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Last week, in an article about San Diego Comic-Con, we mentioned that Marvel Comics gave out rare variant covers of Silver Surfer Black #2, featuring Carnage riding the Surfer's board And pointed out how much they were going for on eBay, up to $180. We also mentioned that we had heard from retailer discussion in the[...]

The Infinity Warps are mashups of two Marvel characters, created in order to produce extra tie-in issues for the Infinity Countdown/Infinity Wars super-mega-crossover event But when the event ended, Marvel decided to keep the ol' Warps around in case they needed them in the future, and with a little Soul Stone shenanigans, the Infinity Warps[...]

Maybe he's a fan. See more when Death's Head #1 hits stores on Wednesday. DEATHS HEAD #1 (OF 4) MAY190748 (W) Tini Howard (A) Kei Zama (CA) Nick Roche Rising stars Tini Howard & Kei Zama take on Marvel UK's hottest character, Death's Head, in a new miniseries! When a job goes wrong, intergalactic mech merc Death's Head wakes up[...]

They say you can't go home again, but Conan the Barbarian has never really been one for doing what he's told. So in Conan the Barbarian #8, Conan heads

San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) 2019 was definitely the year for television – and Marvel Studios was no exception Not that they didn't have some major film news to drop on all of us (and you can catch up on all of that by checking out Bleeding Cool Editor-in-Chief Kaitlyn Booth's live-blog of the presentation), but[...]

The marriage of Ben Grimm and Alicia Masters was an epic event for comics, mostly because it's one of the few advertised marriages recently that actually

Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #9 explores the secret history of… Spider-Man's neighbor, Marnie? Well, it turns out Marnie is an old superhero called The Rumor, and in this preview, we get to see her history and how it ties in with one of the most famous origins at Marvel: Captain America's It seems that Marnie was[...]

But could Carol Danvers also be a secret Grammar Nazi? In this preview of Marvel Team-Up #4, Carol arrives on the scene of a Damage Control warehouse with a correction about proper abbreviations… More importantly, though, there's a matter of technology being stolen from these warehouses, and though Ms Marvel was supposed to watch the warehouse[...]

In the pages of Runaways, Doombot has been having a rough time lately. Decimated by Gib, in order to get him working again, Chase had to remove the

As Marvel enters Phase 4 of their cinematic universe, different rumors have been passed around about the next big "thing" for our silver screen hopefuls, and our current favorites are none other than the illustrious Eternals.  Now that we have confirmation of the release from Marvel Studios' Hall H panel, and news that the movie[...]

In October, Marvel will launch a new ongoing comic book starring Mary Jane Watson, The Amazing Mary Jane, by Leah Williams and Carlos Gomez And in case anyone was worried Marvel wasn't fully behind the book, never fear: the company is showing it means business in the best way it knows how… by releasing a[...]

The story, originally ostensibly in continuity though seeming less so considering the major changes made to Wolverine's history, including getting a bunch of X-Men killed in the 90s and having a daughter (with a woman he met as a child – yuck), not to mention the fact that the stories play out in real time,[...]

Marvel has released a lettered preview of Powers of X #1, the 6-issue series running alongside House of X as part of Jonathan Hickman's line-wide X-Men relaunch, designed to bring the X-Men back to their rightful place of prominence House of X appeared to be a success, at least in getting people talking about the[...]

Marvel seems to be gearing up for a big push for Ghost Rider(s) with the new Ghost Rider series launching in October, starring Johnny Blaze and Danny Ketch But in the pages of Avengers, Robbie Reyes is still the main Ghost Rider, though his ride appears to be giving him a bit of trouble as[...]

Hulu continues breaking news at today's Television Critics Association (TCA) press event, confirming that the third season of Marvel's Runaways is set to premiere on Friday, December 13 Created for the streaming service by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, the series also saw its first teaser trailer released – brief, but with one helluva' cliffhanger[...]

