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With the shocking news breaking today that Superman will get his iconic red underpants back in Action Comics #1000, and the knowledge that "The Great One" Brian Michael Bendis will pen his very first DC Comics story in that issue with superstar artist Jim Lee, excitement is high in the comics community So when a[...]

As Bleeding Cool predicted back in August (pip pip), the most iconic aspect of the entire Superman mythology will finally be returning to the DC Universe in Action Comics #1000 That's right Superman will wear his red underpants on the outside again. A press release from DC gives us our first look at the returning trunks[...]

And to that, we say, pip pip. Now, ComicBook.com's Russ Burlingame EXCLUSIVELY reports that a Bendis Superman story will appear in Action Comics #1000, the oversized issue which will be released alongside a $30 hardcover to celebrate the milestone Not only that, but DC Co-Publisher Jim Lee himself is drawing the story. Though much was speculated about[...]

Things will only get more complicated from here. Action Comics #993 cover by Dan Jurgens, Trevor Scott, and Hi-Fi Before I start, I would be remiss to not point you in the direction of my mighty Editor-in-Chief Rich Johnston's article about Action Comics #993, which, as you can see, is where this review got its headline. Dan Jurgens[...]

Action Comics is adding another artist to its team, starting with November's Action Comics #992 Though Will Conrad was announced as the artist of Action Comics #996 in DC's January 2018 solicitations earlier this week, it looks like Conrad will be joining the title sooner, according to an Instagram post: View this post on Instagram. Steve Pugh[...]

Yanick Paquette draws the variant below for Action Comics #991, which hits stores on November 8 Justice League hits theaters on November 17. Nerdist had the EXCLUSIVE reveal of these covers, but we laugh at EXCLUSIVES Ha ha ha ha ha! See? You can check out variants for The Flash and Wonder Woman by Mike McKone and[...]

Oz is and the reveal tomorrow in Action Comics #987 It's the first part of the new The Oz Effect story arc. Oz has been popping up in various stories over the last few months and seems to know just about everything about the life of Superman But the reveal will show us more than just[...]

We mentioned the other day that Action Comics #1000 was missing from the upcoming Action Comics collections, with Vol 5 going up to #999 and Vol 6 beginning with #1001 We speculated that this may mean a trade paperback-sized #1000 along the lines of Fables #150 And we noted that the description of Vol 6[...]

Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! And courtesy of stats from Diamond Comic Distributors. The charts are topped by Action Comics lenticular covers, Batman's Dark Nights Metal comic with Marvel's Secret[...]

With the story set to reveal one of the biggest mysteries of the DC Rebirth universe soon arriving, DC have revealed that Action Comics will be getting their favourite treatment for big stories: lenticular covers. The Oz Effect, starting in September in Action Comics by Dan Jurgens and Viktor Bogdanovic, promises to reveal the identity of[...]

Picked up, still hot, from the smoking area outside the Hyatt hotel in San Diego, this tip suggested that the true identity of the man who has been both observing and messing with Superman's life, taking it apart and then putting it back together, is…well, you can read it yourself, if you don't mind spoilers. But next[...]

And, since it's his origin, he managed to make a few tweaks along the way. It's still a take on the Fantastic Four – and hey, if Marvel won't publish them, why not DC? And they crash land and transform in a very similar fashion… But in the new version, Hank is skeletal from the get-go… and[...]

With the new Action Comics #977, we get to see the results of the pre-Flashpoing Superman merging with the New 52 Superman With the singular Man of Steel, we get a Clark Kent who has some foggy patches in his memory and some serious doubts Writer Dan Jurgens talks about how Clark will begin to[...]

You may have found a few Action Comics #976 spoilers on Bleeding Cool earlier in the week Tut tut. But today a few DC Comics titles are setting out their stalls regarding DC Rebirth, what exactly happened and who is in charge. Mr Mxyzptlk talks about the "he" as the person behind the splitting of Superman and[...]

The landmark DC Comics publication collects the Superman stories by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster which first appeared in Action Comics #1-4 with the addition of four new pages  The title was originally conceived as a one-shot, and was released in May 1939, but went on to become one of the foundational DC Comics series[...]

