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DC And Marvel Ch-Ch-Changes – 'Stomp Out Bullying Variant Covers' Getting Stomped?
In October, Marvel solicited ten comic books with "Stomp Out Bullying" variant covers. Captain America #25, Avengers #36, Amazing Spider-Man #7, Rocket Raccoon #4, Legendary Star-Lord #4, Guardians Of The Galaxy #20, Hulk #7, Inhuman #7, All-New X-Men #33 and Uncanny X-Men #27. However retailers have been told that All-New X-Men #33, Amazing Spider-Man #7 and Uncanny[...]
DC Comics To Run Hallowe'en Themed Variant Covers For October (UPDATE)
DC Comics gave their good friends at Buzzfeed the first look at the themed variant cover programme in October, to follow up on the Bombshell, Batman 75th Anniversary and Selfie themed variant covers And it appears to be a little Hallowe'en themed… such as the Wonder Woman #35 by Aaron Lopresti above… UPDATE: And now from[...]
DC's Bombshell Covers Top This Week's Advance Reorders
But the Bombshell variant covers of Detective Comics and Action Comics have topped the charts, ahead of all the Original Sin issues and Harley Quinn issues Nailbiter has clearly been a hit with retailers, upping orders on issue 2 and the reprint of 1 Woods didn't do badly either And Futures End #5 is the[...]
Swipe File: Original Sin And Bangkok's Top Charoen Optical
  These are the variant covers to the upcoming Original Sin Marvel event series running through the summer.   #1 by Steve McNiven, #2 by Agustin Alessio, #3 by Stephanie Hans, #4 by Butch Guice, #5 by Marco Checchetto, #6 by Paul Renaud, #7 by Mike McKone, #8 by Jung-Sik Akn. On the moon, the dead body[...]
Retailer Quits Phantom Group Over Concerns About Religious Content Of Jesus Island
Bleeding Cool recently reported how the Phantom Group of retailers, which negotiate shared exclusive cover variants to be shared among themselves, had worked out a deal where they would receive a whole exclusive comic for a period of time, including an exclusive cover, and how the first of its kind would be Jesus Island. As things[...]
Cover Variance: X-Men Homage To The Avengers – And Vice Versa
This is for a comic already scheduled to have seven covers. They can only be ordered five covers at a time, the first five showing the X-Men reenacting Avengers covers, and the second five with Avengers reenacting X-Men covers. These are added to the Simone Bianchi variant (1:50) Simone Bianchi Sketch variant (1:100) and Alessio variant (1:75),[...]
Marvel Publishes Eminem Variant For… Something
In The Punisher officially, and in Wanted unofficially. Looks like something else might be up.  Retailers will all receive one copy of an Eminem-variant covered comic for free, to coincide with the release of his new… something. As to which comic, and when, we should find out later this week. Eminem is a bit of a comic book[...]
Cover Variance: Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D Covers Spread Across Marvel Comics
variant covers in November And just enough time for retailers to up their orders to qualify for them… All-New X-Men #19 (on-sale 11/27/13) ·         Guardians of the Galaxy #9 (on-sale 11/13/13) ·         Iron Man #18 (on-sale 11/06/13) ·         Nova #10 (on-sale 11/20/13) ·         Superior Spider-Man #22 (on-sale 11/20/13) ·         Uncanny Avengers #14 (on-sale 11/27/13) ·         Uncanny X-Men #14 (on-sale 11/20/13) [...]
My Little Pony Equestria Girls Debuts In Exclusive IDW Book
  IDW Publishing has announced a San Diego Comic Con exclusive special edition variant cover for My Little Pony #9 featuring the fan-favorite pony Glitter. To the delight of fans, Hasbro has announced that it will release a MY LITTLE PONY 2013 special edition pony, inspired by the popular DJ PON-3 character at San Diego Comic-Con Adding[...]
