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Marvel Comics are running another of their comic store party promotions, for the launch of Avengers & X-Men: Axis #1. To participate on one of two levels, comic retailers must order either 250% or 200% of their orders for Original Sin #2 (North American sales estimates by ICV2 were 92,643 for that issue.) The 200% tier will[...]

In October, Marvel solicited ten comic books with "Stomp Out Bullying" variant covers. Captain America #25, Avengers #36, Amazing Spider-Man #7, Rocket Raccoon #4, Legendary Star-Lord #4, Guardians Of The Galaxy #20, Hulk #7, Inhuman #7, All-New X-Men #33 and Uncanny X-Men #27. However retailers have been told that All-New X-Men #33, Amazing Spider-Man #7 and Uncanny[...]

DC Comics gave their good friends at Buzzfeed the first look at the themed variant cover programme in October, to follow up on the Bombshell, Batman 75th Anniversary and Selfie themed variant covers And it appears to be a little Hallowe'en themed… such as the Wonder Woman #35 by Aaron Lopresti above… UPDATE: And now from[...]

But the Bombshell variant covers of Detective Comics and Action Comics have topped the charts, ahead of all the Original Sin issues and Harley Quinn issues Nailbiter has clearly been a hit with retailers, upping orders on issue 2 and the reprint of 1 Woods didn't do badly either And Futures End #5 is the[...]

Tomorrow sees the release of Amazing Spider-Man #1. Reports of sales estimates sees orders through the direct market of comic stores as topping 700,000

  These are the variant covers to the upcoming Original Sin Marvel event series running through the summer.   #1 by Steve McNiven, #2 by Agustin Alessio, #3 by Stephanie Hans, #4 by Butch Guice, #5 by Marco Checchetto, #6 by Paul Renaud, #7 by Mike McKone, #8 by Jung-Sik Akn. On the moon, the dead body[...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQO7s9wAuoU Anything DC can do, Valiant can do... well in America rather than China. The Valiant Unity #1 3D cover,

Bleeding Cool recently reported how the Phantom Group of retailers, which negotiate shared exclusive cover variants to be shared among themselves, had worked out a deal where they would receive a whole exclusive comic for a period of time, including an exclusive cover, and how the first of its kind would be Jesus Island. As things[...]

Phantom First Friday is a new exclusive deal arranged for retailers in the Phantom collective. A new comic, exclusive to those stores for a period of

Marvel must have played very nice with Dynamite's Nicky Barrucci for this to happen. But king of the painted variant cover, Alex Ross, is painting a series of covers for Marvel throughout 2014 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Marvel Comics #1, one per month. The first is for Avengers #25 in January… Marvel must have played[...]

This is for a comic already scheduled to have seven covers. They can only be ordered five covers at a time, the first five showing the X-Men reenacting Avengers covers, and the second five with Avengers reenacting X-Men covers. These are added to the Simone Bianchi variant (1:50) Simone Bianchi Sketch variant (1:100) and Alessio variant (1:75),[...]

In The Punisher officially, and in Wanted unofficially. Looks like something else might be up.  Retailers will all receive one copy of an Eminem-variant covered comic for free, to coincide with the release of his new… something. As to which comic, and when, we should find out later this week. Eminem is a bit of a comic book[...]

variant covers in November And just enough time for retailers to up their orders to qualify for them… All-New X-Men #19 (on-sale 11/27/13) ·         Guardians of the Galaxy #9 (on-sale 11/13/13) ·         Iron Man #18 (on-sale 11/06/13) ·         Nova #10 (on-sale 11/20/13) ·         Superior Spider-Man #22 (on-sale 11/20/13) ·         Uncanny Avengers #14 (on-sale 11/27/13) ·         Uncanny X-Men #14 (on-sale 11/20/13) [...]

Comics will have three exclusive variant comic covers for New York Comic Con, for Batman #24, Forever Evil #1 and Superman/Wonder Woman #1. Where they will be selling them however, I have no idea Still waiting to find out what they will be doing at the show without a traditional booth. DC Samurai Jack #1 from IDW[...]