In fact, the only possible way you could have found it is by searching for it – or from a link by someone who searched for it. Because, yes, this is the big spoiler for this week's Action Comics, leaked to Bleeding Cool by persons unknown, that shows the reveal of exactly who the Fake Clark who[...]

ComicBook.com has the EXXXCLUSIVE reveal on this one, but we've pilfered the images so you can view them below: Action Comics #977 cover by Andy Kubert Superman #20 cover by Patrick Gleason The new looks will debut in Superman #20 and Action Comics #977 in April, following the events of March's Superman Reborn crossover between the two titles[...]

Today's Action Comics continues Superman dealing with, and preparing for, his upcoming death And how others are reacting to it. But we also get to see Supergirl's relationship to the DEO – a body that in DC Rebirth she will be an agent for Today we get the details of why.She is reliant on the DEO[...]

And what remaining abilities he had were stripped by Vandal Savage (as seen in DC's Legends Of Torchwood) when he was placed in a Kryptonite cell. Yes, like that, from today's Action Comics #49.Obviously he escapes but he still has after effects Just not the ones he was expecting As his body starts to feed off[...]

For April, Action Comics #51 was solicited as written by Peter Tomasi, as part of an eight part story across four titles for two months, Superman, Action Comics, Batman/Superman and Superman/Wonder Woman. But now, after the DC Rebirth stories that Bleeding Cool has run today, it looks more like a chance to clean house, and for Peter[...]

There are ads in today's Action Comics and Gotham Academy. I mean, it's not a very good ad This is what you call feature-led advertising, claiming 365 million copies of the series sold, but not actually why the reader of this ad might enjoy it, It's very much a "build it and they will come" ad. Still might[...]

One month ago, the comic book series Action Comics saw the now-outed Superman, defending the neighbourhood in which he grew up, against the police, ordered to burn the place down, due to unfounded fears of Kryptonian infection And it breaks out into violence. And Fox News has just noticed in an article originally titled "Superman Literally[...]

In today's Action Comics, part of the DC You refreshment, we see an low powered Superman traveling the USA And finding a rather intolerant place towards him, after Lois Lane's exclusive scoop. The one in which she outed Clark Kent and Superman as being one and the same Even Midnighter had heard something about that[...]

Superman has been called the Man of Steel for decades, but thanks to John Henry's organic steel, Kal-El gets a little closer to that name being true in this week's Action Comics #39 This is the final issue of the Horrorville storyline written by Greg Pak and drawn by Scott Kolins and Aaron Kuder. [...]

It was Liebowitz who made the infamous Superman deal with Siegel and Schuster, brining the property to Action Comics, and choosing that famous first cover image. And that is how DC Comics began And even after his death, the wheeler dealing continues. The New York Daily News and DNA info report that the family of the late Jacob[...]

A look at a few slips, 'tween solicitation and publication, from DC Comics. Action Comics #38 was solicited as being drawn by Aaron Kuder but was also joined by Jae Lee Captain America And Mighty Avengers #5 will have interior art by Iban Soria, not the previously solicited Luke Ross. Ms Marvel #12 will have interior art by Elmo[...]

It looks like it's a busy week for Spider-Man and we get to see even more of the Spider-Verse storyline continue! Tons of brand-new series start this week, as Marvel has four brand-new titles as well as a few other ones that we are particularly interested in. We get to see Wolverines hit the shelves, before it[...]

Courtesy of Heritage Auctions, an unrestored copy of Action Comics #1 published by DC Comics in 1938, featuring the first appearance of Superman, and graded by CGC in 3.0 condition just sold for $310,700 Part of a $7.17 million auction, it was part of The Prospect Mountain Collection up for sale, which in total topped $1 million[...]

If the comic book market went up in price at the same average rate as everything else, a comic book should cost $3.39, over a dollar less than the current average. Now, this month had the launch of Axis, two issues of Death Of Wolverine and the Harley Quinn Annual in the top ten, and Batman[...]

More of this, please. While God Hates Astronauts just brings us the wackiest anthropomorphism it can with insane detail… And Action Comics may be a little late of Hallowe'en – it could have been more effective to have Lana's parents as mist-animated zombies lurching around Smallville if it had come out last week Today? We should just[...]