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He runs The Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con And he now writes a weekly column for Bleeding Cool. In 1956 the two-year old Comics Code Authority (CCA) tried its best to stop EC Comics from publishing a particularly offensive comic book Founded in 1954, as part of the Comics Magazine Association Of America the[...]

She's unaware of Barry's strong feelings for her. Iris West and her father, both adoptive and real (from the 30th century) in the comics, were white. Which means, while it is likely that Barry Allen will be white, with those surnames, when Wally West, Iris' nephew, Kid Flash and eventual inheritor of the Flash name turns up,[...]

WHat gave you the idea that we said he was? — Tom Brennan (@Brennanator) December 31, 2013 Tombstone has previously been portrayed as an albino black man Had things changed? @hermanos Her mom is not black, but you're right that the colorist did not receive proper color reference from me. — Tom Brennan (@Brennanator) December 31, 2013 Look for a[...]

He runs The Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con And he now writes a weekly column for Bleeding Cool. I was going to write 'The Top Ten Black Superheroes Created By Black People" as a bookend to my article "The Top Ten Black Superheroes Created By White Guys and Louise Simonson." "Oh no!" said the millions[...]

WHY DOES SUPERMAN NEED A MASK? When children's hospital window cleaners cosplay… STAN ALIVE Heidi MacDonald goes to the Stan Lee Kids Universe launch event. The Kids UNiverse is produced in conjunction with 1821 Productions and thus far includes two titles: the very promising sounding KITTENS VS MONSTERS by Dani Jones and a game for the ioS platform called[...]

On Saturday, January 12th from 10am to 4pm, The Schomburg Center For Research in Black Culture of Harlem, New York, will be launching their first Black Comic Festival. It is described as "a dynamic festival for young people that celebrates the rich tradition of black superheroes and features a screening of the film "White Scripts and[...]

Your first black Republican president. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London Who are preparing to launch new issues of two of the best British Independent Comics anthologies – The Strumpet and Ink+Paper. In the new issue of Daredevil: End Of Days out today, by Brian Bendis, Klaus Janson, and Bill Sienkiewicz, Ben Urich trudges the streets[...]

The 12-page preview comic features a predominantly black cover inside a black envelope – hence its name "Valiant Black" – and saw one copy distributed to each of Valiant's top 500 customers Although only a week old, the issue has sparked significant back market interest. More than a dozen have been sold so far on ebay,[...]

The findings were awful but not unexpected as the Big Two have long been dominated by a culture of nepotism that routinely excludes women and non-White men, particularly Black/African-American men. Clearly, breaking into Marvel or DC is insanely difficult and few people of any background manage to get close; but the fact that there are less[...]

Called Valiant Black Retailers have already been asking each other what it is. Well, not only does Bleeding Cool know, but we also have a copy And an iPad camera on which to open it to see what is what And getting all the answers we need. Unveiling… for the first time… Valiant Black. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9iR5AFCBDU[/youtube]   [...]

Now the largest single shareholder of Disney, he has been making his prescence known in the company, and the man who has tried to hide of late is in danger of being dragged into the open. Known at Marvel for looking after the pennies, and managing with as few employees as possible, with regular rounds of[...]

Anyway, this is much like the BBC Sherlock and the NBC Elementary in that it takes the characters and cast of Sherlock Holmes and transfers them to the modern day. The difference here, and let's be honest, probably its selling point, is that the main characters are black Sherlock Holmes was always an urban story, now[...]

  Well I guess it is Super Black History Month In a preview of Gene Ha's work from an upcoming issue of Action Comics #9, the DC Source has shown us that the Superman of a parallel Earth isn't the old white guy you might once have known, but a rather buff black man. Grant Morrison recently[...]

Racebending Morgan Edge The Superman badguy media mogal, played by Rutger Hauer in Smallville gets blackwashed. 2 Clark Kent Gets Cuckolded Not only are Lois and Clark not married… But her current sleeping partner, if he married Lois, she'd be Lois Carroll And Alice In Wonderland fans will demand that this happen But also Lois and Clark… … were never[...]

Marvel would like to remind you that the press have been talking about other comics as well as the DC Relaunch. Such as a certain Ultimate Spider-Man #1,

Someone in England wrote this as a headline, because Sara had said, and I agree but she said it in broken English so it was somehow misconstrued even though it was clear as day, said "I just want to live in a world where it doesn't matter if you're black or gay, you're just a[...]

From the preview of Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #2 shipping in October, with art from Sara Pichelli, we see what appear to be at least two new powers from

The "Miles Variant" edition of Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1, drawn by Sara Pichelli, coming out in September.

We have a Disney black princess now Is it time for a Disney Blatino Spider-Man in their schedules? Or maybe, just maybe, we could look to a season two replacement? (UPDATE: I've had assurance that it will be Peter Parker under the mask in the upcoming cartoon As for season two, who can say…) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOx-7Iq0rv4[/youtube] [...]

The Black Nerd Ranter has something to say… I wonder what the topic is. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUziaJzmnO4[/youtube] The Black Nerd Ranter has something to say… I wonder what the topic is. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUziaJzmnO4[/youtube] The Black Nerd Ranter has something to say… I wonder what the topic is. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUziaJzmnO4[/youtube] [...]

"Half black, half hispanic? What sort of origin story does he have? Was he a black guy bitten by a radiocative hispanic? Or a hispanic guy bitten by a radioactive black guy? It doesn't make sense." Enjoy… dirty foreigners may need to go here first. Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive [...]

The country's going to hell in a handcart, that sort of thing. Well today it outdid itself. Here's the quote from artist Sara Pichelli from Monday night's USA Today announcement that the new Ultimate Spider-Man lead would be Miles Morales, a young black/latino man. "Maybe sooner or later a black or gay – or both – hero will[...]

I don't believe that for a second, I believe that this is something that Brian Bendis has been working towards for a long time, we know now that Brian and his wife have two adopted black children, the youngest four and a half months old, which is also around the time Bendis said he would[...]

It makes my black, weight challenged, age impaired butt feel so warm and fuzzy LOL! Peace to all (If things keep up the way they are going in Washington, D.C we will soon find out that we're all brothers regardless of race,[...]

Tonight, it is possible that Marvel will pre-announce the identity of the new Ultimate Spider-Man to the Associated Press, or similar. It is possible he will be a young African American, potentially the Ben Reilly scientist character who has stores the late Peter Parker's DNA and that's certainly what Bleeding Cool has been speculating. But that's all,[...]

Is it or isn't it? It is, isn't it? No it isn't. Is it? Isn't it? That's the question. Does  Spider-Man, in this preview for Ultimate Fallout #4 featuring

This will be the first appearance of the new Ultimate Spider-Man, a new individual under the suit. The issue in question will ship in a polybag, albeit a clear one, so as not to spoil the surprise. Though no doubt, Marvel will tell the USA Today and the New York Times on Monday evening, to spoil the[...]

This is the new look for Invincible by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley, coming next year. With a new character, seemingly, in the blue and gold.

Andrew Wheeler writes for Bleeding Cool; Spot the odd one out in this list: Black Goliath (1975) Black Racer (1971) Black Widow (1964) Black Lightning (1977) Power Man (1972). The answer I'm looking for is, of course, Black Widow She's not black at all! Like Black Canary, Black Widow predates the 70s trend for using the word[...]

So what are the plot secrets behind Ed Brubaker's CAPTAIN AMERICA #600 and REBORN #1? Why are Marvel so sure they'll get major international publicity about to the extent that they won't release any solicitation information until the coverage is received? And why is #600 being released two days early to match up with said[...]