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In March, Titan Comics will be publishing a new Independence Day comic book by Victor Gischler and Steve Scott to accompany the new movie out in June, And retailers will be able to commission special versions of the cover which will see their stores blown to smithereens. Of course this takes some time to arrange, so they are asking[...]

This is one of a number of covers Udon are using to relaunch Street Fighter Unlimited #1 in December, from  Ken Siu-chong and artist Joe Ng as well as Jim Zub and Edwin Huang. OCT151710  STREET FIGHTER UNLIMITED #1 CVR A (Story cover) OCT151711  STREET FIGHTER UNLIMITED #1 CVR B (Ultra Jam variant) OCT151712  STREET FIGHTER UNLIMITED #1 CVR C[...]

Neal Adams writes to Bleeding Cool, regarding the sale of his most famous comic book cover ever, currently up for auction on behalf of a private collector. The Green Lantern Green Arrow #76 cover (and subsequent series of books) changed the direction of comics when it was first published. That first cover set the tone of that change[...]

CBR said that "Titan Comics has exclusively shared with CBR every variant cover for the debut issue of the publisher's upcoming "Assassin's Creed" ongoing series, debuting October 14." But they were wrong They didn't notice one of the one they listed was missing As well as the eleven covers that got sent out over the weekend to[...]

Harley's Little Black Book will be December's DC Comics variant cover theme, featured on 10 DC Comics titles, which will all come in black opaque comic bags. These variant covers will ship in three versions. One features the finished, full-color artwork. The second features just the inked art in black and white. The third features just the pencil artwork, also[...]

We talked about it a bit here. Well the collection cover revealed here, is by another famous artist of the future, Darick Robertson, still best known for his work on Transmetropolitan. But referencing a famous scene from the past… …they call him Harold Lloyd? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDZ9NBcQzxwVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Harold Lloyd, Safety Last (1923), hanging from[...]

I've just seen my SHI cover, done to help raise money for Veteran Tickets Foundation (VetTix) – Hero's Wish, prepped for the auction I'm one of about 50 artists who did a blank cover drawing for the fund raiser What I did not consider is that the comics have all been graded and slabbed Which[...]

You should want that too. So he is putting every variant cover of the comic book he can on eBay in one go –  and there are three hours left on the clock Its just topped $600, here is the full list… WE CAN NEVER GO HOME 1 (first printing) A cover. WE CAN NEVER GO HOME 2 (first[...]

Jones and Amandla Stenberg. And here is her cover… The comic is in the new Diamond Previews, order code: SEP151580 Here are a couple of visual teases…   One of our more popular stories this week was that of Ashley A Woods announcing she was to be working for Marvel Comics[...]

When Black Mask approached us about having our own private variant they mentioned that they wanted homage covers to classic hip hop albums I spent some time with Google and my own record collection but nothing really stuck My next move was to actually read the book After reading the sample pdf, I immediately thought[...]

Don't count your chickens before they are hatched. Equally, don't post a retailer exclusive cover for Star Wars until it has been signed off by LucasFilm. Such as this cover for Legacy Comics by Adi Granov. Now pulled off their website And purchasers told, Unfortunately Lucasfilm did not approve of our Star Wars Shattered Empire #1 Legacy Edition Variant[...]

This is the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit cover for Journey To Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Star Wars: Shattered Empire It will be given away to retailer attendees to the Summit taking place before Baltimore Comic Con. Action Lab: Trancers #1 with B&W cover by Amanda Conner  01 Second Books: Paul Pope's The Fall of the House of West[...]

Here's a quick peek at Jhonen Vasquez's upcoming cover for Invader Zim #2 which, as we saw, has been doing rather well in the Advance Reorders. And here's a peek at what's to come… Here's a quick peek at Jhonen Vasquez's upcoming cover for Invader Zim #2 which, as we saw, has been doing rather well in[...]

Four Color Grails was a monthly exclusive variant cover subscription box, only containing exclusive variant covers, and at a far lower circulation than, say, Loot Crate And for $27 a month plus shipping, less for a longer subscription, that was very competitively priced against many other retailers prices for such books Indeed, just one could be flipped[...]

