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Marvel Comics has told retailers that it has identified flaws on page one of the 1:100 David Marquez Virgin Variant and the open order Nic Klein Variant of tomorrow's Ultimate Spider-Man #1, and so is issuing another reprint to arrive shortly, "and will be available to fill replacement back orders". Marvel Comics has also admitted to[...]

Marvel Comics is running a month-wide variant cover programme featuring the first appearance of lots of other superheroes' long-lost sidekicks, created for this cover and counting as their first appearance How many will appear again? Who will get the Gwenpool factor? #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption[...]

They regularly commission a number of exclusive variant covers to comics, often drawn by friend-of-the-store Clayton Crain A while ago, they commissioned an exclusive retailer variant by Crain for the Ultimate Fallout #4 facsimile that Marvel put out last year, reprinting the first appearance of Miles Morales A CGC 9.8 slabbed copy recently sold for[...]

Back in February, Bleeding Cool reported on Diamond Comic Distributors' new policy that was reducing publishers' abilities to make variant covers returnable Since the pandemic, lockdown, and shutdowns that affected the comic book industry, a number of comic book publishers had increased the amount of comic books that they made returnable to comic book stores[...]

By the time the dust settled on the second episode of Disney+ and Marvel Studios' Tom Hiddleston-starring Loki, the streaming service found a way to double the mischief by introducing our variant of the Asgardian prince to another- except that would be Asgardian princess with Sophia Di Martino entering the scene as a Lady Loki variant[...]

Retailers, shows, subscription boxes, or creator studios will not be allowed to order them through the wholesale distributor, Diamond. Bleeding Cool has been looking at the  Diamond/Penguin Random House/Marvel Comics deal with interest to see what would lead different retailers to choose PRH or Diamond for their Marvel Comics titles. PRH offers a flat 50% discount rate[...]

Yesterday, artist Tone Rodriguez posted on his Facebook page, read by a few dozen fans, the following retailer variant cover to the new Mighty Crusaders series that Rob Liefeld is writing and drawing for Archie Comics, with the first issue, The Shield Saying, Sooooo, this is Happening! The SHIELD #1 CAMELOT BOOKS AND COMICS EXCLUSIVE COVER From ARCHIE[...]

Of late some publishers have reduced that returnability but it still remains at a greater level than it once was. One result is that it has been easier for retailers to order tiered variant covers at 1:50, 1:100, even 1:1000 if they are free to return the overordered amounts But with more and more variant covers,[...]

Here are a bunch of them. CoverWatch: 30 Covers For Keanu Reeves' BRZRKR #1 Forbidden Planet UK Exclusive – Skan Srisuwan Variant Forbidden Planet UK Exclusive – Skan Srisuwan Variant Set Also available from JetPack Comics in the US. Rod Reis Exclusive Cover limited to 700 copies. Rod Reis Exclusive Cover limited to 500 copies.   Christian Ward Exclusive Cover – State Of[...]

To get an exclusive retailer cover from Marvel or DC, shops, shows or creators have to order a minimum of 3000 copies, with subsequent variants of the variant at 1500 and 1000 They pay the full wholesale price, plus the artist's cost – unless they are representing the artist themselves These can be sold for[...]

And just as Patrick did an exclusive version of that first cover from his own website, a virgin variant cover that is selling for from $300 to $500 on eBay. Now Patrick Gleason has done another exclusive cover from his website for Venom #33 With Non-US customers dealing with Scott's Collectibles And at $25 standard, $35[...]

After the insane success of The Amazing Spider-Man #55 cover by Patrick Gleason - which has led to a second printing that far outstripped orders for the

While Patrick Gleason's own virgin variant version of the comic that he was selling for $24.99 each,is now selling for up to $200 raw on eBay as well. It also went to a second printing with a red cover – and a 1:50 version with a flipped-back-to-the-original artwork as Bleeding Cool suggested it might Meanwhile, the Gabrielle Dell'Otto variant has[...]

ComicBookExclusives is a new comic bookseller, set up expressly to create and sell retailer exclusive covers from various publishers. And their first such

Here's the standard cover, below. Credit: Marvel for Wolverine: Black White And Blood #2 And here is the Marvel secret variant. Credit: Wolverine: Black White And Blood #2 from Marvel. He's got his mask off! Marvel Comics has run a few unannounced secret variant covers with minor changes, just to intrigue and excite comics collectors; you never know where[...]

