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Aged about 9 or 10, we would with other kids, an informal group of geeks, voraciously read comicbooks ranging from our staples (Marvel and DC), to European fare like Tintin, Asterix and 2000 AD, Beano, Whizzer & Chips, Buster, Topper and loads more British publications I would even raid my sister Adama's stash of British[...]

A while ago, Bleeding Cool predicted that Marvel was getting rid of the 616 nomenclature for the Marvel Universe Created by Dave Thorpe/Alan Moore for Captain Britain, as a self-deprecatory joke, suggesting that the Marvel Universe was insignificant in the grander scheme of things, the term was popularised by Chris Claremont in the X-books[...]

TinyCo and Marvel's Avengers Academy mobile game has now added the Guardians of the Galaxy The Star-Lord lead team, reimagined as students, has escaped Ronan and crash-landed on Earth The new in-game event has the students investigating the teams arrival and unlocking new Guardians each week including Star-Lord, Gamora and Rocket Raccoon It will not[...]

In this clip from the next Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, a mysterious new Inhuman named Charles Hinton has a strange ability that affects those that touch him And someone is trying to get a message to Daisy Johnson before it's too late But is that message about Hive or something else? Marvel's Agents of SHIELD airs[...]

This is Marvel's final Dead No More image… featuring a number of people either revived from the dead or associated with people revived from the dead Including, of course, Peter Parker. By Dan Slott and Jim Cheug for Amazing Spider-Man. There's a better high res version here. …but aren't they missing one prominent missing figure from his past? That's better!   [...]

Highest charting Marvel U book is Daredevil at #4 Cap, Squirrel Girl and some X-Folk round out the rest. Saga and Daredevil were the only books I had customers express genuine excitement about reading Even if it was to see how much more Charles Soule could ruin their beloved character. Another good week for tp sales as[...]

Marvel Studios was filming Doctor Strange on the streets of Manhattan today Clearly they were close enough to the Empire State Building, because Benedict Cumberbatch found time to pop into JHU Comic Books And pose next to a copy of Doctor Strange: The Oath by Saga co-creator Brian Vaughan and Marcos Martin… What did I do[...]

Marvel has put together their top 10 costumes as ranked by their editorial and social media teams… and I have to say that I'm surprised by most of them on the list Iron Man is on the list, which is odd for a guy who seems to have a new set of armor every episode[...]

One of the major elements of the second season for Marvel's Daredevil is the relationship between Elektra Natchios (Elodie Yung) and Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) The two met in college, had a pretty wild romance that ended with Matt seeing her in a violent and dark way It caused the two to split In the[...]

How many April Fool's Jokes did you come across yesterday? Seems like just about everyone wanted to get into the action (us included), but one of the oddest ones may have come from Marvel.com They created a video of an action figure Deadpool dancing and shacking his backside, then they loop through it for 65[...]

These include items from Marvel, DC, Star Wars, Voltron, Court of the Dead and more. [youtube]https://youtu.be/7pyRkZEMAYk[/youtube] Didn't make it to Wondercon last weekend? Well, the folks at Sideshow Collectibles feel for you They were also pretty proud of their booth So for their fans that didn't get to visit it themselves, they've created a video booth[...]

Ask Marvel turns to Robbie Thompson, writer of Silk, Spidey and Venom: Space Knight to ask him some questions from the fans My favorite answer from him has to be his choice of Galactus as the character he'd like to switch places with for a day… mainly because the reason he gives for why[...]

Marvel's Essential Line are, basically, phone books Black and white reprints of Marvel Comics stories, hundreds of pages for not that much money, on newsprint paper. Well, Marvel are going to make them even cheaper for retailers, burning through the titles below at pennies on the dollar, and giving retailers a third Essential volume for every[...]

Marvel Comics has come under criticism of late from certain groups regarding their portrayal and description of a number of characters Specifically Hercules being described as straight by EIC Axel Alonso despite having been portrayed in that fashion classically and in Marvel continuity And Angela not being described as bisexual, choosing not to "label" her[...]

In this clip from the next Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, Ward (Brett Dalton) sits down with Gideon Malick (Powers Boothe) to discuss exactly what the Hydra leader is after and what Hive can do for him. Marvel's Agents of SHIELD airs Tuesdays at 9 PM on ABC. [youtube]https://youtu.be/mNldyj5Q4l4[/youtube] Seems that the former Grant Ward is now up[...]

