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Today, comic stores are receiving a bunch of Mavel ttitles a week earlier. But maybe not all that they ordered. Retailers have been told that of the

Amazing Spider-Man #1.2 is out today (as is Amazing Spider-Man #6, though really that came out last week) and for all of those people who condemn modern

Anyway it gives War Machine a chance to do some remote viewing and stare mournfully across New York…. Before he is attacked y… …the cleaner! Clearly Civil War II will be a comic looking at the effect of technology on labour, how manual skills are being destroyed, leading to the downtrodden working classes and underclassed being increasingly joined[...]

Funko has just released images of their Pop and Dorbz figures coming out in February and March respectively for the new Marvel's Captain America: Civil War film. A quick scan tells us Crossbones is a big part of the film since he has 3 different Pop versions Vision gets no Pop but shows up in the[...]

Tonight Marvel's Director of Content and Character Development Sana Amanat (and 35th most powerful person in comics) will be on Late Night With Seth Meyers joining to talk Marvel. She will "discuss how Marvel reflects "the world outside your window", what it's like to help craft the Marvel Universe, and what's coming up for Marvel Comics." Expect a lot[...]

Wikipedia tells us: A rimshot is a percussion technique used to produce an accented snare drum backbeat. This sound is produced by simultaneously hitting

We've seen the "Story Thus Far" variants solicited in Marvel's listings of late, for February and March Now we understand exactly what they are Pretty much what we thought they'd be. Coming to the first issue of select second arcs, experience all the big action and can't-miss moments of the first arc in one striking image![...]

What's even crazier is that this magical cube learns from past games to improve its guessing skills. Reggie loves it, as pictured above. Now Uncle Milton is applying this same technology to the Marvel Universe  Soon, you will be able to hold the power of the Tesseract in your hand  The Marvel Avengers Tesseract 20q will hit[...]

Marvel and DC Comics don't do crossovers any more Not when it comes to the comics, that is But when it comes to the trademarks it's a different story. Although many consider that the jointly held trademark for the words "super hero" by Marvel and DC may not that be defensible in court, they have jointly[...]

We salute you, and the keenness you bring to your passion. And for once, DC Comics took the top three…with a Batman/Justice League combination as Marvel had a relatively weaker week – this doesn't count the Friday released titles however. 1 Justice League #47 2 Batman Europa #3 3 Batman & Robin #13 4 Deadpool & Cable Split Second #1 5[...]

If you didn't watch an ABC affiliate to ring in the New Year then you may have missed this latest promo for the upcoming return of Marvel's Agent Carter In season two Peggy (Hayley Atwell) and Edwin Jarvis (James D'Arcy) end up in Hollywood on her next case for the SSR. Marvel's Agent Carter debuts January[...]

Marvel aren't quite as trigger happy DC Comics over challenging the registration of trademarks right now – and seem to be the subject of cases more than they are instigators. But they are challenging Tony Tune for registering the name "Marvelasy" as a trademark for Large toy building blocks; Toy building blocks, which can be connected to each[...]

Mostly. But feel free to catch up with previous years by clicking on all these links. So what will get the Feud Of The Year? So many to choose from… here are a select few. Marvel created two covers, aimed at DC Comics 1:5000 original art variant covers for Dark Knight III: The Master Race #1 – one for Star Wars:[...]

In Sandman Overture, there's an example of a page that is ripped in two over the turn of the page. It's a clever storytelling device. Well, Spidey #2 does

The four pillars that most comic fans would think of would've been Ben Parker, Bucky Barnes, Captain Marvel and Jason Todd / the second Robin. Turns out sacred cows make good burgers too… Jason Todd was teased to return in the Hush storyline and then really came back Under the Red Hood Captain Marvel became an[...]

Marvel shipped a number of comic books early to some stores in the US this week in error, apparently But told retailers that they couldn't sell them until next week Even though many had unpacked, stacked, slipped then into pull lists and sold them on eBay We mentioned it a couple of times, including the[...]

