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Exclusive Designs For New Doom Game, From Dark Horse's Art Of Doom Hardcover
The book also features an exclusive look at the development of the relentless demons of hell, devastating, over-the-top weapons, as well as the iconic DOOM marine– all accompanied by commentary from the developers themselves The Art of DOOM is indispensible for fans of video games, visceral first-person shooter combat, and pulse-pounding action! This is the companion[...]
Retailers Get Exclusive Covers As The Wait For C-3PO's Red Arm Backstory Extends
And now it has been delayed to the very end of March. But that has given Marvel the opportunity to offer retailers something extra for the Star Wars: C3PO #1 special. A retailer exclusive variant edition You know the drill, order 3000 of an exclusive edition, maybe a 1500 black-and-whote version too, pay the artist fee and[...]
Exclusive Comics For In-Store Convention Kick-Off Already Allocated To Stores
The In-Store Convention Kick-Off on March 5th will see a number of stores running streaming live video presentations from creators and publishers to comic book stores across North America. They currently include Matt Fraction, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Marguerite Bennet, Scottie Young, Matt Hawkins and Stjepan Šejić. Alongside the event, participating stores will also be selling a number[...]
Cover Stories: Dark Designs, Fried Pies And Portland Prettiness
Can you read a book by its cover? These people hope so! The new cover for the upcoming novel Captain America: Dark Designs by Stefan Petrucha from Marvel Comics. Here are the retailer exclusive Fried Pie covers for Spider-Man #1 by Khoi Pham… …and Deadpool & The Mercs For Money #1 by Reilly Brown. An exclusive show variant cover for Doctor Who:[...]
The Very First Retailer Exclusive Covers From DC Comics For Dark Knight III
Since then a number of publishers have made retailer exclusive variants of their covers available, in which a retailer will order many more copies of a comic than they would generally order Sometimes hundreds, sometimes thousands And they will get a cover of their very own, exclusive to that store Either an original piece of[...]
LucasFilm Pulls Adi Granov's Exclusive Cover For Marvel's Star Wars: Shattered Empire
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched. Equally, don't post a retailer exclusive cover for Star Wars until it has been signed off by LucasFilm. Such as this cover for Legacy Comics by Adi Granov. Now pulled off their website And purchasers told, Unfortunately Lucasfilm did not approve of our Star Wars Shattered Empire #1 Legacy Edition Variant[...]
Four Color Grails Closes Its Doors
Four Color Grails was a monthly exclusive variant cover subscription box, only containing exclusive variant covers, and at a far lower circulation than, say, Loot Crate And for $27 a month plus shipping, less for a longer subscription, that was very competitively priced against many other retailers prices for such books Indeed, just one could be flipped[...]
53 Exclusive Comic Books And Covers At San Diego Comic Con 2015 (UPDATE)
but here's a look at all the San Diego Comic Con Exclusive comics we can find… so far. The Stan Lee Stuff exclusive covers for Renew Your Vows #2, exclusively for San Diego Comic Con, $50 for the pair, is available for pre-sale. Slayer Exclusive Metal Comic Cover This is the real deal Not a foil stamped cover,[...]
23 Retailer Exclusive Covers To Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War
From Francesco Francavilla reprising his Silver Surfer poster, to Neal Adams revisiting the seventies, Here are almost all of IDW's exclusive retailer variant covers to Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War – 23 of them, all exclusive to individual retailers around the world, as well as comic conventions by Boston Con and subscription boxes like Comic[...]
Marvel And Oni Up Their SDCC Exclusive Comic Print Runs
We reported recently on a bunch of comic books exclusive to San Diego Comic Con this year coming through Diamond Comic Distributors. Well, the numbers, it appears, are not enough. Marvel's Civil War #1 Minimates Variant and their Secret Wars #4 Minimates variants see their numbers bumped from 5000 to 6000, and the Star Wars: Lando #1[...]
Why Variant Covers Matter
Not speculators." And later he adds: Variants for trade paperbacks is no different than variants for comics, isn't it? Why cancel exclusive program and create another? Does Image get a bigger flat fee for trade paperback sales? I initially applauded Image for their decision to get rid of the exclusives but they haven't really done so have[...]
Image Scraps Retailer Exclusive Comics, For Exclusive TPBs, Because Of Speculation
Bleeding Cool learnt today that Image Comics will be announcing that they will no longer offer "retailer exclusive" variant single comics It was a promotional program started by IDW for the launch of their Godzilla comic, then adopted by everyone from Boom to Avatar to Marvel to Titan to DC, where retailers could commission their own exclusive cover[...]
Cover Variance: ECCC, C2E2, Wondercon Exclusives And More Besides
We'll get to the conventions exclusives in a minute… But first, Doctor Who: Ninth Doctor #1 American Dream Comics variant cover by Brian Williamson and Luis Guerrero and the Pop Culture Paradise variant cover by Mariano Laclaustra. A couple more Christopher Action Figure variant covers for Secret Wars spinoffs… This is the part-finished Deadpool #250 Phantom Variant available to Phantom-affiliated stores, again[...]
Dale Keown And Humberto Ramos Take Star Wars #1 Covers To 57
An exclusive cover for Mile High Comics… And for Third Eye Comics… Takes us to 57 covers in total So far Will we make it to a hundred? Adding to the big list… An exclusive cover for Mile High Comics… And for Third Eye Comics… Takes us to 57 covers in total[...]
Titan's Exclusive Doctor Who Vinyls Line Up For New York Comic Con At Booth 2142
And they have the vinyls… And they're bringing these exclusive Doctor Who vinyls to New York Comic Con, at booth # 2142… Doctor Who TITAN: 8" Trenzalore TARDIS Figure   When the Doctor travelled to Trenzalore to visit his tomb he found his grave was marked by, what else, his beloved TARDIS Only, after years of decay it had[...]
The Jetpack/Forbidden Planet Exclusive Cover For Launch Of The Wicked + The Divine
Not long now. The Jamie McKelvie exclusive cover for the upcoming launch of The Wicked + The Divine shared by Forbidden Planet in the UK and Jetpack Comics in the US… Both Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie will be launching the comic with a signing a Forbodden Planet London on Wednesday 18th June at 6pm. It's interesting to see the[...]
Cover Variance: Labbits Come To Marvel, Via Hastings
Hastings, the largest direct market comic book store chain in the world, has announced a new run of exclusive covers, in a deal with Marvel and Kidrobot They begin with Superior Spider-Man and feature the Marvel range of Labbit vinyl toys, the first featuring Venom They will continue to Captain America, Wolverine and more, six[...]
Marvel To Do Exclusive Cover Series For All 16 Wizard World Shows in 2014
Each VIP will receive an exclusive variant cover of a Marvel comic The first two covers will debut in Portland (Jan 24-26) and New Orleans (Feb 7-9). Comic's legend Neal Adams will be doing the first two covers Miracleman #1 with the Adams cover will be given out in Portland New Orleans will get their Adams[...]
One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others – Mars Attacks, Judge Dredd, Stan Lee
Kirkbride Sunday November 3rd  12:00 – 1:00 Transformers – Livio Ramondelli, Mairghread Scott 1:00 – 2:00 My Little Pony – Tony Fleecs 5:00 – 6:00  Godzilla: Rulers of Earth – Chris Mowry But the thing that caught my eye was the exclusive cover they will have at their booth Mars Attacks Judge Dredd #3 with a special John McCrea[...]