youtube] Anything DC can do, Valiant can do… well in America rather than China. The Valiant Unity #1 3D cover, available to retailers for every 100 copies of Unity #1 that they choose not to return Since issue #1 was made fully returnable, many retailers overordered to test the market[...]

This is the cover… This is Richard Pace's version… This is my version… There are probably plenty more to come… This is the cover… This is Richard Pace's version… This is my version… There are probably plenty more to come… This is the cover… This is Richard Pace's version… This is my version… There are probably plenty more to come… [...]

First it was to be a double page spread in Detective Comics #27 by legendary Batman creator Frank Miller. Then it was a variant cover. Then that cover was cancelled over what seems to have been negotiation over pay rates for its promotion from internal page artwork to cover artwork. There were complaints that this severely interfered with[...]

Well, if it's good enough for DC Comics… Valiant is issuing a 3-D Motion Returnability Cover, for their best-selling Unity #1, drawn by Clayton Crain and animated by the valiant team, fraturing X-O Manowar, Ninjak, Eternal Warrior and the rest. It will be made available to retailers who supported the original sale of the comic[...]

The top advanced reordered comic for last week… suddenly no longer existed. Detective Comics #27 Cover B used to be the Frank Miller cover But then DC Comics cancelled the cover So the entire order for that separately-ordered variant has gone… poof! And since FOC was set before the cover was cancelled, retailers may well not[...]

Marvel must have played very nice with Dynamite's Nicky Barrucci for this to happen. But king of the painted variant cover, Alex Ross, is painting a series of covers for Marvel throughout 2014 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Marvel Comics #1, one per month. The first is for Avengers #25 in January… Marvel must have played[...]

An advance sale of  the 3D cover of Joker's Daughter #1, out in a week-and-a-bit, for $130.01. But there are three ongoing sales of Joker's Daughter, one at $62 with a day and a half to go, that I'm thinking that something very silly is going on here. Remember, there will be tens of thousands of copies[...]

By Victoria Marsden I know it sounds strange, but ever since I saw this cover a couple of days ago it's been knocking around in the back of my head It's a feat to be able to convey a short story with nothing more than a panel, and Tomine accomplishes just that The plight of young[...]

UPDATE: Yanick Paquette has asked me to add the following statement: I feel this thing has been largely blown out of proportion and my early overly harsh judgment didn't take into account facts that I was unaware of. As I looked into my monthly comp copy to find out that all the Villains Months cover didn't sport[...]

Joe Gualtieri writes; Dave Costello has been my best friend for more than half my life. We met in high school bonded quickly over a love of comics. Since

Okay, you may have noticed that there have been eBay sales of the 3D cover of Dark Knight #23.4 Joker's Daughter #1 hitting over $30 on eBay. It's the hottest book of DC's Villain's Month in September. And the character's first appearance is on the last page of Catwoman #23, out tomorrow. I understand that, as we speak,[...]

UPDATE: Hello visitors from CapeTown! Feel free to wander around Bleeding Cool while you're here… After being missed out of the current Marvel Previews, here are the solicitation details and cover for Ultimate Wolverine #2, out in March as well as issue 1. And ooh look, my Royal Wedding artist Gary Erskine is inking the book –[...]

We recently reported that the Steve Ditko Variant for Amazing Spider-Man #700 was selling on eBay for over $1200 and copies are still selling for over a

They did a few, year after year, but along the way they actually had a decent catchy potntial hit I thought. And it appears to still be on the Marvel server, along with a bunch of them. So here, more appropriate now then ever before, Alternate Cover... [audio:http://marvel.com/rss/podcasts/Alternate_Cover.mp3]   [...]

It was one of the more talked about covers of the year The original art for Catwoman #0 by Guillem March Much criticised, much mocked, we expected it would be changed for actual publication – and it was. But what was the process? On his blog, March shows the process, the original sketches, the stages of[...]

An original art sketch cover of Masks #1 by Alex Ross. What we're asking you to do is visually redesign any of the main pulp characters in Masks #1 (aside from The Phantom, we did him last time) Post it in the Bleeding Cool thread below And I will pick the one tha appeals to me[...]

There is something mesmeric about the retailer specific variant covers when laid out like this… here's the latest batch for Masks #1, out this week, from Dynamite Think of it as a league of extraordinary pulp characters… [...]

Well, it worked for Marvel didn't it? Dynamite launches Vampirella Strikes in February with this Chris Elipoulos "Baby" "Cute" variant as a retailr incentiuve cover… VAMPIRELLA STRIKES #1 (of 6) 32 pages FC  •  $3.99  •  Teen+ Written by Tom Sniegoski Art by Johnny Desjardins Cover A) Michael Turner Cover B) David Finch Cover C) MIlo Manara Cover D) Johnny Desjardins • Chris Eliopoulos[...]

This image from Avengers #3 is a variant cover that is part of a massive image, intended to featurer every Avenger to date, as part of the book's fiftieth anniversary Expect a number of books, over a number of months, to have variant cover that will contribute to the big picture… Ooh look, 3D Man[...]

Not sure what the occasion is, but here's an eighteenth cover for Uncanny Avengers #1 The other seventeen are here… Not sure what the occasion is, but here's an eighteenth cover for Uncanny Avengers #1 The other seventeen are here… Not sure what the occasion is, but here's an eighteenth cover for Uncanny Avengers #1[...]

A couple of new covers for Saturday… a Leinil Yu cover for Indestructible Hulk #2 above… and Wolverine getting up to hellish nonsense by Pascual Ferry below…     A couple of new covers for Saturday… a Leinil Yu cover for Indestructible Hulk #2 above… and Wolverine getting up to hellish nonsense by Pascual Ferry below…     [...]

The rest of the Justice Leaguers do seem to be cheering them on… Justice League #13's variant cover by Alex Garner, with the sketch variant below. I know, I know. Look, someone was going to say it, might as well be me The rest of the Justice Leaguers do seem to be cheering them on… Justice League #13's[...]

Those who do not learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them. Batman #13 by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, featuring the beginning of the new Joker crossover, Death Of The Family will have an card over cover die-cut, on top of a new Joker cover by Capullo, preserving his new look until the cover[...]

This is the cover to Captain America #2, as published by Comic Book Resources Many people will look to the fact that he is unmasked Others to his long hair as doing a bit of a Thor impersonation. But many will ignore that child he's clutching the hand of Which would be a mistake. I understand the[...]

This is the blue sketch cover for Damsels #1 by J Scott Campbell The "Sea Blue" variant Dynamite only printed twenty-five And while certain retailers will be getting twenty-four of them, one of them will be going to a Bleeding Cool reader, the one who in my opinion writes of draws the the most entertaining[...]

While we don't have a visual yet, this appears to be the previously-unidentified fifteenth Walking Dead #100 cover An "appreciation" cover, sent to retailers who ordered Walking Dead #100 and, it seems, signed by someone Possibly Robert Kirkman or Charlie Adlard or both. Their last Retailer Appreciation cover for issue 75 was sent, one copy to[...]

Glenn Fabry's artwork for the cover for Vengeance Of Bane, the first appearance of the character currently appearing in The Dark Knight Rises is currently selling for $17,925 from Heritage Auctions, being sold by the Shamuses. Which is only just more than dealers were trying to get for the actual comic book at San Diego Comic[...]

Which has that all-important official veneer. And for the real obsessives amongst you, there are the Joseph Linsner CGC 9.8 graded covers for issues 0 and 1 of the series, restricted to stores who ordered 100 copies of the comics The rest of the covers, as always, destroyed…   For those of you who may have enjoyed[...]