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Today the 3rd of May 2025, is Free Comic Book Day And while thousands of comic book stores, bookstores, libraries and more will be giving away free comic books, here are sicty four stores doing a little bit more as well Including personal appearances by the likes of Deniz Camp, Joseph Michel Linsner, Terry Austin,[...]

Tomorrow, Saturday, the 3rd of May 2025, is Free Comic Book Day And while thousands of comic book stores, bookstores, libraries and more will be giving away free comic books, there are a hundred stores doing a little bit more as well We ran 36 of them yesterday; here's another 28 Catch up with all of[...]

This Saturday, the 3rd of May 2025, is Free Comic Book Day And while thousands of comic book stores, bookstores, libraries and more will be giving away free comic books, here are a hundred stores doing a little bit more as well Including personal appearances by the likes of Deniz Camp, Joseph Michel Linsner, Terry[...]

Bleeding Cool recently ran a spoilery piece for Free Comic Book Day as far as the DC Absolute Universe is concerned And mentioned that DC Comics loves a blackboard A whiteboard A chalkboard Usually with Rip Hunter behind the chalk, behind the pen, jotting down notes from the future But this time, for Free Comic[...]

Courtesy of Dynamite Entertainment, Disney and Marvel Comics, we are going to get a Fantastic Four/Gargoyles crossover in October 2025, featuring Marvel's first family following the new movie, and the Gargoyles from Saturday morning., with a comic book written by Gargoyles' creator Greg Weisman, and the original Marvel Comics Gaorgoyles era creators, artist George Kambadais,[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors, now owned by Alliance Entertainment, has added a new title to their Free Comic Book Day lineup for Saturday, the 3rd of May, just as a number of publishers have chosen to withdraw their titles, either from Diamond or from the whole event.  Comic book retailers will be receiving, for free rather[...]

And here are a few of the things, in visual or text form, that they may suggest… and ask. What happened to the Absolute Universe in January 1944? What is the temple of the Fourth World? Who really controls Lazarus? Black Stars… John Stewart knew the weakness? What is Doctor Fate's helmet doing in the DC Universe? Despair-O? Who/what is the White[...]

The Absolute Version is still trying to put all the pieces together… but that may explain the shattered pieces of glass on the cover of the upcoming Free Comic Book Day title Say, is there any chance that Grant Morrison is going to be writing the character for DC Comics again, going forward? You do[...]

Ultimate Spider-Man: Incursion #1 is published by Marvel Comics on the 4th of June, but there will be a sneak peek and preview of that on Saturday, the 3rd of May for Free Comic Book Day with the Amazing Spider-Man/Ultimate Universe #1 giveaway And now we have a sneak peek at that It's like a[...]

That Free Comic Book Day in May promised the first event of the new Ultimate Universe, and then we confirmed it all with the first visual out of ComicsPRO from Deniz Camp, Cody Zighlar and Jonas Scharf. Subsequently, Marvel Comics then released an official press release saying "Paying off seeds planted by Ultimate Universe architect Jonathan Hickman at the very beginning[...]

This means we have a perfect reference for every angle, keeping the visuals sharp and consistent while staying true to the world of the episode." The first glimpse of the adaptations will be on Free Comic Book Day, during which the Black Mirror episode will show off its inks and pencils Twisted Comics also has a[...]

Bad Idea claims a near-million copy print run for Planet Death #0 launched ahead of Free Comic Book Day, claiming it as the "largest selling independent comic book since 1992" and the launches of Youngblood, Spawn and WildCATS, Turok, Darker Image, Deathblow, Deathmate and the like from that year I guess it is ignoring non-comic[...]

Spoilers for Amazing Spider-Man #1 out this Wednesday and for the Fantastic Four/X-Men Free Comic Book Day issue next month, but that has been leaking out Be warned… because Amazing Spider-Man is about to launch with a new issue entirely missing Mary Jane Watson – she's a bit busy over in All-New Venom as a[...]

Spoilers for this…as well as for Free Comic Book Day You have been warned.   To the left of each panel sat in that audience are two masked superheroic figures A man with a Wolverine cowl on but a full face mask And a woman with an eye mask Who are these people? Well, I am reliably[...]

Comic book publisher TokyoPop has cancelled their Free Comic Book Day offering for 2025, Disney's Stitch: Best Food Forever by Tom Mason and Nao Kodaka This follows Fantagraphics cancelling Lost Marvels, and Mad Cave cancelling Princess Gwenevere & King Arthur Crossover #1, Phineas And Ferb #1, Flash Gordon Adventures #1 and Herobear And The Kid[...]

