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Original Sin #1, out in April, is getting a push from Marvel for retailers to up their orders Big time. The Watcher, the mysterious space-god who's been watching us from the moon for as long as we can remember… is dead Thus begins the greatest murder mystery in Marvel Comics history. As Nick Fury leads the heroes of[...]

CBR has reported that Marvel has told them that Amazing Spider-Man #1 has had over half a million pre-orders from retailers. Marvel has informed CBR exclusively that April's "Amazing Spider-Man" #1 has passed 500,000 copies in initial retailer orders An exact number was not made available, and may change following next week's order cutoff. Bleeding Cool has[...]

From Evian, following on from Baby & Me... and ahead of the release of Amazing Spider-Man 2... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyV57QlGUGI Okay, it's

CB Cebulski, VP Senior Talent Manager for Marvel Comics, is have his Ultimate Marvel identity revealed in Ultimate Spider-Man #200 tomorrow. The Ultimate line usually gives us different versions of traditional Marvel characters, with some interesting twists Well, CB Cebulski, after his Pint O' CB panels at comic conventions is certainly quite a character Also he's[...]

Dark Horse Comics will finish publishing their Star Wars line of comic books, as Disney-owned Lucasfilm move the license to Disney-owned Marvel Comics. But on their way out, I understand Dark Horse plan to run some plot lines that will salt the fields before Marvel take over, permanently destroying a number of characters and concepts in[...]

I understand Marvel Comics, disappointed with sales on the Miracleman republishing project have decided to relaunch the book as an All-New Marvel NOW! title Which means a new issue 1 in July, just in time for the "birth" issue that caused such controversy on its initial publication. As to how they will get around the issues[...]

From Brian Bendis' Tumblr. Marvel and DC officially announce the return of THE AMALGAM UNIVERSE! For the first co-publishing venture in over a decade, Marvel and DC have come to an agreement to bring back The Amalgam Universe, a universe comprised of 'amalgam characters' of some of the most beloved superheroes of the two most exciting comic[...]

  These are the new USPS flat rate Spider-Man livery boxes... And this is the TV ad to match.  

What's a publisher to do? Marvel is reprinting Marvelman/Miracleman but some readers are familiar with different prints Take this scene from Miracleman #4, out this week. A few folk shouted foul: why had Big Ben replaced Garguanza? Was it down to the Fu Manchu reference? From the Miracleman 3D Special… But no, when Eclipse published the Miracleman[...]

And Slott and Ramos are happy to share… it will also have an unsolicited variant by Jerome Opena. It's not the only Marvel title welcoming a few friends Guardians Of The Galaxy #14 will; not just be drawn by Nick Bradshaw, but will invite along Gerardo Enrique Sandoval Perez and Phil Jimenez. What If Age Of Ultron #4 will[...]

Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! The end of Superior Spider-Man and the launch of Amazing Spider-Man continues to dominate the charts, as to plenty of Marvel's promotional incentives. But also of[...]

What is it with Hiroshima and Nagasaki having superheroic origins these days? Akira had the suggestion, and Maximortal kicked it off a while ago, but

So, yes, a couple of weeks ago I went to the Captain America: The Winter Soldier UK premiere, courtesy of Skype. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCuwR4NIBUs[/youtube] I got in a brief chat with the Winter Soldier himself, Sebastian Stan, as well as Mark Buckingham, now on the Marvel premiere list because of his upcoming new Miracleman work and a regular face[...]

At the end of the Pint O' CB Marvel panel today at ECCC, a number of folk asked if their favourite characters would be getting their own series at Marvel Including a woman cosplaying as Spider-Woman asking if Spider-Woman would get getting her own series? Marvel's CB Cebulski told the questioner that later that year, she'll[...]

At the Pint O' CB Marvel panel at ECCC, there was only one character on people's minds Initially at least. Elephant Steve, whose origin was in a  Mini-Marvels complaining about the elephant in the room "okay, I'll leave", he has now become a fan favourite character after repeat appearances. And with folk at the panel asking for[...]