Denied is something else, remember that Tom Brevoort denied that Marvel were to cancel the Fantastic Four last year if it was still selling, And, in fact, it put on sales…. Don't worry, we'll get to the ones we got wrong as well… we've done the ones we definitely got right. There were the rumours of serious[...]

The Marvel comic book series Civil War was first published in Turkey under the exact translated title, "İç Savaş" The publishers of the title, Marmara Çizgi, were naturally excited when the title of the new Captain America movie, Captain America: Civil War was announced an they got a huge boost in sales. However, when the trailer to the movie[...]

Recently Marvel attempted to register the word "Illuminati" for its comic book line It's a name they have used in recent years and have just launched a comic under that title, featuring the bad guys of the Marvel Universe teaming together under the leadership of The Hood. Who would oppose such a registration? The real shadowly[...]

It's not just DC Comics that are all up in trademark kerfuffles, Marvel have them too. Indeed they are being challenged by the Swiss manufacturer of the Omega watches, over Marvel's attempt to register the trademark for "Omega The Unknown." The character, created by by Steve Gerber, Mary Skrenes and Jim Mooney, in an ill-fated but fondly remembered series in 1975-1977 was revived thirty[...]

with the return of Nowhere Men, a new Adventure Time, Judge Dredd, Dragon Age and I Hate Fairyland, there's also a relative absence of Marvel and DC on the advance reorders this week…. TOP 25 ADVANCE REORDER COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS/TPs (RETAIL) Description SRP Vendor MONSTRESS #3 (MR) $3.99 IMA TOKYO GHOST #5 CVR A MURPHY & HOLLINGSWORTH (MR) $3.99 IMA APHRODITE IX REBIRTH TP VOL 01 NEW[...]

We've seen the photos from Entertainment Weekly, now Netflix has released a couple new images from their upcoming second season of Marvel's Daredevil We start with newcomer Jon Bernthal playing Frank Castle / The Punisher Then we have Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) and Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson) in church Then[...]

Comic book retailers served by the Diamond Comics Plattsburgh warehouse received an interesting note. Due to an error on the part of the printer, some Marvel Comics titles with an on sale date of January 6 were released early without notification As a result, these titles are included with your shipment of product scheduled for an[...]

I came across this randomly a while back and saved the link thinking it would be an interesting story someday for the site... with the release of the

ABC has released via Facebook a new promo for the second season of Marvel's Agent Carter Here we see Hayley Atwell reprising her role as the SSR's best agent as well as James D'Arcy returning as the always helpful Edwin Jarvis. Marvel's Agent Carter season 2 will debut January 19th at 9 PM right after a[...]

No's Comics & Games Superstore of Marietta, Georgia Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa Yesteryear Comics of San Diego, California Graham Crackers Comics: 10 stores in the Mid-West Who have this to say Marvel dropped the ball by NOT releasing the C-3PO SPECIAL #1 today – could have been the weeks best seller, beating even DK III #2 – as EVERY SINGLE customers conversation was[...]

Everyone has a different experience at different points in their life, and its wonderful to see this represented. In fact, the whole Iceman affair has been the best bit of LGBTQ relations that Marvel has managed this past year…pretty much everything else they have fumbled, stumbled and even insulted the LGBTQ audience with[...]

Just as promised by his 12 days of Christmas promotion, the new full trailer for Deadpool has dropped, filling you with totally inappropriate cheer. It's

Three of the five are identifiably "healer" characters in the Marvel Universe – Excalibur, Elixir and Triage. Could the villains in the first arc be targeting healers? To stop them helping with M-Pox and ensuring the death of mutants… could Uncanny X-Men be tasked with keeping the healers safe? This preview page for an upcoming issue of[...]

Earlier in the year, Bleeding Cool pointed out how a figure on the front of the upcoming Illuminati #3 appeared to be the Human Fly character and wondered as to the rights issue regarding this real life daredevil who had a Marvel comic book based on him, but is also the subject of a planned[...]