Marvel Comics Archives

What a weekend this was for BL and Henn! Our drinking duo attended The Great Lakes Comic Con this weekend, eating and drinking their way through Michigan.

Alex Saviuk is, in a word, fantastic. Joyous and a little grey, he is enthusiastic and warm to everyone who walks up to his table. And why shouldn't he

He adds that his goal for 2017 is to goad Trump into tweeting negatively about the magazine. Left off the list of potential Trump-related targets is Marvel Comics Chairman Ike Perlmutter, who has been frequently spotted with Trump, including traveling with the president on Air Force One, and serves as an advisor to his administration Mad[...]

For comic fans, seeing the head of Marvel Comics, Ike Perlmutter, donate heavily to Donald Trump's campaign along with his wife Laura Perlmutter Laura later became a member of his inauguration committee, and Ike went on to score a "significant" role in Trump's administration as an advisor on veterans' health care. On January 28th, 2017 there[...]

Donald Trump held his first press conference as President Elect today, and he named Marvel CEO Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter shortly after naming David Shulkin

In a recent issue of Civil War II, President Obama suggested that Tony Stark was going to run for President of the United States. And that the late Jim

I'm not sure if this cover is meant to be showing Tony Stark's own test for prostate cancer... But it is one of Marvel's variant covers with the American

The new Mockingbird comic written by Chelsea Cain has been described as a puzzle box of a comic. Which is the kind of thing that doesn't always suit a

It's not enough that they are launching a comic book... now Marvel Tsum Tsum are taking over twenty Marvel titles in August through a new variant cover

This year so far, 2016 is down 12% in terms of comcis sold and 4% down in total revenue. This really isn't good… TOP COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS RETAIL MARKET SHARE PUBLISHER SHARE MARVEL COMICS 42.98% DC ENTERTAINMENT 25.82% IMAGE COMICS 8.72% IDW PUBLISHING 4.41% DARK HORSE COMICS 3.07% BOOM! STUDIOS 2.39% DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 1.53% TITAN COMICS 1.10% VIZ MEDIA 0.97% ONI PRESS 0.87% OTHER NON-TOP 10 8.12% UNIT MARKET SHARE PUBLISHER SHARE MARVEL COMICS 47.87% DC ENTERTAINMENT 25.13% IMAGE COMICS 8.95% IDW PUBLISHING 3.67% BOOM! STUDIOS 2.45% DARK HORSE COMICS 2.42% DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 1.45% TITAN COMICS 1.09% VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT 1.03% ONI PRESS 0.63% OTHER NON-TOP 10 5.30% NEW[...]

We've recently seen Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev's Scarlet get back on track. But for Brilliant #6 and #7 with Mark Bagley? No such luck. Originally

The original poster found this hilarious, maybe not realising the Greek origins of the name. A press call is currently underway between Marvel Comics and approved media partners (Bleeding Cool has not been invited) During which it has been announced that the individual is called Ulysses. Worth mentioning that Ulysses is the Roman version of the Greek[...]

In a twist, the 'Women of Marvel' panel at C2E2 have revealed these rather interesting, bare chested, eye candy men variant covers, part of 'The Mighty

Marvel are publishing another free preview booklet for comic book stores, this time entitled Marvel New Stories/The Road To Civil War II. It will show off

Okay, so we gave David Gabriel a bit of a roughing up yesterday. Just a bit. So now how about a bit of balance? So DC Rebirth is coming. It appears that

Looks like another book has been extracted from the clutches of DC/Vertigo. As well as Image Comics publishing the DC/Helix sci-fi series Bloody Mary by

Christian Douglas writes, This upcoming weekend during the London Super Comic Convention, a small group of Spanish creators will be presenting the first

Willow Wilson Adrian Alphona Marvel Comics SuperMutant Magic Academy 24 Jillian Tamaki Jillian Tamaki Drawn & Quarterly Nimona 24 Noelle Stevenson Noelle Stevenson Harper Collins The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 23 Ryan North Erica Henderson Marvel Comics March: Book Two 21 John Robert Lewis, Andrew Aydin Nate Powell Top Shelf Killing and Dying 21 Adrian Tomine Adrian Tomine Drawn & Quarterly Bitch Planet 20 Kelly Sue DeConnick Valentine De Landro Image Comics The Wicked + The Divine 20 Kieron Gillen Jamie McKelvie Image Comics Paper Girls 20 Brian K[...]

Marvel won best series at Angouleme in France, which is one of the highest worldwide honors a comic can win. Translation: And now we have heard of Angouleme. David Gabriel: We also can't underestimate the importance of digital sales here. Translation: We just won't tell anyone what they are.   David Gabriel: We are working closely with Marvel TV and Disney to[...]

  Donald Trump shakes hands with Marvel Chairman Ike Perlmutter at a bill signing. Oh boy. Tonight, Donald Trump announced that Marvel Comics CEO Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter, dubbed the most powerful person in comic books by this very website, and his wife Laura Perlmutter donated over one million dollars to Trump's "Donald Trump For Veterans" event, held as counter[...]

I utterly adore Sanford Green's artwork. And incredibly versatile artist, his style twists and stretches to fit each project and you really have no idea

In August, we spoke about Ashley A Woods, the artist on Niobe: She Is Life from Stranger Comics written by Amandla Stenberg, and how Woods had been picked up for a Marvel Comics job as well. Issue 2 of the successful launch issue of Niobe, which sold out of its overprint and is going to a second[...]

A few changes 'twixt solicitation and publication. Not as many as DC Comics obviously, but they are rather busy right now. We mentioned creative changes

Thanks to Newsarama, Entertainment Weekly, Marvel.com, ComicBook, and CBR, a look ahead at some of Marvel's solicitations for April 2016, as pieced

Today, comic stores are receiving a bunch of Mavel ttitles a week earlier. But maybe not all that they ordered. Retailers have been told that of the

Recently Marvel attempted to register the word "Illuminati" for its comic book line. It's a name they have used in recent years and have just launched a

Thanks to ComicBook, Newsarama and CBR... more as they get released, Marvel solicitations for February 2016. Ms Marvel gets dropped from the Avengers

CBR has a preview of a number of stories from the Marvel parody comic book out next week. But I fancied highlighting two... The first by Jonathan Hickman

And clearly the highlight of the Marvel relaunch so far. Which, naturally means it will be cancelled in six issues. Well, Marvel Comics seem to want to actually do something about that By making sure that those who picked up the first issue have the best chance of picking up the second issue. Which's why they are pumping up[...]

Power would be cool but going to New York? That was the dream! The book also still works today with it's references to Star Wars and Spidey and I figure it's well worth picking up the collected trades if you want to break your kid in to Marvel Comics. Secret Wars Another great introduction to Marvel's superheroes[...]