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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![...]

Today is the last day comic book retailers can order the Free Comic Book Day titles distributed by Diamond Comic Distributors, for all participating comic book publishers apart from DC Comics who have yet to show their hand Free Comic Book Day 2025 will be held on the 3rd of May Those who wish to[...]

For Free Comic Book Day, Marvel Comics is publishing a Fantastic Four/Giant-Size X-Men #1, describing it thus; "on the eve of the birth of the All-New, All-Different X-Men, there is one extra mutant in attendance WHO is it? Only Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing can tell you!" Timeslide #1 by Steve Foxe and Ivan Fiorelli The recent[...]

Age ratings can be very important for comic book retailers on Free Comic Book Day Originally, back in the day, all Free Comic Book Day titles had to be suitable for all ages, given how many kids would storm into stores for their free comic books, grabbing fistfuls of whatever they could These days, the[...]

After debuting with 65,000 copies sold of their first entry in Epitaphs from the Abyss #1  not to mention a raft of imitators from Marvel and Boom), it's no surprise that Oni would be building an even bigger, more horrifying second act for EC's resurrection in 2025. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px[...]

It's my fifty-second birthday today, And as a special present, Bleeding Cool has been able to secure the full list of Free Comic Book Day titles being given away for the 3rd of May, 2025, through Diamond Comic Distributors There will also be a handful of other FCBD titles added later, including those from DC[...]

And in May, they will be showing a preview of the comic book for Free Comic Book Day Hysteria is the fourth album by Def Leppard, released in 1987 and took three years to record, including the aftermath of drummer Rick Allen's accident that cost him his left arm It is Def Leppard's best-selling album[...]

The new Conan event, Scourge Of The Serpent, kicks off on Free Comic Book Day, and Titan finally publishes Diablo comic books But that's in May, and for the rest of Titan Comics' February 2025 solicits and solicitations, we have Dave Dwonch and Travis Hymel's Loose End launching, #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width:[...]

Dynamite is giving the Gargoyles character Demona her own comic book and kicking it off in May with Free Comic Book Day, with Gargoyles: Demona #0 from Gargoyles creator Greg Weisman and artist Frank Paur Demona is an immortal gargoyle who was once a member of the Wyvern Clan, and one of the co-conspirators in[...]

But before that, you will get a taster on what is coming on the 3rd of May for Free Comic Book Day, the full listings of which Bleeding Cool also scooped earlier today. The notification page for the new series has also gone live at blackmirrorcomics.com Including the chance to be drawn into Black Mirror, the comic…   Twisted[...]

And being given away free on Free Comic Book Day, the 3rd of May, 2025. Diablo: Dawn Of Hatred by Cullen Bunn and Daniele Sera for Free Comic Book Day, the 3rd of May, 2025 Cover to be revealed.   Diablo is an action role-playing video game developed by Blizzard North and released by Blizzard Entertainment in 1997,[...]

The thirteen Free Comic Book Day 2025 titles have been announced, all the titles that comic book stores must order a minimum amount of to be officially Free Comic Book Day accredited stores With titles Archie Comics, Boom Studios, Dark Horse Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Image Comics, Mad Cave Studios, Marvel, Papercutz, Random House Children's Books,[...]

Bleeding Cool scooped the news back in September that IDW was pivoting to a new horror focus, and at New York Comic Con, they announced IDW Dark as an imprint for licenses for Smile, Event Horizon, Twilight Zone, 30 Days Of Night, Beneath The Trees, A Quiet Place and more. Now, they have announced a new[...]

Bleeding Cool ran the IDW Absolute Godzilla news this morning, and now we have Marvel's own Free Comic Book Day titles for Saturday, the 3rd of May, with Fantastic Four, X-Men, Amazing Spider-Man, Ultimate Universe, Ironheart, Marvel's Voices, Star Wars, Iron Man And His Awesome Friends, Spidey And His Amazing Friends This is a prelude to[...]

But starting on the 3rd of May for Free Comic Book Day, with a Godzilla reboot comic book, Godzilla: The New Heroes by Tim Seeley, Nikola Čižmešija, Ethan S Parker & Griffin Sheridan, Pablo Tunica, Chris Gooch, and Oliver Ono A series of interlinked, shared universe, comic books in a similar fashion that Image and[...]

