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Next week's Diamond Previews has Michael Dialynas' Zawa + The Belly of the Beast #1 on its front cover, a fable of a mountain spirit who feasts on industrial pollution and the world she discovers when she finds nourishment in nature With Diamond Select Toys' The Walking Dead Gallery: Michonne PVC Diorama on the back[...]

Printwatch: Dark Web #1, Miles Morales: Spider-Man #1, and X-Treme X-Men #1 are all going back to a second printing from Marvel Comics, all out on the 1st of February 2023. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Printwatch: Image Comics is putting the[...]

Opus Comic hasn't been around for that long, and they're already about to achieve every comic book publisher's dream: a comic consisting of nothing but covers For years, publishers have struggled with how to overcome the need to produce actual stories when all collectors really care about are the covers But with Frank Frazetta's Death[...]

How much in sales are lost by simply not having a comic title on the cover? With so many different covers for the same issue, it is tough to keep up on what is in stock or not by simply looking at the comics Often times the characters that are in a comic or are supposed[...]

In October, that means lots of covers – sixteen in total, if you include different art variants (not including any virgin trade dress-free covers) from IDW, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Titan Comics, Boom Studios and Dynamite (trying to put their Covergate scandal behind them) We've also thrown in the cover to the Marvel Peach Momoko[...]

In October, that means lots of covers – thirteen in total, if you include different art variants (not including any virgin trade dress-free covers) from DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Titan Comics, Boom Studios and Dynamite (trying to put their Covergate scandal behind them) Might there be more news to come? Here's a look at what[...]

Image Comics is issuing a new Mirka Andolfo cover for Ludocrats #4 with an FOC date for the 27th of July and published on the 19th of August. Mirka Andolfo Ludocrats #4 cover. Marvel Comics has two new Black Widow #1 covers featuring the Marvel Cinematic Universe versions of the Black Widow on one and Taskmaster on[...]

The blood red version will be a special, deluxe variant, printed on thick card stock, with silver foiling and spot-gloss highlights, and will sell for $9.99.   Vampire: The Masquerade is co-written by Tim Seeley, Tini Howard, and Blake Howard, with art by Dev Pramanik and Nathan Gooden, with colors by Addison Duke, letters by AndWorld Design,[...]

He will be signing ten numbered copies that will be numbered, and has already signed on to do covers for the remaining four issues of the miniseries Callahan's latest cover for Source Point Press' No Heroine fetched $120+ on eBay, so make sure to get this one early Cult of Dracula is available now for pre-order[...]

Bleeding Cool has been notified that one of our favourite comic book artists Meghan Hetrick is soon to go full steam ahead tonight on some Vampirella covers for Dynamite Entertainment, to be used as FOC covers in the future. Meghan Hetrick already posted some early teasers to social media But she is then is going to[...]

Dynamite especially use tiered covers, as well as black-and-white, virgin and tinted versions of covers, to encourage retailers to order a few more copies to qualify for these rarer, harder-to-find varieties And we always like to take a look… and it seems that Vault Comics are joining in too. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #14 FOC SLAYER[...]

Publishers like to reveal the existence of new variant covers to upcoming comic books the week that retailers have to make their Final Orders as a way to goose those numbers up a tad, the last chance for retailers to do so before publication And this week we have examples from Image, Boom and Dynamite,[...]

Available at New York Comic-Con from Marvel Comics and Diamond Previews, on sale from retailers at the show, will be these exclusive covers Including the Mike Deodato cover for Marvel Comics #1001 featuring the Masked Rider, to get his own series in 2020 All retailers can order these – but retailers attending the show will[...]

Marvel Comics are making a larger that usual number of comics out in July available for retailer exclusive variant covers But also – and I think this is new – Marvel Comics is inviting retailers to suggest any other titles that they may want exclusive covers for Traditionally, Marvel Comics offer anything from 6 to[...]

Daredevil #1 and 2 hit stores in February and Daredevil #3 in March, but though all three have been solicited, we've only seen Julian Totino Tedesco's cover for Daredevil #1 so far, along with this cover solicited and still listed on PreviewsWorld for Daredevil #3: But it looks like that was a placeholder, as Marvel has revealed[...]