Bleeding Cool got the word that the following four titles from Mad Cave Studios and its two imprints, Maverick and Papercutz, have been cancelled from Free Comic Book Day, out of the six comic books it was offering. This comes after Fantagraphics also pulled its Lost Marvels Free Comic Book Day title in the wake of Free[...]

British comic book publisher Neil Gibson's Twisted Comics has the comic book license to the Netflix television show Black Mirror created by Charlie Brooker, and will be launching on Free Comic Book Day with a preview of their adaptation of the award-winning episode San Junipero And now we have the cover to the comic book[...]

Free Comic Book Day is still happening on the 3rd of May this year, apparently, even in the wake of Free Comic Book Day owner Diamond Comic Distributors' declaration of Chapter 11 bankruptcy at the beginning of the year You can follow Bleeding Cool's in-depth coverage of the story here As well as the free[...]

For Free Comic Book Day 2025, Fantagraphics stated that they would be publishing a licensed title from Marvel Comics, Lost Marvels, previewing their new line of comics with content that Marvel might not be as interested in reprinting but Fantagraphics really are With Howard Chaykin, Neal Adams and Barry Windsor Smith in their first two[...]

Spinning out of their Free Comic Book Day Gargoyles: Demona title, Dynamite will be launching a new Demona series in May, written by Gargoyles creator Greg Weisman and drawn by his co-showrunner Frank Paur The book runs from the year 998 to 1998, with Demona's quest for vengeance against Canmore across the millenia And it will[...]

For Free Comic Book Day, on Saturday the 3rd of May, we will be getting a Fantastic Four/X-Men title from Marvel Comics With a "Giant-Size X-Men" story by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing and Iban Coello. I can now confirm that we will be getting a Giant-Size X-Men series launching from Marvel four weeks later with Giant-Size X-Men #1[...]

Mark Spears has been talking about the challenges for the Free Comic Book Day edition of Monsters from his publishers at Keenspot He tells the post-Megacon Industry Of Comics video podcast. "I just heard yesterday that because they're printed through a different printer, something happened…  they guaranteed so many pages… they came back to Keenspot, they[...]

Including the rights to the established Free Comic Book Day… Diamond logo Diamond Comic Distributors- Division of Debtor Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc., that distributes comic books, graphic novels, toys, games, and other pop culture-related merchandise. Diamond Book Distributors – Division of Debtor Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc., that distributes English-language graphic novels, manga, games, and merchandise. Alliance Game Distributors –[...]

Over the weekend, Bleeding Cool pointed out that Udon Studios was having its Free Comic Book Day titles handled by Lunar Distribution in bundles, but also individually as single issues by Diamond Comic Distributors That has now changed Udon Entertainment confirms that unlike some publishers, they have had a call back from Lunar, and have[...]

When the Free Comic Book Day titles for 2025 were first reported, some of the books had "placement" covers while they worked out exactly what they were going to be And then Vault Comics also added Post Malone's Big Rig But here are the titles that now have updated covers… #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top:[...]

Vault Comics has added a new Free Comic Book Day title to the line-up this year A preview of a graphic novel Big Rig by Post Malone, Adrian Wassel and Nathan Gooden for Free Comic Book Day 2025.  "Evil Dead meets Mad Max: Fury Road in this story set in medieval Europe, where the only thing[...]

Free Comic Book Day Under Diamond was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool again yesterday Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround for the most-read stories the day before – as well as over the past six years Founded sixteen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip a further[...]

Free Comic Book Day is owned and run by Diamond Comic Distributors The company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and has seen a number of publishers pull out of Diamond completely as a result With tariffs threatened on comics published in Canada – which is most of the Free Comic Book Day titles[...]

We got a look at DC Comics' plans for Free Comic Book Day 2025 earlier, now DC Comics have revealed the rest, both in print and for digital And also what Jeff Lemire was hinting at last week… #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see[...]

But look for a key appearance from Paul on Free Comic Book Day—may it be all that you dreamed."   FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2025: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN/ULTIMATE UNIVERSE #1 Written by Joe Kelly, Deniz Camp & Cody Ziglar Art by John Romita Jr & Jonas Scharf Joe Kelly and John Romita Jr remind us who Peter Parker and SPIDER-MAN are![...]