hardcover Archives

Zenith Hardcover To Ship In About Two Weeks
  The limited edition Zenith hardcover from Rebellion, planned to be sent out to 1000 buyers in December will be shipping a couple of months early, I'm told In two short weeks Rebellion got the copies early from the printers so will be sending them out early. After all, the Sláine 30th Anniversary hardback art book[...]
Marvel To Reduce Premiere Hardcover Line
The phonebook, a black and white collection of thirty or so issues, the colour trade paperback with around six issues, the hardcover Marvel Masterworks that had been running for some time and the oversized hardcover taking in around twelve issues. Then Marvel introduced the Premiere hardcover, basically the colour trade paperback issued in hardcover with a[...]
Tuesday Runaround – Kick Assed
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 cars, trucks, a motorcycle with a sidecar, and a wheelchair—all showing up at Source Comics and Games[...]
Archaia To Publish Hardcovers For Free Comic Book Day Every Year
The Mouse Guard hardcover was a hit, with six short original stories promoting Archaia's books Every other publisher should have been so jealous looking at it. And it seems to have worked Archaia's orders for their big expensive fat harcover books are up across the board So the company has made a committment. That every year, material[...]
DC's Binding For Jack Kirby "A Significant Improvement"
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 Teen Titans Omnibus Vol 2, it seemed that this was indeed happening. And with the Jack[...]
Marvel, The $4.99 20 Page Comic And Amazon
X-Men hardcover, collecting the series and its spinoff, over 500 pages, knocked back from $75 to $39. Or the Uncanny X-Force: Otherworld hardcover, which would be five comics for $24.99, now a more reasonable $13 Same with Moon Knight Vol 2, Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 2, and Wolverine Goodbye Chinatown. It's a similar (though better value) story for[...]
Punisher Hardcover Delivers Less Than It Promises
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 is reflected in the contents Is this a transgression of the Trade Description Act or whatever the American equivalent is?[...]
Now Infinite Crisis Gets An Omnibus – And The New 52 Class Divide
Who gets the hardcover, who gets the soft… here's how it's breaking down.  Hardcovers:  Paperback:  Batman Swamp Thing Action Comics Batwoman Green Lantern Wonder Woman Batman And Robin Justice League Detective Comics  Batgirl Catwoman Justice League International Animal Man Batwing Superboy Red Lanterns Green Arrow Demon Knights Stormwatch Suicide Squad Frankenstein OMAC Legion Of Superheroes Mister Terrific Hawk And Dove Deathstroke Grifter       [...]
Could Retailers Save Money Ordering The DC New 52 Hardcover From Amazon?
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 the thing It's currently on sale at Amazon.com for $90, as opposed to the $150 retail price That's a whopping 40% discount. Now normally retailers will get a larger discount than[...]
Inside The Dynamite Art Of Alex Ross
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...
The New Story Pages In We3 Hardcover
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 to the first issue, giving us a new introduction to Doctor Rosanne Berry, in which we[...]
Fantagraphics To Publish Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse
Volume One, Race To Death Valley will be 260 pages in thick hardcover format and available in May. 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,[...]