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The original art for the final page of Incredible Hulk #180, which features the first published appearance of Wolverine, has just sold at Heritage Auctions for $657,250. This 1974 Marvel comics page was drawn by Herb Trimpe, inked by Jack Abel, and scripted by Len Wein  Of historical interest, Wolverine's pose in that final introductory panel[...]

Sundown Syndrome: "The appearance of confusion, agitation, and other severely disruptive behavior coupled with inability to remain asleep, occurring

The annual Diamond Retailer Seminar is this weekend and Dynamite is rolling out a half-dozen announcements and we've got the first one here. The next

But why not be more explicit? And why change the line? In 2003, The Sci-Fi Channel announced they were to make a TV series out of the comic. Then in June Waterman Entertainment optioned the series for a movie, with the initial plan being to start production in December 2011. At which point, Marvel Comics registered a number of trademarks for Strikeforce[...]

DC Comics has Royals: Masters Of War, as royal family superheroics go But this looks a very different kettle of fish… Imperial. Steven T Seagle teams up with artist for a bromantic comedy with hero chops in IMPERIAL, coming this August from Man of Action and Image Comics Seagle teases, "It's a buddy book with serious commitment[...]

I can imagine that kids wouldn't hesitate to ask for it, as it sits on the shelf at a comic store like a bright gleaming gem. There are only 8 issues in this delightful series, so jump on board this epic scale adventure from Boom! Studios! Julz Hendricks is a co-host of podcasts Panel 2 Panel,  as[...]

And if it's anything like last year, they are going to go fast. We start with the Shattered edition of Caliban #1 limited to only 750 copies. Then its two Crossed: Badlands #50 covers, one is Up In Smoke and the other is the Phoenix VIP exclusive. And finally we have the Pure Rage version of the[...]

And is that Stephanie Brown as Batgirl? And more besides???? Harley Quinn in the White House, a Bat army, a returning from the grave Green Arrow… A lot can happen in five years. We also have Frank Barbiere writing Superboy, and a bunch of creators I mentioned earlier today… Stephen Mooney on Grayson, Igor Lima on Green Lantern[...]

So you may have noticed that there's a Godzilla movie coming out. Well, in August, after everyone will have moved on from it and are obsessing about

Back at ComicsPRO in March, Dark Horse let retailers know that it would soon be kicking off its new 'Starting Points' program where each month key books would geared as jumping on points for new readers as the start of fresh major arcs on said books The first two to roll out in June previews,[...]

We mentioned this morning that Stephen Mooney would have a new project for DC Comics, possibly announced at Las Vegas, and probably for the August solicitations I just don't know what. We also namedropped Igor Lima, Daniel H Wilson, Javier Garron, Jedd Dougherty and Jim Califiore so it was looking a bit Earth 2-y. Well, we've just been given a[...]

Yesterday, we ran a Swipe File piece based on Cartoon Brew's fine observational skills regarding the Jeff Koons stainless steel Popeye statue that sold for $28,200,00 and its similarity to a Dark Horse Comics Popeye toy from a few years ago, part of a set that sold for $40 then and about $75 now. Though if[...]

Amazon fishing can be fraught with problems. Sometimes you just don't know what's been entered wrongly, mixed up with another listing or just plain wrong.

But, from my own research, I think we can expect an announcement shortly that Stephen Mooney, of Half Past Danger and the CSI: Dying In The Gutters comic that killed me off, is to work on a new project for DC Comics. Announced at the Las Vegas Diamond Retailer Summit maybe? He's not alone Other folk more[...]

DC Collectibles have announced on their blog that there will be a New52 Hawkman figure coming out soon. It seems that this particular figure has been a

But I think we pulled it off. BB: What is next for Rob Williams? RW: My creator-owned series with D'israeli, ORDINARY, launches May 28th from Titan Comics THE ROYALS: MASTERS OF WAR is currently running from Vertigo, by myself and Si Coleby I have a few Marvel and DC things on the way that aren't announced yet,[...]

Those invited to attend and critique students' work included editors and creators from a variety of comics and graphic novels publishers as well as some comics media folks like myself. Little did I realize that these hopeful students were graduating in less than 24 hours! It brought quite an upbeat buzz to the event, which was[...]

This is how the company describes the film: Comics in Focus: Chris Claremont's X-Men offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse at how a single comic book title was transformed into the biggest franchise in comic book history, thanks largely to the efforts of one writer, Chris Claremont. Amongst interviews with comics luminaries, the critically-acclaimed documentary details the genesis of[...]

Jeff Koons has created a six-and-a-half foot, two thousand pound, stainless steel statue of Popeye, auctioned for $28,200,000 by Sothebys to casino owner

In September, DC Comics are publishing forty-one one-shots based on the New 52 books, taking the characters and looking what they get up to in five years time And giving every book a 3D cover with a 3D price to boot. Well, Marvel clearly wanted some of that… and since they had a weekly series in[...]

Fred Van Lente is at the helm of the series and unlike the other three titles, this one is getting a special #0 issue in honor of Dynamite's 10th Anniversary. BRYON BREWER: Fred, Magnus: Robot Fighter #4 is not even off the printing press and we already have a Zero Issue here? Wassup with that? FRED VAN[...]

By Jared Cornelius Welcome back to Typing on The Dead: Bleeding Cool’s Walking Dead recap column.  In the aftermath of All Out War, we seem to have an All

His suggestion for the fourth arc was just a couple of sentences but it gave me everything I needed to know exactly what I wanted to write. DD: Thief of Thieves is a really cool long-form heist story that doesn't really have too many peers in modern comics in the sense that it is ongoing and[...]

I've been a fan of Valerie D'Orazio's writing since the days of her Occasional Superheroine blog. It wasn't that it was just a vicious attack on the

Fade Out, the new comic from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, is coming our from Image in August. 40 pages, $3.50.  Here's the bumf. An intricate and

This is Dustin Nguyen's Catwoman on a motorcycle. Which has been defined further for a statue. And has given us this. But does the final version trigger

Source of so many jokes about superheroes wearing their underwear over their trousers, the new costume caused headlines and much fan bitterness. Now the upcoming Superman writer Geoff Johns, CCO of DC Comics, is known for a more conservative approach to the icons He brought back Hal Jordan, he brought back Barry Allen, he put Teen[...]

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale 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! I'm going[...]

Except why be so coy about it now? Are there legal aspects to using Strikeforce Morituri in current Marvel comics, that you have to fudge the issue a little by changing a few things to get it past the lawyers?Marvel have gone through a spate of registering trademarks on the comic – and only just. They[...]

This allows the characters to have certain "attributes" stand out. She posits that our greater ability to segment superhero bodies through linework these days has led to the "no undies" effect, which impacts even our current Superman comics, and artists have more of a choice in whether to go with classic design or not Check out[...]