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A "Ghost Variant" variant cover, commissioned through some secretive process and made available to a select group of stores, only to be revealed on the day it comes out. Or on the day before, if Bleeding Cool gets there first. And it seems that, following Walking Dead #101, the second Ghost Variant will be Saga #7. The third[...]

You didn't think it was going to come that easily did you? The Bryan O'Malley variant cover for Young Avengers #1? Originally solicited as being able to be ordered by any old Harry or Sally, Marvel have now placed restrictions on it – copies can be ordered, in any amount, but only if the retailer[...]

Larry Doherty of Larry's Comics and the rest of his Phantom Group of retailers are selling the original art for their Phantom variant cover of Deadpool #1 on eBay. And here's how it all came together. Larry Doherty of Larry's Comics and the rest of his Phantom Group of retailers are selling the original art[...]

It doesn't take BRAAAIinnessss to figure out zombies are all the rage. Apparently, even store mascots are not immune to the epidemic. Mile High Comics

Bleeding Cool has been running a number of stories of the Hastings variant covers for comic books, sold exclusively at Hastings stores in certain parts of America, There have been all sorts of appealing covers before, from True Blood to Doctor Who to Uncanny Avengers, and lots of people who don;t live near a Hastings, who[...]

Not sure what the occasion is, but here's an eighteenth cover for Uncanny Avengers #1. The other seventeen are here...

And the rare variant cover is part of it, the convention or the store exclusive version is an easy way to create a little pizazz, for highlighted issues and special event, but they don;t happen too often The speculation focused on the content of the book. But of late, things are taking a worrying turn[...]

Marvel has been showing off new variant covers to retailers today… here's what they are, and how hard it will be to get them Firstly,  first five interlinking covers for the new Thunderbolts series… THOR: GOD OF THUNDER #2 ACUNA VARIANT 1:50 JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #646 NOTO VARIANT 1:20 AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #10 DELL'OTTO VARIANT 1:50 THOR: GOD OF THUNDER[...]

Looks like we may be getting even more My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic #1 covers than we expected. Here's one by Amy Mebberson for Third Eye Comics

Today, in the light of retailer Brian Hibbs' attack on variant covers as immoral, and Bleeding Cool's look at exactly how the variant covers of Marvel NOW! can boost the sales of some comics dramatically, David Gabriel has been talking to retailers on Diamond's website about the impact of variant covers And showing off a[...]

And the variant covers might just help that a little, despite Brian Hibbs' protestations of immorality. Well here's another, this one exclusive to Forbidden Planet in the UK and Ultimate Comics in the US, Walking Dead Magazine #1 with a blank spot for sketches, to debut at North Carolina Comic Con. It is already the biggest[...]

Seriously, some variant covers I may actually want to purchase Following on from the Avengers Vs X-Men variant cover comissioned by Midtown and the A Babies Vs X-Babies comic that it inspired, come the reast of the Skottie Young Baby Variant covers for Marvel books, part of the Marvel NOW! relaunch. I'll just shut up and[...]

This is the Hastings variant cover for the new Doctor Who series from IDW… The scarf from Fourth The trousers from Fifth The jumper from Seventh The cuffs of Eight Three The coat of Tenth The ring and stick of One While Amy wears the coat of Six, the cravat of Eight and the hat[...]

The first of the charity-funding We Can Be Heroes variant cover campaigns was to have been Justice League #12 However, because the program was decided upon at the last minute, that issue wasn't solicited through the usual channels and orders may have been lower than expected. Which is presumably why DC Comics have cancelled the blank[...]

This is the official line; "A mysterious figure known as the Ghost has invited a small group of retailers to sell his Ghost Variant comics No one knows who the Ghost is, where the comics are coming from, or what the next Ghost Variant will be But everyone should be on the watch for The Ghost." Variant[...]

