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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!   [...]