Here's the Fiona Staples variant cover for The Wicked + The Divine #11, just in time for FOC… While Jupiter's Circle #3 gets a couple of variants, both from Frank Quitely I understand that Death Sentence #1 London will be getting a Gifts For Geeks variant while Minions #1 will have a Books-A-Million variant. But for Secret Wars? Well, we[...]

Scott Campbell with colors by Nei Ruffino And Secret Wars #2 by Nick Bradshaw with colours by Edgar Delgado – and plenty of Storms! Clayton Crain's cover for Walking Dead #1 for attendees at Wizard World Comic Con Minneapolis, on May 1st to 3rd VIP attendees get a black and white sketch version as well. [...]

Jem & The Holograms #1 variant by Agnes Garbowska for ECCC And one by Amanda Conner for Yesteryear Comics. And also from Yesteryear for Invisible

Once upon a time, Peter David, working in sales at Marvel, handed out some preview copies of an upcoming issue of Alpha Flight to a bunch of retailers -

I did not think I could be more excited for his new massive monster comic Kaijumax from Oni Press. This is how wrong I was. While not representative of the insides, Bryan Lee O'Malley has created a "chibi"-style variant cover for the comic, showing the monstrous cast of the comic in a more adorable fashion… The book comes[...]

But depending on the results of charges against him, this could be Roc Upchurch's final cover of Rat Queens, the secondary cover to Rat Queens Special: Braga, written by Kurtis Wiebe and drawn by Tess Fowler, published today. And for those who asked, Upchurch is still listed as co-owner of the comic book. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics,[...]

It may take a little while to collect your complete Star Wars #1 cover collection, especially considering Tidewater Comic Con, Virginia, where this little number will be exclusive, isn't until May 2015… 148 days to go. But it's cover #61 that we've identified, so we are adding it to the list! It may take a little while[...]

ThinkGeek have the sixtieth cover we've been able to identify for the launch of Marvel's Star Wars #1 by Pasqual Ferry. We'll be adding it to the big list.. any more out there folks? ThinkGeek have the sixtieth cover we've been able to identify for the launch of Marvel's Star Wars #1 by Pasqual Ferry. We'll be adding it to the[...]

An exclusive cover for Mile High Comics… And for Third Eye Comics… Takes us to 57 covers in total So far Will we make it to a hundred? Adding to the big list… An exclusive cover for Mile High Comics… And for Third Eye Comics… Takes us to 57 covers in total[...]

So DC Comics have all these movie cover variants based on Warner Bros films for March….   And a swipe file for each and every individual cover would be ridiculous, as it is clear what they are[...]

And they esitaimet it could sell for a quarter of a million. Though oddly the auction house states, Todd McFarlane's iconic Spider-Man image, featuring the only cover appearance of the web-slinger sporting the black Venom symbiote suit, offered at Heritage Auctions Beverly Hills, Nov 21, 2014 Which is, not true, he wore the symbiote  suit on the cover[...]

This is a variant cover of Daredevil #8, shipping to all Diamond retail accounts, one per store It features a can of the SK Energy drink with Daredevil livery upon it What's going on here? To Wikipedia! Street King is a flavored energy drink created by rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and Pure Growth Partners. Jackson partnered with Pure Growth[...]

Such as this one. And the DVD cover for Red Reaper  That is… quite some similarity After the X-Men Swipe the other day, what's going on right now? In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox[...]

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 September featuring the Death Of Wolverine, well it would be a shame not to. But what the hell is "holo foil"? And can I use it to wrap a[...]

Another Tintin cover will be auctioned May 24th  by Parisiene auction house, Arcturial. Previously, one cover had sold for $1.6 million. The new auction is for the famous Black Island cover It's possible the estimates below may be a little on the low side. The inked line art and color guide (created by Hergé himself) will be sold separately. The[...]

Bleeding Cool highlighted what we called "a modicum of controversy" over the Cartoon Network-comissioned Subscription cover to Powerpuff Girls #6 by Mimi Yoon. ICV2 got through to Cartoon Network who have now told them that the cover has been withdrawn and will be replaced. and received the following reply indicating the variant cover, which was intended for[...]