Cover Variance: 12 Reasons For A Death Sentence For My Little Pony's Guardians
Here's the Forbidden Planet variant cover for the first issue of Titan Comics' Death Sentence It features VERITY… A micro-series variant of My Little Pony for Larry's Comics and Jetpack Comics. Limited-Editions Comix have an Adi Granov variant Angela for Guardians Of The Galaxy… And 12 Reasons To Die #2 has a Johnny Ryan variant modelled after[...]
A Few X-Men #1 Variant Covers On A Friday Morning (UPDATE)
Which naturally means variant covers Here are a few, including one from Limited Edition Comix in the UK, raising money for The Sick Children's Trust, from Ed McGuinness limited to 3500 copies. The Phantom cover by Humberto Ramos. The Hastings chain have their version by Kevin Wada which has a rather Downton Abbey/Brideshead Revisited feel. Midtown Comics have[...]
Skottie Young's Ultron, The Playground Bully
Wolverine, Emma Frost, Invisible Woman, Taskmaster, Beast, She-Hulk, Luke Cage, Spider-Man, and Moon Knight may be the team of MArvel superheroes tasked to take down the Age Of Ultron. But there's a bunch more characters in this playground fight, as depicted by Skottie Young in his variant cover for the first issue. No supper for Ultron! [...]
DC Comics Get Mad Magazine Variant Covers In April For 60th Anniversary
The 60th birthday for MAD Magazine in April. And cartoonists Sergio Aragonés, Al Jaffee, Peter Kuper, Tom Richmond and more will be will be drawing variant tiered covers for certain DC titles. So the availability of Justice League Of America #3, Justice League #3 and Batman #19 Mad variant covers will depend upon the lowest DC New[...]
Amazing Spider-Man #700 Ditko Cover Now Available With Second Print
We recently reported that the Steve Ditko Variant for Amazing Spider-Man #700 was selling on eBay for over $1200 and copies are still selling for over a thousand dollars. But it seems that Marvel have a few spare copies, and will be distributing them with every 250 copies that retailers order of the second print[...]
More Joe Quesada One In A Hundred And Skottie Young Baby Variant Covers…
Here are a few new variant covers from Marvel… with exactly the way you might be able to get copies for yourself. The 1:100 Savage Wolverine cover by Joe Quesada The 1:100 Superior Spider-Man cover by Joe Quesada Skottie Young Baby variant available to retailers who exceed 125% of their orders for AVX VS #3 wth order[...]
Deadpool Takes On The Justice League Of America
Deadpool continues to have some fun with the Justice League Of America 52 state cover variants, with this cover for Uncanny X-Men #1… "Ornithology is one of America's greatest past times," mentioned Senior Editor Nick Lowe "With Inauguration day and Spring just around the corner – we could think of no better way than to celebrate[...]
New Skottie Young Baby Covers For Marvel, And NOW2
February brings a batch of new Skottie Young "Baby Variant" covers, tiered to certain order levels, from Marvel Or the "Young Baby" variants, which still sounds weird. Retailers order Fearless Defenders #1 and Secret Avengers #1 can order extra Baby covers if their initial orders match those of AVX VS #6. Nova #1 has its Baby level[...]
The My Little Pony Ghost Variant Cover
Whooo. Available at the same comic stores that got the Walking Dead and Saga ghost variant covers… Whooo. Available at the same comic stores that got the Walking Dead and Saga ghost variant covers… Whooo. Available at the same comic stores that got the Walking Dead and Saga ghost variant covers… Whooo. Available at the same comic stores that[...]
Ghost Variant Cover For Saga #7 By Paul Pope, Out Tomorrow (UPDATE – IN FULL)
A "Ghost Variant" variant cover, commissioned through some secretive process and made available to a select group of stores, only to be revealed on the day it comes out. Or on the day before, if Bleeding Cool gets there first. And it seems that, following Walking Dead #101, the second Ghost Variant will be Saga #7. The third[...]