Daredevil #8, out in June from Marvel looks like it's a very different comic to the one just solicited. Daredevil #8 was to be written by Charles Soule and drawn by Ron Garney, Losing a big case has landed A.D.A Matt Murdock in night court for the foreseeable future–meaning less time to clean up the streets as Daredevil. Luckily[...]

But then aspects from them seemed to start being reflected in the promotion for the big Marvel event and it was looking likelier and likelier – including the character deaths. One of the less spoilery aspects we mentioned was that the Inhuman character who could see the future, at the centre of the story, was called[...]

No one in the Prime Marvel Universe remembers the end of the world, the creation of the Battleworld and its recreation as the All-New All-Different Multiverse. Well most don't As The Ultimates pointed out, But some people do Miles Morales The Maker Probably Old Man Logan. But while most folk seem to have had their memories altered by[...]

On tonight's Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, we get to see what happens now that Lance Hunter and Bobbi Morse have been disavowed, but the preview scene we have here focuses on Jemma Simmons and the fact that she has had to be rescued multiple times and it has cost lives Melinda May tries to help[...]

A week ago, Bleeding Cool first ran the news that it looked like someone was making a Captain Britain TV show based on the British comic. It turned out

Marvel will be making a big push at local retailers for the launch of Civil War II #1 on June 1st The publisher has announced launch parties for the release that will feature special items exclusive to the parties at participating retailers Each retailer opting in to the event will receive a party kit with[...]

Disney and Marvel announced that if the bill was passed, they would no longer film movies in Atlanta The NFL said they would not award a Super Bowl to Atlanta if the bill passed The NCAA would no longer have any of the March Madness tournament in the state Hundreds of other companies like Time[...]

This is a Gendercrunching Special from Tim Hanley. On Saturday at WonderCon, DC Comics announced the creators behind their brand new line up of mainline

Marvel has released a list of the top ten Avengers according to fans on Marvel.com The list is rather interesting in both inclusion and exclusion So many heroes have been part of the team over the years, so to narrow it down to just 10 would be difficult And the results are somewhat interesting. Take a[...]

A sea of Marvel with two Bat-Islands. Batman was #1 by a long shot. With the hype of the Star Wars comics having settled its down to #3 on our list edged out by All Adjective Avengers. Stand off gave Avengers titles a bump All around not much to report Typical week with no surprises. Two bat-titles made our top ten[...]

The new season of Marvel's Daredevil features the introduction of The Punisher (Jon Bernthal) and Elektra (Elodie Yung) into the world of Daredevil (Charlie Cox) Both characters have been in Matt Murdock's world for a long time in the comics and the latest Marvel 101s focus on the relationships between Daredevil and Punisher (called Two[...]

In an on-line Q&A, Funko let it be know that there will be Pop! Vinyl figures for both Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) and Kilgrave (David Tennant). No

  See? Marvel does have it in for the X-Men…   See? Marvel does have it in for the X-Men…   See? Marvel does have it in for the X-Men…   See? Marvel does have it in for the X-Men…   See? Marvel does have it in for the X-Men… [...]

well, it is his birthday after all. TOP 25 ADVANCE REORDER COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS/TPs Publication Price Publisher GWENPOOL #1 $4.99 MAR CRIMINAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL ED (MR) $4.99 IMA CRIMINAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL DEADLY ED MAGAZINE SIZE (M $5.99 IMA SPIDER-MAN DEADPOOL #4 $3.99 MAR MOON KNIGHT #1 $4.99 MAR SPIDER-MAN DEADPOOL #3 MCGUINNESS 2ND PTG VAR $3.99 MAR HAUNTED MANSION #2 (OF 5) $3.99 MAR BATMAN TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES #5 (OF 6) $3.99 DC GWENPOOL #1 YOUNG VAR $4.99 MAR HAUNTED MANSION #1 (OF 5) GIST[...]

Bleeding Cool's reading of the runes has suggested that we may be seeing the return of Damon Hellstrom in a big way at Marvel, maybe in his own series But comic creator Brett Schwaner is seeing the return of another name not too far removes He writes, Reading the tea leaves of upcoming Marvel solicits yields unexpected horrors: Spotted making[...]