Absolute Batman #18 had 330,000 orders from comic book stores... so exactly when will it hit 400,000 orders?
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How an unprecedented amount of Retailer Exclusive Covers help Absolute Batman sell over 300,000 every month...
J Scott Campbell's Cover Collection, Just Spectacular, from Marvel Comics in June 2026
Comic Store In Your Future on Marvel Comics' Tom Brevoort, gimmicks, blind bags and variant covers uber alles
Coverwatch: Marvel brings back S.H.I.E.L.D. with Stormbreakers Variant Covers in the style and fashion of Jim Steranko
As Marvel SVP and Executive Editor Tom Brevoort says, massive amounts of cover variants are all part of comic industry economics now. As for the twentieth
CoverWatch: Marvel Comics is doing Restaurant Exclusive Editions of their comics, like this Meals To Astonish #1 variant with José Andrés
CoverWatch: Tom Brevoort says variant covers are now "part of the rconomics" of comics... and it is all the Hulk's fault
CoverWatch: David Nakayama's White Colour Block Variants from Marvel Comics in April 2026
CoverWatch: I Hate Fairyland hates team-ups in Image Comics linewide variants running across the publisher in April
Coverwatch: All 33 Superman/Spider-Man #1 variant covers revealed so far, all in one place...
CoverWatch: All The Absolute Batman #15 Absolute Joker Covers
CoverWatch: Marvel Cosmic Invasion and Spawn: The Dark Ages Variant covers from Todd McFarlane and Liam Sharp
Absolute Batman Retailer Variants by Frank Miller, Jock, Sean Murphy, Clay Mann, Liam Sharp, Mark Brooks, Dan Panosian and more
CoverWatch: It's a while since we did a runaround of the retailer exclusive comic book covers that Marvel and DC Comics are making available to retailers DC Comics is offering covers for:
Static: Season One #1 (Order by 03/29/21)
Batman: The Adventures Continue Season II #1 (Order by 04/22/21.)
The Nice House On The Lake #1 (Order by[...]
CoverWatch is an irregular Bleeding Cool feature looking at variant covers for comic books, especially exclusive retailer variant covers, and the weird and odd places they sometimes go Last week, Bleeding Cool looked at the availability of the Batman Fortnite Premium covers Here's the first, going to FOC today through Lunar Distribution The minimum order[...]
Coverwatch! Time for a quick run-around any cover-based comics news of late For Titan Comics' upcoming Doctor Who: Missy, Claudia Caranfa has done a series of connecting portraits of various Masters (featuring Michelle Gomez, John Simm, Roger Delgado and Sacha Dhawan) The four covers will play out across the first four issues of the series.
Missy covers[...]