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By Tim Hanley DC fell slightly in April, but Marvel fell even more, allowing DC to retain the higher percentage of female creators for the fifth straight month.  DC's been on a decidedly average tear thus far in 2014.  We also check out a few other publishers' April books, including Dark Horse, Dynamite, IDW, and Boom. DC[...]

It was announced in March of last year that IDW Publishing was going to team up with DC Entertainment and The Library Of American Comics to produce a series of hardcover collections of the Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman newspaper strips The Superman and Batman collections were released previously. I wonder at the time how[...]

This is how they began. This is their more familiar Grant Morrison/Richard Case look.   This was a more recent pre-52 version of the team.   And

When composing the perfect eBay listing you should consider many things 1) The best possible picture of the item you are selling. Possibly use natural

This was the bit of the DC e-mail to comic book creators that seemed to cause the most issues among recipients who contacted me, There are a few significant differences between this new plan and what DCE has offered in the past.  Perhaps the biggest difference is that all participations will now be calculated based upon[...]

We asked "have the DC spods got enough time to amend it before the final issue is published next month? Or is it already at the printers?" Well, today we got that answer. Red trunks… begone! Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, launching the lost SMASH! art exhibition in two days time. A while ago we reported on the[...]

This was the originally solicited cover to Grayson #1. And this is the combover version, as spotted by DCWomenKickingAss But is there another change to come? Because this is the Batman teaser from before… Now check out Dick Grayson's barnet, right here. All a bit blond, isn't it? Well, from today's Grayson #1 preview in plenty of books… It does[...]

Just received in the mail, From: From the Office of the Co-Publishers Date: June 24, 2014 at xxxxx PM Cc: "DiDio, Dan", "Lee, Jim", "Ganem, Lawrence" Subject: DCE Participations Plan Update We have news to share regarding a project we have been working on for some time We will be rolling out a new, modernized participations payment plan effective July 1, 2014. DCE's current participation[...]

Last year, Karen Berger walked away from DC Comics after thirty-two years During that period, she rose to the Executive Editor of the Vertigo line which she created establishing a long line of mature readers comic books and graphic novels, including Y The Last Man, Hellblazer, Preacher, Fables, Kill Your Boyfriend, Pride Of Baghdad and Invisibles,[...]

Bleeding Cool has been running reports of next spring's DC Comics event which will see twenty two-part stories published over two months with a weekly series running through it, forty-eight issues in all. Last week we heard the news that we were to expect to see plenty of Pre-52 characters meeting others, which conjured the image[...]

Lord Of The Rings director Peter Jackson, former Robin Chris O'Donnell, Big Bang Theories Jim Parsons, Harry Potter himself Daniel Radcliffe,  upcoming Ant-Man Paul Rudd and Batman creator Bob Kane. The categories are Motion Picture, Television, Recording, Radio and Live Performance/Live Theater… Kane is getting his for motion pictures A shame there is no Comic Book[...]

Mike Deodato writes to Bleeding Cool, I was googling myself when I found this Aquaman image. My first thought was "hey, somebody swiped my cover!" but

Bleeding Cool has previously reported that DC Comics CCO Geoff Johns has been ordered that he may write no more than two comic books a month. Currently that is Justice League and Superman. Would he sacrifice one for another title? On Twitter last night, Geoff Johns teased his followers, saying, I miss writing the Justice Society. — Geoff Johns (@geoffjohns)[...]

From London Community TV channel London 360, Bobby Joseph, creator on comics such as Skank Magazine and Black Eye talking with fellow comic creators about

This is a first look at the plastic bags that DC Comics is giving out to comic stores on Batman Day, June 23rd, celebrating 75 years of the invention of the character by Bill Finger. Which comes in a year before British retailers would have been legally obliged to charge five pence each for them. So, stock[...]

Dynamite Entertainment and DC Entertainment are set to co-publish a story co-plotted by Quentin Tarantino and Matt Wagner where Django meets Zorro. From what we are told, Tarantino considers this a sequel to Django Unchained and it was worked out between the filmmaker, the comic legend Wagner and Reginald Hudlin who adapted the original screenplay, was[...]

Whatever you say online doesn't actually count… Red Hood And The Outlaws #32 is published by DC Comics today Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, currently exhibiting the work of Shaky Kane. I've never been the biggest fan of Scott Lobdell's work I think Generation X with Chris Bachalo was probably his high point for me, and[...]

Because this is not DC house style Anything but In fact it's possibly the least expected style for a regular ongoing Batman comic book you might come across and it's to be celebrated. Because this is the work of Ian Bertram A style that sits somewhere between Frank Quitely and Tony Millionaire – both of whom[...]

The considerable commotion saw artist Chris Sprouse withdraw and, officially, DC were looking for a replacement artist But actually they weren't, it was a lie to save face Incredibly embarrassed by the fuss, it turns out that no one involved was aware of Card's active and financial support for anti-gay marriage legislation – or some[...]

Appropriate? — Gail Simone (@GailSimone) June 16, 2014 I have a big meeting at DC Comics in a couple hours and I can't concentrate because I am thinking of this other thing Yipe. — Gail Simone (@GailSimone) June 16, 2014   Wasn't Obama a collector of Conan comics? He will probably have some suggestions for Red Sonja Fans! So pushy! —[...]

A DC Comics creator writes to Bleeding Cool about the Band-Aid project, as we have dubbed it, that will run during the publisher's coastal relocation and created well in advance Confirming much of what we've written, this is  from the horse's mouth Or, if nothing else the horse's stable boy. He (and there's your only clue,[...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34q0iIFuliI Before the Denver Comic Con, Mile High Comics held a pre-party event, fully showing off their Mega Store, and

I'm told of two more DC Comics editorial staff who won't be making the move from New York to Burbank – and, indeed, won't be spending any more time at DC Comics And both let DC Comics know yesterday. I'm told that newly promoted editor Katie Kubert of Batman, Detective Comics and Batman Eternal will be[...]

Shame, it's possibly my favourite of the DC Bombshell variant covers, advertising as it does a beauty product derived from the essence of the Lazarus Pit This Is What They Want.   We ran a bunch of these earlier but this one seemed to have little play Shame, it's possibly my favourite of the DC Bombshell[...]

The DC Comics Band Aid continues to peel off…. No sooner was the New 52 Relaunch underway (and folks found out that it was a stealth reboot) than people have been asking "when can we get the old stuff back?" Superman in his red trunks Batgirl in her wheelchair Amanda Waller in her size-plus clothing[...]

So what have we learned? After month after month after month of seeing DC Comics losing marketshare to Marvel Comics, things ust changed Last month their dollar share fell from 25.94% to 23.65%, sixteen points behind Marvel's 39.27%, the greatest gap and the lowest level since before the New 52 relaunch In June however, DC are on 30.04% and[...]

A look at some creative changes to your favourite comic books. Or possibly ones that you don't even read... Scooby-Doo: Where Are You #47 was... (W/A/CA)

The popular DC Comics game Injustice: Gods Among Us pitted superhero against superhero, supervillain against supervillain,  often from a variety of different parallel universes. I returned to it the other day after completing it on the iPad a while back, to discover a bunch of new levels, new characters and a Darkseid character challenge[...]

Here's another reason to pick up the print version of the digital first comic Infinite Crisis: Fight For The Multiverse from DC. As well as the comic, written by Dan Abnett with art from Szymon Kudranski, Carl Potts and a cover by Gene Ha, buyers wll also get a code to download a free comes with an individual[...]

Here's the full artistic list for the Harley Quinn Invades Comic Con International: San Diego issue, out next month. Amanda Conner, Marco Failla, Javier