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Our Favourite DC Comics Bombshells Cover For Batman And Ra's Al Ghul
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 Project To Bring Back The Pre-52?
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[...]
Ch-Ch-Changes: Scooby Doo Edition
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 DC Band-Aid – A Love Letter To DC Comics Fans
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[...]
Infinite Crisis Comic To Come With Digital Doomsday Code For The Game
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[...]
Dan DiDio Owes Dennis Barger Jr A Whole Dollar
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,[...]
DC Band-Aid To Be Made Up Of Forty Comics, Created In Advance
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[...]
Fourteen Of The Batman 75th Anniversary Variant Covers From DC Comics
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[...]
DC Comics' Two Month Band-Aid Project For 2015 Picks Up The Pace
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[...]
Bleeding Cool Bestseller List – 8th June 2014 – Eternally At The Top
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[...]
DC Comics Trademarks Across The Board For Wonder Woman Make Up
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[...]
Some Of The Tales Of The Batman: Carmine Infantino
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[...]
Bill Finger Gets His Cover Credit For Detective Comics #27 For Batman Day
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[...]