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 Daniels was the author of numerous books on the history of American comics beginning in 1971 with Comix: A History of the Comic Book in America, and including widely-read histories such as Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics, and DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes[...]

Unless the dogs eat the kid… DC Comics Smashes Marvel Marketshare In October, Takes 51% Of Sales Well what a change half a year can make After taking Marvel on marketshare for the month of September, albeit only by half a percent in dollar marketshare, in October DC Comics has soared ahead, buoyed by sales of[...]

The news of DC Comics topping Marvel by a significant margin in the monthly marketshare battle was the talk of the town today, even making its way into the mainstream outlets via the AP wire  With the Avengers film & related comic plans on the one side, and Watchmen 2 on the other side, this[...]

A glimpse at some upcoming Marvel releases took the top two slots today, with Rich's take on today's New 52 releases rounding out the top of the charts

In 1966, after being the exclusive artist on The Amazing Spider-Man and the "Doctor Strange" feature in Strange Tales, Ditko left Marvel for reasons never specified. Ditko then worked for Charlton and DC Comics, making major contributions, including a revamp of long-running character Blue Beetle, and creating or co-creating the Question, the Creeper, and Hawk and Dove[...]

At least you can delete those regretted tweets. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: New Covers For Old – Justice League Dark #3 The solicited cover for Justice League Dark #3. When A Comics Pirate Is Really Silly Here's an e-mail that a Bleeding Cool reader recently received; When DC Clicked CC Instead Of BCC Well, the other day it was DC Comics'[...]

One of the great debates in vintage comic book collecting circles is over just how many comics from the 1930s-1960s are left out there in the world,

No matter what the underlying distribution reason and no matter what the printing, it's interesting to see copies of the New 52 #1's continuing to flow

Considering the cost of comics today and their ever-fluctuating price points, page counts, and formats, it's hard to imagine a hike of two pennies causing

Wright to deny Marc Toberoff's motion to strike several claims in DC Comics v Pacific Pictures Corp first came to my attention from a post by Mark Zaid, a Washington, DC attorney specializing in cases involving national security, who also has an interest in comics and the intersection between comics and the law —  last[...]

Posting on those forums and his own DeviantArt page, he's created a CG galley of X-Men as X-Women and vice versa. Most-Read TV/Film/Game Stories Today: Jim Lee Draws Leonard As Lion-O In The Big Bang Theory Last night's Big Bang Theory took place in the local comic store, still full of first issues of the New 52[...]

Wolverine And The X-Men #1. Fifteen Thoughts About Fifteen New DC Comics Today 1 The Flash #2 moves from physical speed to mental speed and gives us a Flash learning to tap the Speed Force with his brain – and Manapul gives us a seemingly Frank Quitely influenced look at how that actually works. Ivan Brandon Leaves DC[...]

The check that DC Comics used to buy Superman has to be one of my favorite bits of comic history to surface in quite some time I have a hunch we'll be hearing learning more about this in the days to come. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Fanboy Rampage: Comic Con Vs Mens Fitness It was accompanied by rather[...]

It has long been part of the record of comic book history that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster sold the rights for Superman to Detective Comics, Inc (the company which was to become DC Comics, of course) for $130. Here is the March 1, 1938 check that DC Comics publisher and accountant Jack Liebowitz issued to[...]

We've mentioned high-end comic book auction house Comic Connect a number of times on BC, primarily because there have been four comic books in the world