Image Comics has dropped news on the first Free Comic Book Day titles for May 2025 as part of Image Comics' February 2025 solicits and solicitations An Energon Universe FCBD 2025 Special from Joshua Williamson, Robert Kirkman, Daniel Warren Johnson, Andrea Milana, Conor Hughes, I Hate Fairyland: Once Upon A Time FCBD Special by Skottie Young, Transformers: Worst Bot Ever FCBD[...]

When Free Comic Book Day comes along, some publishers push them out as digital editions immediately Some wait Some never push them out at all Well, two months after FCBD 2024, the first chapter issue of Anthony Del Col and Stefan Tosheff's forthcoming graphic novel Romeo Vs Juliet : A Kill Shakespeare Adventure, on sale on the[...]

Flying Colors Comics is closing one of its Californian locations this year, the original store in Concord co-owned by Joe Field, the man who first proposed Free Comic Book Day This marks the closure of the inaugural home of FCBD, as Field is looking to a new location for the longstanding comic book store Joe[...]

Free Comic Book Day has been a nightmare to deal with these last couple of years, from the nightmares of 2020 through the sluggish years of 2021, 2022, and 2023 At least at the store I run, Comics and Friends in Mentor, OH, we have seen decreasing interest these last three years, with many failing[...]

But all of that is subject to change as conditions on the ground shift in real time." The new line starts today with Free Comic Book Day and the Blood Hunt/X-Men issue from Marvel Brevoort says "Not only does it contain a completely new BLOOD HUNT story by Jed MacKay and Sara Pichelli, but it also features my team's very[...]

But first, he has to make a deal with Amanda Waller. Or at least start a negotiation in that direction. As those who have picked up Absolute Power on Free Comic Book Day (or read it on Amazon when it went live at midnight in your respective territory) you will know that a deal has been done. That[...]

Free Comic Book Day is well and truly with us I just cycled into London on a beautiful sunny day to pick up what I could Consider this part one as I take a break for lunch on Poland Street at Bodeans, where I am typing this right now Central London is down to just[...]

Jared Padalecki's birthday topped the traffic at Bleeding Cool yesterday, but it's Free Comic Book Day today! Where you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign up to receive[...]

This Saturday, the 4th of May, 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 and thirty-five stores doing a little bit more as well Including personal appearances including the likes of Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, Scott[...]

Battle Quest Comics' Free Comic Book Day one-shot Steel Siege: Search and Rescue, came to comic stores differently that the other fifty-ish official titles Co-written by Battle Quest publisher Andrew Kafoury and Justin Zimmerman, with art by Sid Ven Blu, Sean Hill and Jeremy Colwell, where stores usually have to pay around 20-25 cents a copy for the free comic[...]

Bleeding Cool has been running a few select spoilers ahead of tomorrow's Free Comic Book Day And now, on the eve of it all going public, here's a place to put a few of them together so that you don't have to go searching all around the place Or actually pick up the comic books,[...]

This has enabled collectors to gauge an independent grade and enabled them to sell and buy long distance without having to get up and personal with the grade themselves. #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 gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ This year, CGC is sponsoring Free[...]

… I'd have two nickels, but it's weird that it's happened twice right? Tomorrow sees a Free Comic Book Day edition of Dana Simpson's Unicorn Crush from Andrews McMeel, and also Unico Awakening, an adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's original manga by Samuel Sattin and Marvel Comics' Gurihiru, published by Scholastic Graphix And Bleeding Cool has[...]

Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day, which is when this new manga-esque Popeye will be unveiled for the first time And Bleeding Cool has a preview… You can catch up with all of Bleeding Cool's Free Comic Book Day coverage and spoilerage with this handy dandy tag, #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img[...]

Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day And Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz, Hannah Klein, and Lisa Sterle have a graphic novel to preview, Dying Inside, from Vault Comics And Bleeding Cool has a preview of that preview… You can catch up with all of Bleeding Cool's Free Comic Book Day coverage and spoilerage with this handy[...]