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Translate that to film and add 50 years of geek culture evolution, and you've got a tough challenge indeed. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Four Thoughts About Four DC Comics On Fifth Week DC really have to do something about this fifth week thing. Marvel's Madame Tussauds Poster Banned In The UK Marvel Super Heroes 4D is a kind of[...]

Marvel Comics have stated that they aim to have their entire super hero line as day-and-date delivery by March 2012 Well, earlier today, as well as Ultimate Comics Ultimates #4, they have put up Wolverine #19, X-Men Legacy #259, FF #12, Uncanny X-Men #2 and… Dorothy And The Wizard Of Oz #3. And far earlier in[...]

Two years after joining Marvel as a talent director after being a director of publishing at Harris Comics, Bon Alimagno is off again He has quit his job at Marvel (unusual to leave voluntarily these days I know) for, I understand, a tech firm in San Francisco. He tells Bleeding Cool; "I've worked with the most talented[...]

It has been observed that Marvel doesn't like keeping a large backlist of their hardcovers and trade paperbacks Or indeed any backlist And as a result, from time to time, they liquidate stacks of stock. Such as the following boooks Expect to see a lot of of these showing up in your local comic shop[...]

Not everyone's mother threw their comics out when they were at summer camp. No, at least one of them just stuffed them in the attic. Which is how George

He thought it might have been announced at this years's New York Comic Con. It wasn't. What is Frank Cho currently drawing for Marvel? And why do Wolverine, Vision, Ultron, Magneto and Quicksilver have the angel of death standing behind them? And what is Ms Marvel hitting? He thought it might have been announced at this years's New[...]

 There are many internal markers a project passes on its way to the store, and tracking them is no small thing (Avatar generates a monstrous amount of internal data doing this very thing, and we put out 10 percent of the books Marvel does on a good month)  So the occasional accidental spoiler is going to happen, particularly in[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool talked about the Superior Kapow World Record #1 comic, a comic created in 12 hours by a group of big name and small name comics

Others are now saying that spoilers enhance the enjoyment of a story. But what happens when the spoilers come from the very top? Such as Axel Alonso's comment in a recent interview on CBR, talking about diversity in Marvel characters. "Also, Striker just came out of the closet in "Avengers Academy," and Wiccan and Hulkling continue to[...]

Plenty of spoilers out in the world this week, and again it's a topic of comics internet conversation, as it always is when Marvel has a major media-friendly release I think at this point we all know we have to avoid the internet when we can't consume entertainment in near-real-time — though pre-release leaks in[...]

In an arranged news release with the Associated Press, and as Bleeding Cool warned you, Marvel Comics has released news concerning the contents of Fantastic Four #600 Althoigh, in a twist from form, they have released the spoiler for the Wednesday of release, rather than the Monday before… It has been picked up by CBS News,[...]

Tomorrow, Rian Hughes is lecturing for the Typographic Circle at JWT London in Knightsbridge tomorrow. Leading designer in the comic book field (including

To the surprise of no one following this year's October surprise, the marketshare race heats up in earnest next year, as Marvel has a pretty huge slate of releases set for February  Market watching should be pretty interesting in the weeks leading up to the release of The Avengers in March. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Marvel Double[...]

But I understand that Marvel is looking to get a little publicity for this comic when it comes out on Wednesday Which means, anytime from Monday midnight in New York, there could be big, wacky, massive spoilers going large all over place. So turn off Twitter Stay away from Facebook Uninstall your Hootsuite App It's the[...]

They may be ridding themselves of some of the lower selling titles at Marvel in an attempt to raise profitability But don't think that means Marvel will be publishing less comics. Of late, and especially in five-week months, Marvel has been running extra issues of their monthly comic books Not just the Point One introductory issues,[...]

From Patrick Willems for Bleeding Cool, Marvel super villain The Spot makes an appeal to the top for his own series… And the video that inspired it… From Patrick Willems for Bleeding Cool, Marvel super villain The Spot makes an appeal to the top for his own series… And the video that inspired it… [...]

Emerging tidbits about comic book movies dominated the day today, with the eagerly anticipated duo of The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers leading the

Sorry for the paucity of posting today, folks, birthday tomorrow, family descended, and I'm now off out to the BBC for a double recording of Just A

Of all the things I was pondering during this week of mixed news for Marvel, I kept coming back to this… what an unfortunate week for Tom Brevoort to not be on twitter (and I'm reminded of this at the moment because I see he's back in action just now, fresh from a vacation, it[...]

I'm in. Of course Generation Hope is also on a list of what have been seen as low selling Marvel titles (though high selling for any publisher not in the top four) and after the cancellation of Ghost Rider, X-23, Daken, Black Panther and the shortening of Villains For Hire and All Winners Squad, some, like[...]

Yeah, this isn't going to play well is it? Marvel cancelling their LGBT solo lead comic, the other book written by Rob Williams of Ghost Rider (which has also been cancelled). Axel Alonso, editor-in-chief seemed to slip it into his weekly piece with CBR, saying; That said, I'm proud of X-23's run Two successful limited series[...]

It's been open since 2002, offering "wings, beer, and sports".  You know the kind of place. But not only can you find it in our universe, it seems to have become a favourite watering hole for the journalists of the Marvel Universe too. The Punisher #4 saw Ben Ulrich meet up with Norah Winters at a bar[...]

Zeb transfers this monster to this world of monsters and he fits it beautifully, with some seriously strong facial gurning from Joe Madueira too. Naturally he suffers the consequences of his actions… not that this changes his attitude one iota, and although even he has his limits in blustering bravado. Anyway, we know we're getting Hawkeye and[...]

Up on the Disney site, a new job has just come up. Manager, Digital Customer Acquisition. And what kind of thing does it entail? • Manage consumer model

We seem to be in the middle of one of the most unusual times in recent memory for Marvel  Layoffs followed by series endings and cancellations, with the specter of DC's October marketshare dominance hanging over it all  This all despite Marvel having developed the film side into a blockbuster machine[...]

but at the time of writing, only twelve have seen this video of the Marvel panel since it was uploaded two days ago I think we can do something about that. The clip above sees CB Cebulski and Matt Fraction talking about upcoming plans on Defenders and Avenging Spider-Man reported on earlier today But also the[...]

With a TV series in the works, this would be a strange time to kill off The Punisher at Marvel Comics. But Marvel Comics is putting a lot of promotional hype behind the final issue of Jason Aaron and Steve Dillon's PunisherMAX shipping in February, saying things like; "the Punisher story you never thought you would[...]

CB Cebulski of Marvel announced it last week at the massive Brazilian comic convention FiQ, with MArvel attendance including Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick As well as telling people that The Defenders will see individual issues focus on individual characters, with issue 4 focusing on Doctor Strange, issue five on Namor, with art by Mitch[...]

Mostly written and drawn by men of course. Marvel does have a more impressive line up of female creators, with more writers and artists filling their credits, and in prominent books as well Of course, one of them, Marjorie Lui, is writing X-23. Marvel's only female solo lead character book Or rather it was It appears to[...]

Original comic art from key 1980s-era comics has been hot for several years.  It's considered an important, peak era for comics (think Watchmen, Dark