This is the rarest of the variant covers to The Walking Dead #100 Courtesy of Wonderworld Comics of Detriot The bloodied Lucille bat, in red, on a black cover, signed by Robert Kirkman Five hundred copies, distributed one per store amongst stores that had the highest orders or increased their orders the most. To CGC with[...]

But as well as that comic shipping this week (along with the mysterious Lucille variant edition of The Walking Dead #100… seriously, someone send us a copy) are a couple of new variants for Walking Dead #101. First is the Ghost Variant of The Walking Dead #101 featuring a very seventies blaxploitation version of Michonne. I don't[...]

Well, it worked for Walking Dead #100. The first issue of the Marvel NOW! relaunch, Uncanny Avengers #1 will have twelve covers to choose from. The original John Cassaday cover, an Adi Granov cover, a Daniel Acuna cover,  three more yet to be assigned including another sketch cover, an Avengers cover, an X-Men cover, a blank variant,[...]

Earlier today, a number of stores who participate in a ComiXology scheme to sell digital comics through their websites, received one copy of a Walking Dead #100 ComiXology variant ahead of their Diamond delivery which will arrive on Tuesday. It has already sold on eBay for $500 With only 500 editions of this cover by Ryan[...]

That dazzling animated display shows off the five Single Day Covers of Lady Death #17 available at San Diego Comic Con this year from the Avatar Booth #2701 , one available, each day, and one from the VIP offering. Here are all the San Diego exclusive variant covers available from Crossed, Ferals and Hero Worship as[...]

Then, the more the merrier. Diamond are holding a retailer event on the Friday of San Diego Comic Con, in which retailers receive a number of presentations from comic book publishers, get fed and watered, and because they just turned up, get the following Batman #11 variant exclusive to the event. As well as a Vorin figure[...]

DC Comics are releasing a series of blank variant cover variants of a number of prominent comics, one each month from August until next July, each one raising money for the We Can Be Heroes campaign. They will all have the cover banner that ran on the regular covers when the campaign to benefit those living[...]

Bleeding Cool understands that three of the eight traditionally distributed covers for The Walking Dead #100 have sold out. The covers by Todd McFarlane,

Revival is the new Tim Seeley book from Image Comics being premiered in The Walking Dead #99. It made its first appearance in the Image Free Comic Book

Both the standard cover, and the San Diego Comic Con variant, which will have a pink metallic foil detailed cover Possibly a first for that particular shade…   Secret Agent Poyo is the upcoming Chew oneshot starring the cyborg assassin chicken from the series who has become a breakout hit character without one word of dialogue[...]

And even though we were completely naive of the business pitfalls ahead of us, our youthful exuberance and enthusiasm had us bantering with customers and having a giggle, where some dealers came across as miserable and not bothered as long as they were making money. Then we started to produce retailer exclusive variant covers We had[...]

And Amy Pond? Tip top. This is the Forbidden Planet variant cover to Star Trek Next Generation: Doctor Who: Assimilation Squared. Advising writer Tony Lee will be signing copies at the London Shaftesbury Avenue branch on the 30th of May. Intriguingly, because Star Trek Next Generation comes first in the title, it can be legally distributed by IDW in the UK[...]

The variant covers have done a fine job of selling Avengers Versus X-Men to stores of late This is our first look at the black-and-whiteing of Ms Marvel and Rogue in the third issue's variant cover by J Scott Campbell They are available to retailers who over 90% of their orders for for the[...]

Bleeding Cool has run a number of articles showing how Marvel is encouraging retailers to order more and more of their Avengers Vs X-Men series, to the extent that for the first issue they are all but giving it away, while for subsequent issues, they are using variant covers to keep the orders high through[...]

Boom's 9.8 CGC Joe Jusko retailer variants for Valen The Outcast have seemed to pay off for the company Retailers had to order a stack of copies, but then could sell off the variants for $200 a pop. And now Boom are doing it all again for the new Sam Humphries comic Fanboys Vs Zombies And[...]