The Wonder Woman 1984 movie variant covers for a punch of normal DC Comics titles were originally scheduled to run in the run-up to the April 2020 planned release date for the movie.  The movie was postponed, the covers were cancelled on those April comic books The covers were then rescheduled for October alongside the[...]

Marvel Comics is reviving up their exclusive retailer variant cover programmes again, for December 2020, they have a paltry eight but for January, ramping up to twelve for the New Year To get a retailer exclusive cover from Marvel or DC, shops, shows or creators have to order a minimum of 3000 copies, with subsequent[...]

It's Future State time! DC Comics has, of late, been issuing Team Variant covers for comic stores who cannot afford to go the whole hog and get a 3000 print run on an exclusive variant cover Instead, DC Comics do a 10,000 print run on each cover and let twenty stores buy a minimum 500[...]

She drew a couple of stories picked up by Grant Morrison when he was EIC of Heavy Metal Magazine and has since become the hottest cover art variant creator in the business In October, that means lots of covers – thirteen in total, if you include different art variants (not including any virgin trade dress-free covers) from DC[...]

A couple days ago we let you know that Faithless II #2's Erotic Variant was bagged incorrectly, meaning instead of covering up all the naughty bits…those were on display We already knew that these variants from by Tula Lotay at Boom! Studios were going to be rare, but now Boom Studios have asked for the copies[...]

Walmart started putting Marvel 3 Packs in stores a few years ago, and in response DC upped the commitment starting up the new Giant line that used to be Walmart exclusive, and now is early shipped to Walmart with variant covers Marvel responded a few months back by selling Walmart a new approach for the[...]

Be on the lookout for this figure making the list in one of our upcoming holiday DC superhero guides.  The Batman: The Animated Series 1/6th Scale Batman (Black Variant) Figure from Mondo is priced at $150 The Dark Knight is set to reign down on Gotham in January of 2020 Pre-orders for this figure that are already live[...]

Bleeding Cool reported how rare this black and white version of the D23 Marvel Comics #1000 cover variant was While everyone in the Marvel Comics panel at D23 got the regular Mickey Mouse Marvel Comics #1000 cover drawn by Humberto Ramos, and then a bunch of comic stores also got a copy, copies were flipped[...]

Last week, in an article about San Diego Comic-Con, we mentioned that Marvel Comics gave out rare variant covers of Silver Surfer Black #2, featuring Carnage riding the Surfer's board And pointed out how much they were going for on eBay, up to $180. We also mentioned that we had heard from retailer discussion in the[...]

Which is a good time for Marvel Comics to discount a tonne of variant covers from recent years, all below the usual standard cover discount enjoyed by retailers, including a number that were originally tiered, needed miniumum orders or were premium in one way or another Not any more… plenty of 1:10, 1:15 and 1:25[...]

Can the Justice League find a way to stop the spread of death? This is the dire situation in DCEASED, the new six-issue miniseries written by Tom Taylor with art by Trevor Hairsine and Stefano Gaudiano! Now, DC announces that DCEASED #1 will feature exclusive variant covers available to participating retailers! Out on May the 1st –[...]

Fear not, Marvel readers and masochists who thought to themselves, "yes, Dan Slott wrote approximately 27,000 straight issues of Spider-Man and various Spider-themed events, but I really feel like I need just one more…" Slott is returning to the Spider-Verse to team up with fellow writer Christos Gage and artist Jorge Molina to bring you[...]

Online marketplace eBay has revealed its own EXCLUSSSIVE Avengers #1 variant cover, kicking off the launch of an Avengers-centric online store and, in a bit of a stretch, claiming to feature eBay's first female lead for a variant cover because Captain Marvel is on the cover alongside Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, and Black Panther[...]

Never a slouch in the promotional department, Valiant has been outdoing even themselves with a slew of tongue-in-cheek gimmicks in service of the publisher's forthcoming Quantum and Woody! series from writer Daniel Kibblesmith and artist Kano. So far, we've seen "Extreme Ultra-Foil" shelf covers swiped from Jim Lee's WildCATS #2; "The Most Variant Cover of All[...]

Instead, Marvel appears to have used the same variant cover for two issues of a five-issue mini-series Why this has happened is still no more clear than when we thought it was the other way around. Original Story Below: Lucky collectors looking to purchase the David Lopez variant for Darth Maul #5, in stores tomorrow, might be[...]