Normally, we rely on our friends and loved ones to plan our birthday celebrations, but Marvel Comics is taking matters into their own hands, sending out a press release announcing that they will plan their own birthday party on August 31st That's the same week that Marvel Comics #1000 hits stores, but it was August[...]

October's Champions #10 will be the final issue of the series starring a team of Marvel's teenage superheroes, writer Jim Zub revealed on his blog Thursday Zub said that the book "didn't click the way we hoped" and that his "long-term plans for the series have been cut short." Once the October solicits arrived online, I[...]

Legendary rocker David Bowie gave a posthumous thumbs up to global entertainment superstar Donny Cates, sometimes known as "The David Bowie of Comics,"

October's Black Panther is being billed as "the end of an era for the Black Panther" in Marvel's October solicitations But what does it mean? Is the series ending? Is it getting a new creative team? Or just a new status quo for the character? And if it is a new status quo, does that[...]

In 1981, the Marvel Preview magazine changed titles to Bizarre Adventures, featuring Marvel characters in more adult stories thanks to the magazine format's technical avoidance of the Comics Code Bizarre Adventures ran for just 10 issues, but in October, it will return as a Marvel 80th-Anniversary one-shot, featuring creators including Becky Cloonan, Jed McKay, Chris[...]

Tomorrow's House of X may settle important matters of omega mutants in the X-Men Universe, but BOOM! Studios has gotten ahead of everything by revealing a

As we await to discover all of Marvel Comics' solicitations for October 2019, here's a Frankensteining of all the announcements we can find and so far… it's been a busy week for this sort of thing. And this is going to figure rather prominently too…   X-MEN #1 Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN Penciled by LEINIL FRANCIS YU Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU A NEW ERA[...]

Some people… Tony Stark: Iron Man #14 hits stores tomorrow. TONY STARK IRON MAN #14 MAY190738 (W) Dan Slott, Jim Zub (A) Valerio Schiti (CA) In-Hyuk Lee "THE ONE-STEP PROGRAM"-When Iron Man tells Captain Marvel that he can't be her sponsor because he may or may not have fallen off the wagon, Carol doesn't it take it well[...]

While Marvel Studios may have burst a ton of eyeballs this past weekend with a slate of television and movie news that no one was expecting, the one show in particular that we've become fast fans of coming out of this year's San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) is animated anthology series What If…? We've been fans[...]

Years ago I was writing a book about Marvel and was told by the editor to stop mentioning the named of the characters' creators because nobody cared… Only this week I saw a post about a girl at Comic Con who was dressed as Elektra but had never heard of Frank Miller… I commented that[...]

Okay, so this is where Absolute Carnage really begins, after all those teases, reveals and foreshadowing across the Marvel Universe in recent months Venom: Funeral Pyre #1, out tomorrow And not to be confused with Venom: funeral Pyre from the nineties that pitted Venom against Punisher I mean, for a start, this comic doesn't have[...]

Which says more about their own identity politics than anyone else. Well, Marvel Comics seems to have decided to be hung for a sheep, as for a lamb, and are publishing Fearless #1 tomorrow, a declaredly feminist comic book, with plenty of women creators, with female characters in the focus, and inspirational empowering messages throughout And[...]

They've started a publisher together, and they have created some of their most memorable work with the same artist, Alex Ross, namely Kingdom Come and Marvels. Tomorrow sees two books that both go back to that well, telling stories of superheroes out of time, taking other people's work, gathered through extensive research, putting them through different[...]

Tomorrow sees the launch of two new comic books from Marvel, both featuring wielders of magic swords The first, on the nose, is Sword-Master #1, featuring reprinted, translated comics from Marvel's operations in China as well as a new story introducing the character to the Marvel Universe – especially, Shang-Chi, Master Of Kung Fu, who[...]

Dammit! One last time, for old time's sake, before the relaunch… Sworn to sell comics for Marvel executives who feared and hated the fact that Fox owned their movie rights, The Uncanny X-Men suffered great indignities, but with a corporate merger on the way, the X-Men can finally get back to doing what they do best: being objectively the best franchise[...]