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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[...]

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[...]