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DC's decision to make the first three month's of their DC Rebirth titles starting in June is likely to see their marketshare increase dramatically for those months. But Marvel look set to deny them the top spots for that month. Marvel are launching exclusive retailer variant covers for both Civil War II #1 and Han Solo #1. Where[...]

Artist Michael Cho has been tapped to produce variant covers and lithographs for each of the issue of Marvel's upcoming event series Civil War II Each of the seven images will feature two Marvel heroes set to go toe-to-toe in classic boxing promo flier style. "If anyone proves that 'less is more,' it's Michael Cho," says Marvel[...]

Mike Colter was on the red carpet for the Captain America: Civil War premiere last night and was asked about his upcoming Netflix series Marvel's Luke Cage The actors tells us that it's a fugitive's story and about a man wrongly convicted of a crime He describes Luke Cage as a work in progress And[...]

Since we're on a streak of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD stories, let me throw i one more Clark Gregg visited with Jimmy Kimmel last night just prior to heading over to the premiere of Captain America: Civil War He was asked if this film would effect the tv show as dramatically as The Winter Soldier[...]

By Tim Hanley Both DC and Marvel's overall percentage of female creators fell in February, with DC taking the bigger tumble and Marvel posting the higher percentage of the two We also take a look at writers at the Big Two and which characters they're writing. DC COMICS After a solid start to the year in January, DC[...]

Time to read the Amazon tea leaves for Marvel Comics again… not so much for what might be being cancelled but also what has sticking power right now. The last issue of Star-Lord solicited in June was for #8 of the series The fourth volume of the trade paperback only has issues 6 to 8, then fills[...]

Even though the film doesn't open until May 6th, Marvel will be hosting the red carpet premier of Captain America: Civil War tomorrow night and they will be live streaming the event at Marvel.com/CaptainAmericaPremiere The live stream will also include an exclusive clip from the movie And you know that one of the actors is[...]

At a two-day Netflix hosted event in Paris, showcasing some of the top shows Daredevil actor Charlie Cox talked about the possibilities of a third season

The New 52 series still has demand even though a new Batman series will be out in a few months. DC's number one book in our store was an out-of-continuity hardcover by the incomparable Grant Morrison, while Marvel took the number one overall slot with a Star Wars title Just coincidence, or does it say something[...]

Whatever 'Death Of X' is, Marvel Comics wants to clear out their warehouse of X-Men related titles, it seems With every X-related trade paperbacks and hardcovers getting a very large discount for retailers who want to help Marvel in that endeavour. So why do Marvel, seemingly, want to clear their warehouse of any X-Men title? And[...]

In this new featurette for Captain America: Civil War, actresses Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Emily Vancamp (Agent 13) and Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet

"Must also" is in the original. — Avoid Murder Hornets, Stay Home (@DanSlott) October 12, 2015 But not according to Marvel lawyers and merchandise Who have just registered a trademark for the phrase "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" for "Shirts, tops, underwear and skirts." Tut tut tut To stop this kind of thing I guess, but even[...]

Dan Slott is the writer of Amazing Spider-Man for Marvel Comics. And, if he has his way, he always will be Not that he hasn't had tempting offers. In a conversation with comics retailer Nevs Coleman, he gave us this revelation. https://twitter.com/DanSlott/status/718801896937562112 They'll get their next chance in 2018… https://twitter.com/DanSlott/status/557713109755125761 Tick tick tick…     [...]

Launching this week, both Black Panther #1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze, and Empress #1 by Mark Millar and Stuart Immonen have sold out from

Turned out to be a Hydra double agent and we let plunge to his death by Nick Fury. Marvel's Agents of SHIELD airs Tuesdays at 9 PM on ABC. [youtube]https://youtu.be/VIDM9ry9iIA[/youtube] Daisy Johnson (Chloe Bennet) and Lincoln Campbell (Luke Mitchell) head out to recruit a new member for the Secret Warriors and receive an explosive welcome[...]

I first encountered the name Steve White when I was a teenager. He was the editor of the letters pages for the Marvel UK reprints of The Punisher comic book And frankly it was the letters page I was buying the comic for While the comics were the hardcore nineties Punisher without a trace of irony, the letters[...]

But they'd also let retailers sell all the DC titles out that week at that time as well. We wondered how the likes of Marvel would respond Well, they appear to have called DC Comics' bluff. Currently, retailers are restricted from opening and selling new comics on a Wednesday until the normal opening hours of similar stores[...]

Jones made new in comic circles when he compared Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to the Marvel Comic's super-villain Sebastian Shaw of the Hellfire Club Today we continue the conversation about how comic books have effected society and politics as well as diving into the current presidential election. DW: What first made me contact you about[...]

In this new clip from Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy animated series, we see Star-Lord try to convince Thor and Heimdall to call off the war, that they are all being manipulated And since the next thing we see is Loki sending a Destroyer against all of them… Peter Quill is probably right. Marvel's Guardians of[...]

For me it was all Marvel Comics all the time Star Wars of course, not so much Star Trek, but Star Wars of course And lots and lots of science fiction Ursula K Le Guin and I loved Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy I was basically hiding in my room reading stuff, hoping at some[...]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a retailer in possession of an order for a first issue of a comic book will drop orders for the second issue by a third to a half. Why? Some readers will try the first issue and not find it to their taste so will not want the second[...]

Two Marvel comics by Al Ewing are published today New Avengers, part of Avengers Standoff (ish) and Contest Of Champions But the latter also crosses over with his Ultimates series that he also writes As the team pay a visit to the Grandmaster.  And they are on the track of the fate of Gun-R… …during which they all[...]

Yesterday Bleeding Cool ran a story about what we thought may be an editorial error in today's Spider-Women: Alpha, along the lines of an caption note in a previous issue of Web Warrior. Yes, that one. The Marvel Universe being referred to as Earth 616, a designation abandoned by Marvel Comics after the Secret Wars series, with executives[...]

I know I'm using DC analogues there, Marvel has always tried to pride itself on showing the real world, Wakanda was an exception and is more in keeping with DC Comics' recreated world. So Wakanda also gets its own superheroes who don't happen to be members of the royal family or challengers to its throne[...]

The one in which he will be  anti-Captain Marvel, opposed to the use of the Inhuman Ulysses to fight threats because, well, he's just a walking spoiler and Brian Bendis hates spoilers. Talking of which In today's Iron Man we learn something that we'd previously only seen in a film If indeed we saw it in[...]

In a new clip for tonight's Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, Daisy Johnson, Phil Coulson and the rest of the team arrive on a scene where a distraught Edwin is trying to explain how a homeless guy showed him the future And in that future, they are attacked by Hydra This ties into the previous clip which[...]

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[...]