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Thomas Howell Has Some Amazing Spider-Man Spoilers For You There is not a whole lot to talk about Sony wants us to be hush-hush right now I play a relatively small role I play a construction worker who's son is caught in the middle of a battle between the Lizard and Spider-Man on the Manhattan bridge. Most-Clicked[...]

Expect a Page Six One Six blind item piece this week, but for now, let’s talk Nick Spencer. Marvel’s New Fear Itself Teaser WIth Added Voices From The Back It’s nice to hear from the little people sometimes, isn’t it? Spider-Man Shocker: Highest Graded Copy of Amazing Fantasy #15 Goes For $1.1 Million The vintage comics scene[...]

The vintage comics scene is in shock this afternoon with the news that the CGC 9.6 copy of Amazing Fantasy #15, the first appearance of Spider-Man by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee, has sold in a private transaction for $1.1 million This is far and away the highest price paid for a Silver Age[...]

The final issue of the Death Of Spider-Man arc in Ultimate Spider-Man will be polybagged – just as with Fantastic Four#587 to hide the ending from being flicked through instore or presale. Ultimate Spider-Man #160 will be published in July and threatens to be the last issue, you know, alive Unless of course there is a[...]

Over on the left hand side of Bleeding Cool, we're running the Jim Shooter account of the Spider-Man stage event that never actually happened, as well as the full script. But in the introduction, Jim Shooter makes much of the incompetence of the licensing side when he was editor-in-chief of Marvel – and the editorial regime[...]

He currently writes the Gold Key titles for Dark Horse Comics. But did you know on his departure from Marvel Comics, he was hired to write a big budget stage show for Spider-Man to tour the USA by Steve Massarky, the man with whom he would form Valiant Comics? Twenty-two years before Spider-Man: Turn Off The[...]

Some people get annoyed that J Scott Campbell still hasn't finished the long-promised twelve issue Spider-Man project he's been working on for an age. But when he puts out sketches like this, I don't suppose anyone can mind too much. All right then, who's going to do He-Man? Some people get annoyed that J Scott Campbell still[...]

Yeah, so this was really the day to read comic books all about death and mourning. Both Fantastic Four #588 and Amazing Spider-Man #655  take the silent approach. The first, in the wake of Fantastic Four #587 and the death of the Human Torch, sees the team and the family suffering the death individually in their own[...]

From Amazing Spider-Man 654.1, a sneak peek at just what lies in store for our favourite web slinger in the year ahead Looks like that loss of spider-sense may be a lot more permanent than first thought, he's off into space, there's someone mysterious in the science labs, a Spidey-powered Mary Jane, and Doctor Octopus[...]

We'v seen Periscope Studios' take on Mad Men. So why not take a run around the block with Marvel's Spider-Girl? From, respectively, Dustin Weaver, Ben

Ultimate Spider-Man is light, Amazing Spider-Man is not That's the difference a 22 story page count and a 30 page count can make to a comic The main stories are the same length but Amazing has that little extra debut of the new Venom. But let's look at the Ultimate issue first, a prelude as it[...]

Spider-Man's bottom Taken during filming in downtown LA and put up on OnLocationNews… That's right folks Spider-Man's bottom Taken during filming in downtown LA and put up on OnLocationNews… That's right folks Spider-Man's bottom Taken during filming[...]

I wonder if this could be an injury to Spider motif? The January 17th edition of The New Yorker puts the accident-prone Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark on the cover With something looking more like Welcome To Tranquility, it depicts a number of Spider-Men in a hospital ward in various stages of traction. The article inside quotes[...]

Both Marvel and DC license their characters for all types of products. Joe Quesada once told me his occasional frustration about certain licenses that

We all know that Mephisto erased Peter Parker's marriage to Mary Jane Watson, as well as the world's knowledge that he was Spider-Man But he also seems to have erased Peter Parker's knowledge of the existence of Antarctic Vibranium Take this scene from Amazing Spider-Man #352. He seems quite the Antarctic Vibranium expert[...]

Tonight's performance of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark was cancelled a few hours before showtime after a lengthy meeting with Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the State Department of Labor officials, according to NY1 The move comes amidst continued concerns for the safety of performers, following a Monday-night accident which resulted in serious injuries[...]