Earlier today, Bleeding Cool revealed the cover for Heroes in Crisis #7, which featured the corpse of Poison Ivy, who died while writing what appeared to

Bleeding Cool contributor Ian Melton is at this year's Image Expo, keeping on top of their latest announcements, and he's just sent in some of their exclusive covers Keep an eye out for more news and updates throughout the day. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left:[...]

Never a slouch in the promotional department, Valiant has been outdoing even themselves with a slew of tongue-in-cheek gimmicks in service of the publisher's forthcoming Quantum and Woody! series from writer Daniel Kibblesmith and artist Kano. So far, we've seen "Extreme Ultra-Foil" shelf covers swiped from Jim Lee's WildCATS #2; "The Most Variant Cover of All[...]

Check out these upcoming DC Comics covers for September shipping titles As ever, you may have seen some of them You won't have seen most of them… https://twitter.com/YJ1Future/status/895475644800290816 Hang on, hang on, I'll get to them! Appreciate the keenness, though. Nightwing #29 by Casey Jones. Nightwing #29 by… not by Stjepan Sejic. Nightwing #28 by Casey Jones. Batman: The Dawnbreaker #1[...]

A few upcoming DC Comics covers for August shipping titles As ever, you may have seen some of them You won't have seen most of them… Dark Nights: Metal #1 variant covers, by Jim Lee and Andy Kubert. With the variant cover by John Romita Jr coming soon. Deathstroke #22 by Shane Davis and Michelle Delecki. Green Arrow #28 by[...]

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and

A few DC Comics variant covers I haven't seen around the place yet You may have But you probably haven't seen all of them… Suicide Squad #16 by Lee Bermejo. Mother Panic #6 by Eric Canete. Kamandi Challenge #4 by Carlos D'Anda. The Wild Storm #3 by Jim Lee and Scott Williams. The Batman/Shadow #1 by Riley Rossmo. The Batman/Shadow #1[...]

Thanks to the joy of eBay, and some fast fingered retailers, we can see some of the ComicsPRO retailer exclusive items given away by Marvel and DC Comics

Of late, Marvel Comics has been offering seven titles available for exclusive retailer variant covers, every month, more than any other publisher Indeed, possibly more than every other publisher combined. But as of March, it looks like that may be on the slide, as the publisher only offer a mere five comics, for retailer exclusive covers. They are[...]

Back at C2E2, Marvel Comics got plenty of press for announcing a line of variant covers for July, the Mighty Men Of Marvel, a tongue in cheek attempt to make up for some of the cheesecake over the years. Except… despite announcing the covers and which issues they would be variants for, the line never happened[...]

So, we all know that Frank Cho walked off Wonder Woman's variant covers after guarantees that writer Greg Rucka with whom Cho has shared a fractious relationship it seems, would not interfere with them were broken. You can see his fifth and sixth final covers below But he had sketches plans for future covers that were abandoned[...]

Bill Sienkiewicz is going to have a variant cover for every issue of the Rebirthed Harley Quinn.  Well, here's the first. Oh and here's Tim Sale's variant

Bleeding Cool has been reading the tea leaves. We threw out the first lot for being stale but we seem to have a hot tasty cup right now. It was the Jack

 Image Comics may no longer do retailer exclusive covers for their titles But they do event exclusive covers Such as for the launch of Jupiter's Legacy 2 and what Image Comics have dubbed "Millar Day" on June 29th Bleeding Cool broke that story back in XXX – but there's no news if Marvel will join[...]

Here you go folks, all the retailer exclusive variant covers for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink #1 – and where you can find them! The Comic Bug Siya Oum AWBC (Fried Pie) Paulina Ganucheau AWBC (Fried Pie Con) Hunter Clark Collector's Paradise Megan Hutchinson Ultimate Comics Janice Chu Newbury Comics Sara Kipin Dimension X Comics Scott Swade Dimension X Comics Scott Swade Super Fly[...]