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You recently reported how DC Comics was outselling Marvel in terms of graphic novels and trade paperbacks in comic stores Yet in every comic shop I go into, I'm more likely to see Marvel hardcovers on the shelf? What's going on?" It's not just DC trade paperbacks selling quicker than Marvel, Retailers are relatively good at[...]

Thank you for all those who wrote to me after seeing the cover to Avengers Vs X-Men #4 as Thor trying to face down Phoenix, as man trying to face his fear

You're walking through a shopping mall in Seoul. You come across this piece of corporate art. You realise that it's the Hulk having a rather difficult

Is it Spider-Man? Or has Iron Man just got a fancy new paint job? This is the costume he'll be wearing in the upcoming Ends Of The Earth storyline, as the

While Marvel have taken the top dollar marketshare, for the revenue raised. So both DC and Marvel are top in January Everybody wins! However, also of note, I'm told by numerous sources now that in January, DC Comics have a lock on the Top Ten sold comics of the month. Despite the launch of Scarlet Spider from Marvel,[...]

  Can you make the above out? Hard I know. You might need to clicky for biggy. But if you really want a better look at this design by Ilias Kyriazis,

 The best known and census-topping CGC 9.6 copy from the famous White Mountain pedigree last changed hands several years ago in a private transaction, before the most recent escalation of Marvel key comic prices of the past few years  The previous record for a copy of this issue was for a CGC 9.2 copy for[...]

Spider-Man: Ends Of The Earth is the storyline that writer Dan Slott says he's been building up to, with Doctor Octopus and the Sinister Six launching numerous world threats simultaneously. Marvel teased a look at the new costume Spider-Man will be donning, and now we get the colour scheme Red and blue, mostly. Ends Of The Earth[...]

We saw a few unlettered pages from Avengers Vs X-Men #0 earlier today, by Brian Bendis and Jason Aaron, drawn by Frank Cho. Well, here are some more.

I know that's meant to be Scarlet Witch's costume. But it does also look like she's just spent too much time in the sun. And is starting Avengers Vs X-Men

He writes; Well, I saw this coming when my Marvel assignment and my non-comic project deadlines kicked into overdrive around Thanksgiving I'm postponing the release of "Guns & Dinos" until I finish my Marvel project and Zombie King screenplay. I want to apologize to all my fans out there who were eagerly waiting for this book[...]

Kris Shaw's Marvel vs DC Omnibus video led to some pretty interesting discussion in the forum today I'm a pretty big consumer of Omnibuses, archives, and other hc formats from both publishers, and there are lots of little pluses and minuses on both sides of the equation  But quality across the board on these has[...]

Bleeding Cool reader Kris Shaw is a little ticked about the state of DC Comics Omnibus titles when compared to Marvel Omnibus equivalent And how sewn binding makes a big big difference in gutter disappearance and books laying flat So he decided to record the difference for YouTube And then told me about it. Now if[...]

The week after next, Marvel's new Earth Season One original graphic novels begin publication. But rather than being on sale on Wednesday as you might expect, one comics retailer tells me that they will be able to sell them from Tuesday, the day before, as and when they receive them. That's because Tuesday is the on-sale date[...]

"It might be awkward for two white people to talk about this, but they're written by two white people!" Grace Randolph and Alan Kistler sit down at

It looks like it's back up. Deadpool editor Jordan D White's recording of Daniel Way's lyrics from Deadpool #49.1 by way of a few popular modern tunes and

Recently, Bleeding Cool ran an article on how Marvel were looking to get certain creators out of their exclusive deals with Marvel, in an attempt to save money And how Ariel Olivetti may have been a good example, locked into a two year excluisve deal with Marvel but suddenly appearing on the rejigged Men Of[...]

But on the actual cover, this had been changed to PI. Mark Brooks, the cover artist, is a big FLCL fan – as are a number of Marvel editors Sadly the legal department wouldn't allow themselves to get equally carried away… FLCL (pronounced Fooly Cooly) is an anime from Japan shown on Adult Swim, but more[...]

The week after sees the debut of Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan's Conan The Barbarian, the Bryan Talbot/Mary Talbot graphic novel Dotter Of Her Father's Eyes, Thief Of Thieves from Image and Fantastic Four Season One from Marvel.   Dark Horse ARCHIE ARCHIVES HC VOL 04 CLASSIC MARVEL CHARACTERS #4 DAREDEVIL CLASSIC MARVEL CHARACTERS FF #1 MR FANTASTIC DARK HORSE PRESENTS #8 DONALDSON[...]

WARNING – There are spoilers for certain Marvel titles published today. In Uncanny X-Men of late, we've had a Celestial standing around near Utopia, which became a major plot point for Sinister's machinations recently that saw the X-Men have to stare down the coming Celestials, god-like aliens responsible for the mutations in humanity, and created by[...]

Neal Adams helped Jack Kirby get credit for his Marvel work back in the seventies and eighties, and even got some of his art back from the publisher, but Jack never got a penny from the reprints and subsequent media exposure of his comic book work for Marvel during the sixties, where he co-created The[...]

I thought this may have been the case on the thumb nail but the full size version confirms it. Bleeding Cool has been running the theory that Sergeant Marcus Johnson is not only the hidden son of Nick Fury, but that he is being lined up as Nick Fury Jr, to take his father's role in[...]

Grace Randolph takes a look at tomorrow's comics tday - but first, what is the impact of the Avengers movie having on comics? Should it have one? And what

Bleeding Cool has been telling you that Marvel was to launch a new series of kids comics based on their TV cartoons for a while now, Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes Adventures and Ultimate Spider-Man Adventures But we didn't tell you who was writing and drawing them Because we didn't know. But now we do And it's[...]

I pointed out that scam and Diamond acted accordingly, removing the excess sales from the statistics. What Marvel and DC have been doing is not a scam, but it does warp industry statistics and creates an unrepresentative picture of the relative sales of books Take sales reported for November, a month in which DC won marketshare[...]

At the weekend, Bleeding Cool showed you thumbnail cover images of all the Marvel comics for April Or so we thought. See, Marvel are issuing a bunch of Avengers alternative variant covers for a bunch of books in April, showing Avengers through the ages Literally, through the Ages, portrayed in many artistic styles mirroring the likes[...]

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool. November was a solid month for both publishers, and Marvel had the higher percentage of female creators for only the second time all year after a very close loss in October Marvel's definitely stepped it up this autumn, while DC's remained fairly steady. DC COMICS While DC is up a smidge from[...]

Again, much thanks to Midtown's database for this one. You've already seen Marvel's April 2012 solicitations – albeit with the credits of March Well, now here are all the covers… in thumbnail form. Note the braille vertical logo for Daredevil, breakfast-watching Spider-Man, Ultimate Storm's bottom, Captain America repelling an unseen Cyclops' optic blast, some X-Men pop art,[...]

Courtesy of Midtown Comics, here are the Marvel solicitations for April 2012 Ish For monthly comics at least. There seem to be a few glitches that need ironing out concerning credits, which seem to preserve March's details, but the solicitation listings do give a few interesting revelations… such as Jason Aaron leaving Wolverine with #304 and[...]

"The superhero who suggested that all this fighting was just silly and everyone should just kiss and make up." Or the cover to Wolverine And The X-Men #9 from April, one of three Wolverine And The X-Men titles shipping that month. This April, as the Marvel Universe waits on baited breath for the arrival of the all-powerful[...]