Tag Archives: hardcover

Marvel To Reduce Premiere Hardcover Line

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Rich Johnston

When Marvel’s trade paperback collection begain in earnest about twelve years ago, there were a few distinct formats. The phonebook, a black and white collection of thirty or so issues, the colour trade paperback with around six issues, the hardcover …

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The Marvel AR Wolverine Vs Captain America Fight Of The AVX Hardcover… And CM Punk

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Towards the end of this article is an exclusive piece of Marvel AR from the Avengers Vs X-Men hardcover. If you would like to experience it properly, with the volume in question, then turn away now. But if you want …

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Tuesday Runaround – Kick Assed

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Rich Johnston

GlitchWatch: Kick Ass 2 hardcover gets a 50% discount from Amazon UK… a greater discount than many retailers pay… VolunteerWatch: The kind of industry story that will warm your heart. Imagine this: 300 people—some on foot, some in vehicles including …

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Archaia To Publish Hardcovers For Free Comic Book Day Every Year

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Rich Johnston

It was the clear winner of Free Comic Book Day. Depsite thousands and thousands of copies being given away for free, it sells on eBay for up to $13. The Mouse Guard hardcover was a hit, with six short original …

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Where To Get Your Free Comic Book Day Comics Online – Mouse Guard, Buffy, Star Wars And Finding Gossamyr

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Rich Johnston

For the Buffy/Aliens/Alabaster Wolves/The Guild comic, click here, and sign up to Dark Horse digital if you haven’t yet. Available until the end of May. For the Star Wars/Alabaster Wolves/Serenity comic, click here. Same rules apply. David Petersen will be …

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DC’s Binding For Jack Kirby “A Significant Improvement”

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Bleeding Cool has been following the comparison between Marvel and DC on the manufacture of their hardcovers, and managed to wring a promise out of Dan DiDio that DC’s process would be improved in the near future. And with New …

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Six Uses For A Mouse Guard Free Comic Book Day Hardcover

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Rich Johnston

It is an impressive volume for no money…

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Marvel, The $4.99 20 Page Comic And Amazon

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Rich Johnston

With books such as Marvel’s Wolverine And The X-Men HC collecting four issues of 20 page comics (rather than the seven issues on the Amazon’s listing), shipping yesterday for a whopping $19.99, some readers are in revolt. Not so much …

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Punisher Hardcover Delivers Less Than It Promises

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Here’s the new Punisher Premier Hardcover, just bought by a Bleeding Cool reader. Promising much! From the back cover;   And the Amazon listing for same.   But on unsealing and opening the book and then reading the indicia Which …

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Now Infinite Crisis Gets An Omnibus – And The New 52 Class Divide

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Rich Johnston

It seems only yesterday that we discovered that the Invisibles Omnibus was on the way. Now we see Infinite Crisis Omnibus is on the way too. Collecting Day of Vengeance #1-6, Day of Vengeance: Infinite Crisis Special #1, Rann/Thanagar War …

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The Walking Dead Novel – Jay Bonansinga Interviewed By Greg Baldino With Audio Book Excerpt

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool How do you follow up on someone else’s masterwork? It’s one of the cornerstones of fan-culture: What would YOU have done? What do YOU think happened next? It’s all well and good as fan-fic …

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Could Retailers Save Money Ordering The DC New 52 Hardcover From Amazon?

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Rich Johnston

As Heidi MacDonald said when she got her review copy “this thing is heavy. And big.” The New 52 DCU compilation hardcover featuring all 52 of September’s first issues plus extra gubbins ships in a couple of weeks. But here’s …

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200 Copies Of Neonomicon Signed By Alan Moore And Jacen Burrows – Not Available Through Diamond

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Rich Johnston

While British people of late have found a number of opportunities to get their comics signed by Alan Moore, Americans… haven’t. Alan shows no sign of getting a passport again and seems content to stay in Northampton, with occasional forays …

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Inside The Dynamite Art Of Alex Ross

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Ten days ago, Bleeding Cool told you about The Dynamite Art Of Alex Ross. Well now we have a few pictures from the inside to go with the cover…

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The New Story Pages In We3 Hardcover

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Today, DC/Vertigo publish the We3 hardcover by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. And, in order to justify the hardcover price, they have added ten new story pages and a load of sketches in the back. Four pages have been added …

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Numbercrunching The New York Times Bestseller List For Comics

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Through Diamond, in comic stores nationally, we know that Marvel dominates the shelves. DC has begun to close the gap between the two of late, but it is still rather large. But in bookstores it seems a little different. Take …

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A Quick Flick Through Rob Liefeld And Robert Kirkman’s The Infinite In Hardcover At San Diego Comic Con

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Rich Johnston

It’s out. It will be at the Robert Kirkman booth that takes up one whole side of the Image booth. And copies will sell. Walking out of the show, I received several envious requests as to where I had gotten …

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Fantagraphics To Publish Floyd Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Rich Johnston

While Boom! are already collecting some of Floyd Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse comics, Fantagraphics will be going back to the man’s original work on the character, the newspaper strip from the thirties. Taking over from Walt Disney himself, Gottfredson  reinvented Mickey …

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