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The covers for the sixth printings of Avengers Vs X-Men… that's right folks, retailers are still burning through early issues… will feature a green logo background and the pencils to the original covers by Frank Cho and Steve McNiven Only issue #0, #1 and #2 have been confirmed to have six printings so far,[...]

You can also see which covers are more popular.  Apparently Frank Quitely's freaked out zombie granny is not what the people want. With all that activity, it's impressive to see Captain America #14 burst through, whih indicates there will be a second print there very shortly, as well as for Batman #11. Image's new Revival #1 also[...]

The Catwoman Zero comic cover by Guillem March has caused a bit of a storm online Comics Alliance does a wonderful job of collecting some of the mockery aimed in its general direction Basically, it portrays the character posing in not only an anatomically impossible position, but in such a way that it beggars belief[...]

There's a new Retailer Incentive Cover for Ghostbusters from IDW But unlike previous covers where a small change was made on each cover to reflect the shop that had commissioned for those that ordered thousands of them, here the cover will be distributed 1:50 copies So for a shop to get one cover, they have[...]

Before Watchmen begins next week, DC Comics continue to show off new variant covers from the likes of Jim Lee and Kevin Nowlan, below. One they can't show off, however is John Byrne's Byrne hasn't produced new work for Marvel and DC in some time, and has seemingly fallen out with the management to such an[...]

  Heritage Auctions is selling the original art to the cover of Spider-Man #1 by Todd McFarlane, on behalf of its owner Martin Shamus, father of Wizard Magazine's Gareb and Steven Shamus The cover of Wizard #1 was famously based on this cover It's iconic and probably bsums up nineties comics better than any other It[...]

The artwork for the front cover of Tintin In America, from the nineteen thirties, will go on sale in Paris next month, with a price expected to fetch around a million dollars. Feel free to pose with your little finger crooked to the edge of the mouth. And we're back in the room Drawn by Hergé was[...]

It's the cover to Walking Dead #19 It's the first appearance of hit Walking Dead character Michonne It's drawn by Walking Dead co-creator Tony Moore And the original art is currently on sale for $50,000 Look, I know Walking Dead is massively popular and prices are ludicrous but even so…   Offer him $45,000 and see if[...]

Jesse James writes for Bleeding Cool; I started in the comic book world in 1982 (12 years young) and the magic cover price for an issue was .60 cents Coolness, .60 whole cents for full pages of excitement, thrills and get this, a sweet story line I listened patiently in line as box holders would pay[...]

Thanks to an anonymous sleuth at ECCC, this appears to be an unseen cover for the Image series Mind The Gap, by Jim McCann and Rodin Esquejo. The image appears to be drawn by Adrian Alphona and Christina Strain. It so unseen, I understand that no one else at Image has seen it yet[...]

Something for retailers, not for us common folk. What it means is that when the book launches in June, there may be some individualised cover customisation.   We already knew that something called Spider-Men #1 was coming This teaser combining the Peter Parker and the Mirel Morales spider symbols got a few people's attention and managed to[...]

Here are the two customizable retailer covers for Avengers Assemble #1. Retailers who order more copies of the regular version of Avengers Assemble #1 than they did for Fear Itself #7, will be able to order an additional 500 or more copies of this variant, customized to their own store's logo, with an ad on the[...]

From New Avengers #23, shipping in March 2012. A breakdown of how Mike Deodato did it using Copic sketch pens...  

This is the third time Marvel have revealed the cover to Uncanny X-Men #1 Once with silhouettes and once without This is the first time we've seen the bottom right corner though. Admidetedly this is the first time they've shown off the second issue cover So there is that as well I suppose Oh look,[...]

Finally, a Rob Liefeld cover that even the hardened yellow hat-wearing anti-Liefeld hater can enjoy. Note the continuing lack of feet. Finally, a Rob Liefeld cover that even the hardened yellow hat-wearing anti-Liefeld hater can enjoy. Note the continuing lack of feet. Finally, a Rob Liefeld cover that even the hardened yellow hat-wearing anti-Liefeld hater can enjoy. Note[...]

Two designs by Jim Lee for his upcoming Action Comics #1 variant cover, but both rejected by him The former, apparently, does bear some resemblance to the finished version. Two designs by Jim Lee for his upcoming Action Comics #1 variant cover, but both rejected by him The former, apparently, does bear some resemblance to[...]

There were almost eighty Godzilla #1 retailer-specific covers There were one hundred and fifty Amazing Spider-Man #669 retailer-specific covers. There are eight for War Goddess #0 from Boundless And rather than just having a specific aspect of the cover changed to reflect the store, five of them have completely unique covers And there is only a[...]

CLiNT #10 is the first issue in CLiNT's new rejigged six-weekly schedule, out on August 18th in the UK. Except it's coming out seven weeks after the

We've shown you the Phoenix Comics retailer variant cover from Amazing Spider-Man #666, in which comic stores have been able to buy 500-and-up print runs with their own store on the front. Well now here's one from Comics & More in Madison Heights, MI.  Indeed, this is one of the two covers that Dan Slott noted[...]

From the NY Post, the cover to Action Comics #1 by Rags Morales, shipping from DC in September. Grant Morrison is quoted as saying "We felt it was time for the big adventures of a 21st-century Paul Bunyan who fights for the weak and downtrodden against bullies of all kinds, from robot invaders and crime lords[...]

A sneak look at Marvel in October here… roll up roll up, we have two covers for Hulk #42, Avengers #1959 #1, Avengers: The Children's Crusade #8, Casanova Vol 2 #3, Dark Tower: The Gunslinger: The Battle Of Tull #5, Moon Knight #6, Mystic #3, Spider-Man: With Great Power #7, Superior #5, Punisher #4, Thunderbolts[...]

Here is Yanick Paquette's cover to Swamp Thing #1, a new series shipping from DC Comics in September. Links to Bleeding Cool's complete DC relaunch coverage Here is Yanick Paquette's cover to Swamp Thing #1, a new series shipping from DC Comics in September. Links to Bleeding Cool's complete DC relaunch coverage Here is Yanick Paquette's cover[...]

Bleeding Cool has already run pieces on the IDW Godzilla and Avatar/Boundless War Goddess mass retailer variant covers, but now Marvel has entered the fray with Amazing Spider-Man #666 If a retailer orders 150% of their usual Amazing Spider-Man numbers, and they can order 500 or more additional covers with their choice of personalised cover[...]

Issue one of the new series saw retailers able to get copies if they ordered 500 copies, with their store being destroyed on the cover The same logo, Godzilla foot and overall design, just your own store and in some cases employees embedded in It was a huge success, increasing sales of the book by[...]

The first print of Godzilla #1 from IDW had 74 retailers getting an exclusive store cover, when they made an order of 500 copies, featuring their store getting crushed by Godzilla's foot Before the promotion, a number of retailers didn't think they could make the numbers work After the promotion, and with so many retailers[...]

We'll leave commentary till later in the week, and we'll run a non-spoilery review later today. But if you absolutely absolutely must spoil yourself, click here for the spoilery cover,  click here for the AP report or click here for the Washington Post article based upon it Yup, looks like Americans beat BRitain to the spoiler… [...]