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At the DC Comics Roadshow in Chicago a little while ago, Wonderworld retailer Dennis Barger Jr complained about not being able to see variant covers before ordering them. DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio told him that in the future, retailers would be able to see such covers before the final deadline to order them and, apparently,[...]

Bleeding Cool has been publishing a number of articles about whatever it is that DC Comics are putting together in advance to cover the time they are spending moving across the country. We're calling it The Band-Aid It'll do for now. And millimetre by millimetre as we begin to peel it off, we're discovering more[...]

Here are fourteen of the upcoming Batman 75th Anniversary Variant Covers shipping from DC Comics in June… and starting with one, in mid production, that you might not have seen anywhere else yet. Green Lantern #33 by Ethan Van Sciver Justice League #33 by Darwyn Cooke Justice League Dark #33 by Kelley Jones Action Comics #33 by Kevin Nowlan Detective[...]

So I'm calling it the DC Band-Aid. A large number of DC Comics being prepared in advance to run for two months in April and May 2015 to cover the move of the DC Comics offices from New York to Burbank. It was going to be headed up by ex-Marvel Editor In Chief Tom DeFalco[...]

I've heard from a lot of the people loving it that they are happy that it's not just the same old, "MASSIVE THREAT, LETS ALL BAND TOGETHER TO STOP IT" stories. The Wake is selling like crazy for us, going head to head with some of the biggest Marvel & DC titles Five Ghosts sold even[...]

Recently MAC launched a line of Wonder Woman make-up, that got considerable coverage. Well, DC Comics think that's all well and good, and no doubt approved of the venture but would like to make sure that no one gets any ideas. Which is why they hae registered the trademark for Wonder Woman for the following lines… Cosmetics, namely[...]

DC Comics recently published Tales Of The Batman: Carmine Infantino collecting the stories that turned Batman away from his more campy side and in the direction of the Batman of today But are the choice of issues all they're cracked up to be? The solicitation reads, The "new look" Batman made his debut in 1964, and[...]

Probably not with a co-creator credit inside, Bob Kane's contract remains watertight after his death, but it's something… Because right now, all is not good with DC Comics and Finger's family…   It's a tale that most comic fans know well Bill Finger is the co-creator of Batman, alongside Bob Kane, with Jerry Robinson adding many of[...]

And, ironically, Harrods. That has so much more of a ring to it than, say, By The Power Of Greyskull, don't you think? An Adam West Brice Wayne there, in Green Hornet/Batman 66, published by DC Comics with Dynamite Entertainment. Two Amazing X-Men instalments today, the regular comic and the annual First Storm gets a geography lesson[...]

And who he actually is. From the House of El… the symbol that stands for… what is it again? That's right. Earth 2 is published today by DC Comics and courtesy of Orbital Comics, London Currently exhibiting the Elephantmen work of Shaky Kane, with prints for sale. From Watchmen… And from the film [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3lsJmwNO40[/youtube] And from today's Earth 2…   And furtehr reading, including a[...]

It will be out on June 25th, alongside X-O Manowar #26 IDW have a second print for Super Secret Crisis War #1. Superman #31, the Doomed crossover that they forget to mention was a Doomed crossover on the cover has, nevertheless, sold out at DC Comics and will get a second printing  now sold out at DC Entertainment[...]

It outsold some pretty big books from Marvel & DC Same goes for Southern Bastards #2 Tons of people scooping up more and more of these creator owned Image titles and we couldn't love it more Keep em' coming! Odd week for us? Aquaman in the top 10? Due to a Swamp Thing appearance Maybe? Also, the[...]

In the June issue of Comic Heroes, Grant Morrison expresses a wish to write a long run on The Flash. And, with the likes of All Star Superman and his

This was the original solicitation for from Nightwing #30 NIGHTWING #30 Written by JAMES TYNION IV Art by MEGHAN HETRICK Cover by EDDY BARROWS 1:25 MAD

But at least this gives us an idea of some of the big book collections on the way… Epic Collection  Captain America Lives Again Tales Of Suspense (1959) 58-96, Avengers (1963) 4, Strange Tales (1951) 114  Silver Surfer: When Calls Galactus Fantastic Four (1961) 48-50, 55, 57-60, 72, 74-77; Material From Tales To Astonish (1959) 92-93, Fantastic Four (1961) 56, 61,[...]

And he had four issues of good writers and that was his gimmick. +++++++ Q:  Had you ever received a $10,000 advance for one issue of a comic book before? A:  If memory serves, I had received more than that for Black Orchid, which was a three-issue series that I had done for DC in 1988[...]

 But don't worry we won't have to feel feelings for very long because the heroes have to make there way back to New York once the TVs start reporting the death of the Justice League. But one man kissing another, once enough to get banned by DC, is now not even worthy of comment by the blogosphere. It[...]

By Tim Hanley DC's overall percentage of female characters fell while Marvel's rose, but the difference wasn't enough to make up the gap between the companies and DC maintained the higher overall percentage for the fourth straight month.  We also look at DC's "Futures End" solicits, and stack them up against their past September events. DC COMICS DC[...]

 Effective June 25th, DC Comics staff members will no longer receive complimentary copies of the comics that DC publish, nor the collections. Instead, staff will be required to have ComiXology accounts and will receive free codes to download the work This change promises efficiency and an end to clutter in the offices as well as print[...]

From the first press release for Grant Morrison's Multiversity... Comprising seven complete adventures -- each set in a different parallel universe -- a

I was born in 1972. Just before that momentous occasion, DC co-publisher Dan DiDio was writing letters to The House of Secrets #99 (August 1972) aged twelve And he already appeared to be micro-managing…. Day After Doomsday was a fun series of two pages stories that played into DC's post apocalyptic future with Hercules and Atomic Knights[...]

But DC get half the top ten, with Image getting as many books as Marvel And a first appearance on the chart from an IDW book… Forever Evil #7 Amazing Spider-Man #2 Original Sin #2 Justice League #30 Batman Eternal #7 Saga #19 Futures End #3 JLA #14 East Of West #12 TMNT 30th Anniversary Thanks to the following retailers, Yesteryear Comics of San Diego,[...]

Lesbian vampires. It comes with the territory. TV Tropes tells us, She's got the raven-black hair, the tight leather bodice, the pale skin, and the fangs.

Boom. Sonic Boom. And do we have our Future New Teen Titans? Heretic, Klarion, Lagoon Boy... And is that Jesse Quick?

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool broke the story that DC Comics' longest standing executive, Bob Wayne, would be stepping down from the publisher when it moves from New York to Burbank. Reaction was swift, Bob Wayne and I started one week apart at DC back in '87 I know how tired I am now, and he's WAY older, so[...]

Bob Wayne joined the Sales department of DC Comics at San Diego Comic Con in 1987 Previous to that he ran a chain of comics and science fiction stores in Texas. At DC Comics he became a strong supporter of the direct market and his retail background endeared him to comic store managers who believed he knew[...]

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. In August, Charles Soule will be the credited writer on: The Death Of Wolverine #1-4 She-Hulk #7 Inhuman #5

But it's certainly a tease. Has Hickman's imagery of world's crashing into worlds been deliberately remniscent of DC's Crisis On Infinite Earths? He did just introduce an other-dimensional equivalent of the Justice League Is he taking the Marvel Universe to its own Crisis? Now DC Comics looks as if they are launching a new Crisis event for[...]

Futures End #4 shows us a future New York practicing full blown apartheid, between those from Earth One and those from Earth Two. And for some reason,

Once upon a time, in the eighties, under the John Byrne Superman revamp, Lex Luthor's computer systems worked out that Clark Kent was Superman. But Lex