spider-man Archives

UPDATE: Here's the cover in question… Yesterday, Marvel put out a press release about how comic book readers could get their own face onto a copy of Amazing Spider-Man Readers were asked to contact their local comic book retailers to ask how. But Bleeding Cool is happy to lay it out for everyone. To qualify, a comic shop[...]

Does  Spider-Man, in this preview for Ultimate Fallout #4 featuring the new Spider-Man, have an African American neck? Could it be heavy shadow or lighting? Or are Marvel just playing silly buggers as usual? Let's find out on Monday when Marvel leak it to the New York Times. Is it or isn't it? It is, isn't[...]

Untold Tales Of Spider-Man was a comic by Kurt Busiek and Pat Olliffe (and a few friends), that told early stories of Spider-Man, all for an industry-discounted 99 cents an issue It ran for twenty-six issues and a couple of annuals Now, Tom Brevoort and Kurt Busiek have been tweeting back and forth. Kurt: Nice! THOR:[...]

Martin Ansin's illustration for a Rolling Stone magazine piece on Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark… And the cover to The Sensational She-Hulk #3 by John Byrne. In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or[...]

At the San Diego Comic Con, David Gabriel from Marvel said that they had had to remove a Sarah Palin appearance from one of the one hundred and fifty Amazing Spider-Man #666 Retailer variants (see them all here) But looking at the variant commissioned by Larry's Comics, someone else seems to have slipped through… Let's have[...]

Over 15o comic book retailers participated in an Amazing Spider-Man #666 promotion to have their store featured on the cover of a specially select print run of the comic in question, out next week. Each retailer had to commit to buying 150% of their normal amount of the normal cover and then at least 500 copies[...]

144 pages of John Romita Amazing Spider-Man art, just like the actual boards… for a hundred bucks Start building bigger shelves. Scot Dunbier's originated format for IDW, the Artist's Edition, reproducing the original artwork for comic books, has taken another victim 144 pages of John Romita Amazing Spider-Man art, just like the actual boards… for[...]

One of the strengths of Spider-Man as a character is that he's always had an affinity for overcoming human problems  And he's had plenty of them: job problems, relationship problems, even high school drama  I kind of hated the constant distraction from superheroics at first as a kid, but the ability to absorb it all[...]

From Marvel and Dark Horse, a thousand-copuy limited edition statue, retail price of $49.99, only sold at the San Diego Comic Con 2011, with a limit of

Not sure if I was just lucky, but it seemed like more than a coincidence that the variant bag was the only one like that in the stack… So… can you find a dusty Ultimate Spider-Man with a Bendis signature inside? UPDATE: Another Little Bleeder writes in and says they popped in their local store,[...]

So lets have a look inside the bagged Ultimate Spider-Man #160 and see what's what. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, off Leicester Square in London. So I've just picked up this week's comics from Orbital in London and I'm on the bus So lets have a look inside the bagged Ultimate Spider-Man #160 and see what's[...]

It says something that a story arc in Ultimate Comics Spider-Man and in Ultimates Comics Ultimates Vs New Avengers entitled "The Death Of Spider-Man" needs spoiler space for its concluding episode. But, nevertheless, despite the comic in question, Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #160 being polybagged when it ships tomorrow, so as not to spoil the surprise,[...]

At the Marvel Live Blog today, Marvel announced a new ongoing monthly series, Avenging Spider-Man from Joe Madureira and Zeb Wells, starting in November, and at least initially, tying in with characters from The Avengers. Zeb Wells was quoted as saying "With Dan Slott nailing all the Peter Parker soap opera stuff in Amazing Spider-Man,[...]

A man in a Spider-Man mask was part of an armed robbery of a Wilmington, Delaware 7-11 Friday night  Dana DiFilippo of the Philadelphia Daily News had the most interesting take on this, saying: A man in a Spider-Man mask stormed a Wilmington 7-Eleven early yesterday morning and ordered the young clerk to hand over the[...]

Bleeding Cool has already run pieces on the IDW Godzilla and Avatar/Boundless War Goddess mass retailer variant covers, but now Marvel has entered the fray with Amazing Spider-Man #666 If a retailer orders 150% of their usual Amazing Spider-Man numbers, and they can order 500 or more additional covers with their choice of personalised cover[...]