In a presidential news conference happening right now, President Barack Obama has stated, regarding greater bipartisanship in policy making, that Republicans recognise that "with greater power comes greater responsibility." We all knew that Barack Obama was a Spider-Man fan But we didn't know he was going to start putting it in his speeches Anyone got odds[...]

Until that day, read on. Spider-Man and Cameron Crowe movies give L.A production a jolt | Company Town | Los Angeles Times Sony began its 90-day film shoot for the Spider-Man film two weeks ago, mainly on the lot but also on location: including at the Henry Fonda Theater in Hollywood and Immanuel Presbyterian Church in mid-Wilshire. Red[...]

It is considered one of the defining moments of the Marvel Universe: a dejected Peter Parker throwing his costume in the trash, attempting to leave his life as Spider-Man behind  The splash page of this pivotal moment from the classic 1967 tale written by Stan Lee and drawn by John Romita for Spider-Man #50, an[...]

We've had Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark, now we have The Hulk: Inside And Out And very good it is too Here, have a peek. We've had Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark, now we have The Hulk: Inside And Out And very good it is too Here, have a peek. We've had Spider-Man Turn Off[...]

But what do the fans think? Let's ask Little Bleeder John, an engineer whose been reading Spider-Man for twenty-two years But never seen it so… sung before So John? Are you a cynical, world weary fanboy? Seen it all before? Aware of all the problems, stoppages, cracks in performance and as a result sworn off[...]

From the confusingly titles Midtown Comics Downtown in New York at noon today, New York Mayor Bloomberg, Spider-Man and Joe Quesada campaigning on the unemployment measures coming out from the city and highlighted in the Spider-Man propoganda sheet inserted free into copies of the New York Daily today. Sadly, the comic chose not to tackle the[...]

So, Marvel announce the Death Of Spider-Man – but aha! It's the Ultimate Spider-Man! Fooled you! Is it me, or was Ultimate Spider-Man actually meant to die in Ultimatum, was indeed pronounced dead, but then in Requim was suddenly found alive And now he's dying again Did something go a little skew-whiff in the planning? Anyway, it;s[...]

Could Iran's reported hatred of Spider-Man lead to a scene such as the one above? Welcome to Lying In The Gutters for another week This Sunday I turn 38.  Egads Bleeding Cool is one of PC Mag's 50 Favourite Blogs: 2010 What a nice present. Top Twenty Most Popular Stories Of The Week 1 There was no contest[...]

From the new issue of Amazing Spider-Man, by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos. Coming a few months after Kevin Smith on Batman: The Widening Gyre Seriously superheroes, why not go before you go into battle? Even if you don't think you need to go, you should at least try You might not get another chance. At least in[...]

…DC Can Kill Anyone Better Than You. On the DC blog earlier today, Austin Trunick posted the headline "Doomsday Will Reign!" with the following image that famously portrayed Superman's death. Just after Marvel push their Spider-Man death cover of Marvel Previews for February books. Girls, girls, you're both pretty… …DC Can Kill Anyone Better Than You. On the DC[...]

In his rendition of Robbie Williams' Let Me Entertain you, he strips down to his Superman costume and is joined on stage by Batman, The Flash, Catwoman, Spider-Man, Robin and Elektra, dancing, break dancing, leaping and various weird stuff with their hands. Enjoy The song starts at around 1:30, the real madness from about three minutes[...]

Labelled "a Spider-Man comic" by the poster Jenny Suski, it was clearly the Mark Millar and Leinil Yu comic in question. But hmmm… the exact same post was earlier posted on Political Forum by a Laura Draper, with her very first post Using the very same language… And the original post gained attention by being tweeted by[...]

You know that odd theory about asking the Universe for something and wait until it delivers? You know, taking the idea of prayer, removing anyone actually to pray to, and crossing your fingers? Remember all those questions I asked about Marvel Comics' solicitations for September? Well it seems a few of those questions have suddenly been[...]

In September, Marvel are launching the mini-series Spider-Man: The Clone Saga by Tom DeFalco, Howard Mackie and Todd Nauck. Once upon a time, in the seventies Spider-Man was cloned They had a fight, they ended up on the same side, the clone died. Then, in an early attempt to rid Spider-Man of being a book about a[...]