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Hush – and Bane – are a practical and pragmatic solution to that dream but has lost the reason behind those actions. And, also hitting each other in the face with big POW sound effects, and gloriously kinetic noodly detail from John Romita ensuring that everything lands and you can feel the crunch. Tom King's Batman, ladies[...]

This week sees the release of the much-anticipated, rather-delayed and slightly-censored, Superman: Year One #1 by Frank Miller, John Romita and Danny Miki, the second new release from DC Comics' Black Label line, intended to be for mature readers superhero comics but, in the wake of Batman Damned, going through a bit of a change[...]

Prices were very strong for all of the books: 1.5; $7,699.00 ow/white pages 2.5; $16,000 crm/ow pages 4.0; $27,000 crm/ow pages, small amount of dried glue on cover 5.5; $36,509.00  crm/ow pages 5.5; $17,422.00 crm/ow pages, small color touch on cover Amazing Spider-Man #31 9.6 $8,200 white pages Avengers 1 7.5; $8,200; ow/w pages Avengers 4 9.2; $7,216; ow/w pages Fantastic Four… #1 7.0 $25,055[...]

Bleeding Cool told you about the missing John Romita Jr pencils to a cover to Dark Nights: Metal #2 that FedEx claim to have delivered to Richard Friend to be inked, but seems not to have been received. But as he said, he was able to work from a previous low res scan and rebuild a[...]

This DC Artist Masterclass video was filmed during San Diego Comic-Con and features some of DC's top artists: Amanda Conner, Tony Daniel, Jim Lee, John Romita Jr., Greg Capullo and Andy Kubert The group talks about breaking into comics while four of them draw. The really interesting thing is that they filmed this in 360 degrees,[...]

From John Romita in Amazing Spider-Man. Recreated by David Marquez for the All-New All-Different Marvel title Invincible Iron Man. With a little "after Romita" tag there Nice. Except it was previously reinterpreted by Adam Hughes… Time to… animate! In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree[...]

The two-hour event will take place on Thursday, May 7th beginning at 3:00am EST (12:00am PST). Signatures available will include Stan Lee, John Romita, Loren Bouchard, Peter Tomasi, Matt Fraction, Jonathan Hickman, Jeff Parker, Skottie Young, and more. For Avengers fans their is Avengers Assemble #1 comic book autographed by Avengers co-creator Stan Lee, the Marvel Super Hero Secret Wars[...]

(and see the end for an updated write-up of the panel). Recreations of the original art for Sam Kieth's Maxx… Mike Mignola's Hellboy… Walt Simonson's Star Slammers… Classic Marvel Covers, a very thick volume recreating the original cover art for Marvel in the sixties and seventies. More John Romita Spider-Man Artist Editions… Not only the Basil Wolverton Weird Worlds Artist Edition[...]

Tomorrow, Orbital Comics in London premiere the Image Duplicator exhibition in which a number of artists reappropriate the works that Roy Lichtenstein reappropriated in his own work, currently on exhibition at the Tate Modern over the river. The launch party is tomorrow evening, I hope to see you there. You can check out two previous lots here[...]

 Headlining the original art portion of the auction was the Bill Waterson Calvin and Hobbes 1989-90 Calendar Cover Watercolor art which sold for $107,550.00, and the John Romita Sr Amazing Spider-Man Annual #3 Cover from 1966, which hammered at $104,562.50. The sale of the Romita cover puts the piece in the top 10 of public (or[...]

Steve Cook, designer of a number of logos seen at the top of your favourite comics, is also a photographer and photo manipulator. He gave us a wonderful

http://vimeo.com/36253146 'Nuff said, true believer.

144 pages of John Romita Amazing Spider-Man art, just like the actual boards… for a hundred bucks Start building bigger shelves. Scot Dunbier's originated format for IDW, the Artist's Edition, reproducing the original artwork for comic books, has taken another victim 144 pages of John Romita Amazing Spider-Man art, just like the actual boards… for[...]

UPDATE: The files below are from the submitted documents by Marvel to the judge in the continuing lawsuit, and are intended to reflect Marvel's case. John Romita is a legendary comic book artist who is most closely associated with his work on Spider-Man beginning in 1966, but he has had a wide-ranging career which began in[...]

 The splash page of this pivotal moment from the classic 1967 tale written by Stan Lee and drawn by John Romita for Spider-Man #50, an issue famously titled "Spider-Man No More!" sold at auction on December 17 for $88,500. For an interior page of American comic book art, this would appear to be a record for[...]