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Diesel DC Boxer Shorts Licence Is Hilarious
So what do you do if you want to wear superhero underwear but don't want it to look all kiddy? Is there an equivalent of the adult covers for Harry Potter books? There is now, courtesy of Diesel and DC But they can't get away with just doing the underwear, however fancy, no, there has to[...]
Thursday Runaround – Promotions And Demotions
"But art was still in my heart."" MarketingWatch: The Dork Review shows how DC used to shill their characters and comic book serviced to corporate clients in the seventies Not too much has changed Comics Alliance gives a little context; "The DC Comics of the ancient world's focus on younger readers seems quaint today, with the publisher's[...]
Could Retailers Save Money Ordering The DC New 52 Hardcover From Amazon?
And big." The New 52 DCU compilation hardcover featuring all 52 of September's first issues plus extra gubbins ships in a couple of weeks. But here's the thing It's currently on sale at Amazon.com for $90, as opposed to the $150 retail price That's a whopping 40% discount. Now normally retailers will get a larger discount than[...]
Four Thoughts About Four DC Comics On Fifth Week
DC really have to do something about this fifth week thing By scheduling all of the New 52 to the first four weeks of the month, when there are five weeks in a month, things are really lacking The next time this happens is in February, and DC seem to have shifted more of the[...]
Speculator Corner: Bottoming Out On The DCU New 52
When DC took the reins of the top slot on the sales charts for the first time in years due to the launch of the New 52, they also took over the back issue market, with sellouts across the board causing a massive rise in prices across the line How are those prices holding up[...]
Where In The World Is Coast City?
The DC Universe is a mix of fictional and real places You have Metropolis and Gotham, you also have New York And various cartographers have tried to make sense of it all But the opening page of I, Vampire may have thrown an interesting temporal spanner into the work You see we have Boston on[...]
Vox Populi – Alan Moore Talks Anonymous, Occupy And The V For Vendetta Mask
Initially given away free by DC Comics, it is now sold by Warner Brothers for $10 a pop. Lloyd has been quite vocal in his delight of the appropriation of the image But now, in today's Observer newspaper, Alan Moore speaks out, talking to Tom Lamont. "I suppose when I was writing V for Vendetta I would in[...]
The Justice League Comic With Over Five Million Copies In Print
Justice League #1 was the sales highlight of the New DCU with copies sold getting closer and closer to that half million spot. But what if there was a Justice League book with over five million copies out there? Comic book writer Doug Wagner has been profiled by his local paper, the Park Record And in doing[...]
Bleeding Cool's Ultimate Black Friday Comic Stores List
It's Black Friday time! So which store and/or website will you be lining up outside? Mondo has its first DC Comics print, painted by JC Richard Fortress of Solitude (above) will cost $50 and will be available… at some point. Crush Comics of Castro Valley, California is having a sale No idea what, yet. Chapel Hill Comics of[...]
DC Recalls And Reprints Showcase Presents: Ghosts Over This Missing Page
Last week, DC Comics published Showcase Presents: Ghosts, a collection of stories from their seventies comic Ghosts: True Tales of the Weird and Supernatural. Most of it anyway. It turns out all copies were missing a page. As a result, DC Comics will reprint the entire print run and will send retailers replacement copies Until then, retailers are[...]
DC Comics To Make Wayne Casino Chips Available In Comic Stores
Debuting at San Diego Comic Con, each day you were able to pick up from the DC Comics booth a free fake casino chip, tied into Wayne Casinos, as seen in the Flashpoint Batman title The Preview Night chip was pretty rare in comparision, but the big one was the $100 black chip, given away[...]