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This is an eBay listing for Amazing Spider-Man #700, in hand, for $50 It was ended early after Marvel Comics intervened. It was listed by the owner of Comic Crusaders, an online comic book store based in Long Island, New York. He read his copy on the 13th of December before putting it on eBay for $50[...]

How can anyone say this sentence from Amazing Spider-Man #699.1 without screaming to the local village and demanding pitchforks and flaming torches. One of the more disturbing elements of Fantastic Four #2 They've captured Moon Boy and stuck him in a stasis cell Moon Boy! There's all sorts of parallels with Jack Kirby one could bring[...]

Is there such a thing as Too Much Information in the social media era? Today, Marvel published Amazing Spider-Man #699, the follow up to the explosive twist in Amazing Spider-Man #698 So, you know, spoilers You know the forum has something to say about this one. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: DC Comics To Speak With One Voice  A number[...]

Back to Amazing Spider-Man #600… Dr Octopus' tricks revealed. Yeah, ugh, Hawkeye presses hope Marvel's anti-smoking policy. I didn't know what to expect from Hellboy In Hell #1 But I definitely didn't expect a puppet theatre retelling of A Christmas Carol, with Marley's spectacles calling back to Hellboy's shaven horns. And while Daredevil: End Of Days gives us[...]

Amazing Spider-Man dominates the advance reorder chart this week, tracking the increased orders of comics by retailers through Diamond in the weeks before the comic is published As ever, second prints and certain variants are over represented on this chart, as this is often the only way they can be ordered, but we can see[...]

I understand that after Final Order Cut Off, the order numbers for Amazing Spider-Man #700 stands at a quarter of a million copies, at $7.99 each Which works out as two million dollars retail It used a number of tiered variant covers (including a 1:200 version) but nothing like, say Uncanny Avengers #1 or the[...]

Amazing Spider-Man #700 $7.99, out on December 26th The seven hundredth issue and the last issue, before the relaunch as Superior Spider-Man. And I hear that comic retailer preorders so far have topped two hundred thousand, which has to be some kind of record for such a high-cost item, and will bring in over one and[...]

It's been a good couple of years for original art sales, but the sale of the cover of Amazing Spider-Man #121 is big even by the lofty standards of the time The Heritage auction blurb nails down the importance of this 1973 issue by Gerry Conway and Gil Kane, with cover by John Romita Sr.:[...]

So Amazing Spider-Man #698 is selling from between $5 and $13 on eBay… but where did it all begin? Could it be a certain scene in Amazing Spider-Man #600? The issue saw Otto Octavius coming to terms with the damage done to his very-human body after years of fighting superheroes, given a terminal diagnosis and choosing[...]

Amazing Spider-Man #698 has already gone to a second print for, you know, obvious reasons And Marvel are promising more mind boggling occurrences in Amazing Spider-Man #700, which has been racking up retailer reorders in its droves. But Avenging Spider-Man #15.1… hasn't. Both shipping on December the 26th, they are the only Marvel Comics coming out that[...]

The following article will act as if you have read Amazing Spider-Man #698 If you have not, you may want to look elsewhere, until you have I think it's a really clever comic and well worth the recommendation But some of you are going to have real problems with it And I'm going to[...]

That's Quesada's cover for Amazing Spider-Man #700 Isn't that webby? Marvel have done their best to keep the spoiler in Amazing Spider-Man #698 locked in a big metal case They didn't even leak it in the national press the day before, so you know they really mean it But nothing can really prevent someone from[...]

The opening title splash page from Amazing Spider-Man #12 (1964) drawn by Steve Ditko has just sold at Heritage Auctions for $137,425 While it is sometimes difficult to discern record prices in the original art market, where closely-held private transactions are common, this is one of the top 5 prices ever paid for a line-art[...]

As often with a Garth Ennis book, most of the action was concluded in the previous issue, now it's time to take stock, reflect, tie up one or two loose ends with some furiously filthy sexual shenanigans, hold your girl in your hand and walk off into the sunset, which remembering those who fell at[...]

And Paul Ryan has used "comic book" in a speech as a perjorative. But still, after  the last election Obama on the cover of Amazing Spider-Man, and in a short back up strip, saw the comic sell over half a million through a variety of printings If Mitt Romney wins the Presidential Election, could he shortly[...]