Around the time we opened up Wicked Comics together in 2011, Dave started dating Wendy and he immediately seemed happier than he had been in a long time. Flash forward a little over a year, Dave and Wendy were still together and to promote Astonishing X-Men #51, Marvel solicited a "create your own wedding" variant I[...]

An advance copy of Joker's Daughter #1 has just sold in eBay for $31. While The Joker #1 itself has just sold for $22.50. They will go on sale in comic

  IDW Publishing has announced a San Diego Comic Con exclusive special edition variant cover for My Little Pony #9 featuring the fan-favorite pony Glitter. To the delight of fans, Hasbro has announced that it will release a MY LITTLE PONY 2013 special edition pony, inspired by the popular DJ PON-3 character at San Diego Comic-Con Adding[...]

Here is the impressive list of exclusive San Diego Comic Con covers available this year from Avatar Press (Booth #2701).  Absolution: Rubicon #1 Catfight

Here's the Forbidden Planet variant cover for the first issue of Titan Comics' Death Sentence It features VERITY… A micro-series variant of My Little Pony for Larry's Comics and Jetpack Comics. Limited-Editions Comix have an Adi Granov variant Angela for Guardians Of The Galaxy… And 12 Reasons To Die #2 has a Johnny Ryan variant modelled after[...]

Which naturally means variant covers Here are a few, including one from Limited Edition Comix in the UK, raising money for The Sick Children's Trust, from Ed McGuinness limited to 3500 copies. The Phantom cover by Humberto Ramos. The Hastings chain have their version by Kevin Wada which has a rather Downton Abbey/Brideshead Revisited feel. Midtown Comics have[...]

Here's a look at the Dynamite exclusive covers for ECCC, next weekend. One for Shadow Year One, another for Masks and two for the Red Team. ComiXology and

But who is under the mask?

Wolverine, Emma Frost, Invisible Woman, Taskmaster, Beast, She-Hulk, Luke Cage, Spider-Man, and Moon Knight may be the team of MArvel superheroes tasked to take down the Age Of Ultron. But there's a bunch more characters in this playground fight, as depicted by Skottie Young in his variant cover for the first issue. No supper for Ultron! [...]

The 60th birthday for MAD Magazine in April. And cartoonists Sergio Aragonés, Al Jaffee, Peter Kuper, Tom Richmond and more will be will be drawing variant tiered covers for certain DC titles. So the availability of Justice League Of America #3, Justice League #3 and Batman #19 Mad variant covers will depend upon the lowest DC New[...]

We recently reported that the Steve Ditko Variant for Amazing Spider-Man #700 was selling on eBay for over $1200 and copies are still selling for over a thousand dollars. But it seems that Marvel have a few spare copies, and will be distributing them with every 250 copies that retailers order of the second print[...]

A few years ago, Joe Quesada and the Marvel crew used to record Christmas rock'n'roll songs. They did a few, year after year, but along the way they

Here are a few new variant covers from Marvel… with exactly the way you might be able to get copies for yourself. The 1:100 Savage Wolverine cover by Joe Quesada The 1:100 Superior Spider-Man cover by Joe Quesada Skottie Young Baby variant available to retailers who exceed 125% of their orders for AVX VS #3 wth order[...]

Deadpool continues to have some fun with the Justice League Of America 52 state cover variants, with this cover for Uncanny X-Men #1… "Ornithology is one of America's greatest past times," mentioned Senior Editor Nick Lowe "With Inauguration day and Spring just around the corner – we could think of no better way than to celebrate[...]

February brings a batch of new Skottie Young "Baby Variant" covers, tiered to certain order levels, from Marvel Or the "Young Baby" variants, which still sounds weird. Retailers order Fearless Defenders #1 and Secret Avengers #1 can order extra Baby covers if their initial orders match those of AVX VS #6. Nova #1 has its Baby level[...]

Whooo. Available at the same comic stores that got the Walking Dead and Saga ghost variant covers… Whooo. Available at the same comic stores that got the Walking Dead and Saga ghost variant covers… Whooo. Available at the same comic stores that got the Walking Dead and Saga ghost variant covers… Whooo. Available at the same comic stores that[...]