Will this deny the naughty-naughty Loki a role? And if he does have a part, how big will it be? Amazing Spider-Man Sequel Spoiler Comes With Casting News  Quickly, they get to Spider-Man Then back to Divergent Then back to Spider-Man. Idris Elba Announces Luther Series 3 With A Wicked Laugh The BBC commissioned the series in late 2011[...]

 Just as we were catching up on what we missed in that Map of the Future from a couple years back, now there's this:  Today's Amazing Spider-Man #695… as Madame Web goes a bit ballistic, we get a very special douple page spread, made up of images taken from upcoming Marvel titles. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Amazing[...]

10/29/12 is the FOC for AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #698 You haven't ordered enough Trust me BCers react, guest starring Dan Slott and Stephen Wacker. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Greg Rucka On Leaving Marvel And DC Behind When asked about creator ownership, he replies; Dan Slott Says Retailers Haven't Ordered Enough Amazing Spider-Man #698 Bleeding Cool has been talking up the upcoming[...]

Bleeding Cool has been talking up the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man #698 as an equivalent to Amazing Spider-Man #298, a comic book that led up to the biggest events in the title at the time, and still holds up as a fifty dollar book. Dan Slott seems to agree He tweets; Dear Comic Book Retailer, you've never seen[...]

Will it live up? We'll know starting in November… Most-Read Comic Stories Today: The Secret Surprise Of Amazing Spider-Man #698  Do you remember Amazing Spider-Man #298? The first Todd McFarlane issue, the first appearance of Venom, while there was a lot of emphasis placed on issue #300, but #298 is where it all started, and it can still[...]

And teaching us that war is bad. As Spider-Man continues not to keep Alpha in control in the new Amazing Spider-Man, he does draw on his own past quite deeply With a rather prominent reference to Amazing Spider-Man #33… and he has had a lot of experience of that since! And yes, female Robin-to-be-Huntress one day has[...]

The Amazing Spider-Man panel at Fan Expo Canada has been discussing much Mostly to do with Amazing Spider-Man #700, but plenty more besides. Dan Slott has discussed how every issue from now until then will be a puzzle piece to a giant story How technology from Spider-Island will return in the Goblin War during the Danger[...]

Let's test that shall we? It's the fiftieth anniversary of Spider-Man, and in the new Amazing Spider-Man we get Alpha, a new character, born in the very same style as Spider-Man was but with a very different attitude No guilt, no cares, no worries and an alpha-male attitude as well This is the Spider-Man that may[...]

This book also has a sense of humour that, at one point, even smacks of parody when, after being attacked, his mask seems to imitate stars, the cartoon character of Rorscach being hit over the head… Also, is that a now-closed down torrent site getting a shout out? A few months ago, thanks to Amazing Spider-Man, everyone[...]

 Just when everyone thought the Spider-Man #1 cover might grab the record, the 1990 Amazing Spider-Man #328 by Todd McFarlane cover beats it by a long shot — and becomes the new record holder for a piece of American comic book art, closing just moments ago at Heritage Auctions for $657,250. The new record was set[...]

BC reporter-in-the-field Chris Thompson just gave us the scoop about the Mad Artist's Edition from the IDW panel, now here's more Artist Edition News: Other announcements at IDW Artist's Edition panel were Gil Kane's AMAZING SPIDER-MAN and Mark Schultz's XENOZOIC TALES  Also, the release date for Will Eisner's THE SPIRIT is constantly getting revised. Kane collaborated on[...]

If a movie doesn't conspicuously reek, but doesn't absolutely rock either, a writer has to work hard to make his review interesting. I'm going to have to work pretty hard on this one. A lot of the early gossip I heard on The Amazing Spider-man, from colleagues who had attended the first screenings, suggested it was a[...]

Animated pre-program trailers are the bane of television. Network television. Just when you are getting to the emotional high point of a TV show, a little

Whereas Amazing Spider-Man pulled a bait and switch that I was miles away from guessing, and I feel so much more rewarded as a result, when it's all so logical And Dan Slott continues to pull off Avengers battles more convincing than in another, higher profile, event And, unlike the FF is taking the issues[...]

You can read all about it on the GI JOE tag. Further Reading: DARK KNIGHT RISES, PROMETHEUS, GI JOE: RETALIATION, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN, BRAVE, GI JOE Bleeding Cool Magazine Article By Brendon Connelly It all started in 1975 Before then, people would rather get some sun in the summertime, maybe even go swimming.But[...]