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Crises on Infinite Earths

I have not read the Crisis on Infinite Earths maxi-series in its entirety for 30 years. I keep meaning to re-read the whole thing, but I have read just #11-12 many many times, most recently in 2010 and 2019. For the past year (almost), DC has been re

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Comics shipping week of Feb. 17, 2025

TOP 10 PUBLISHERS

MARVEL COMICS
ALIEN PARADISO #3 (OF 5, $3.99)
ALIENS VS AVENGERS #3 (OF 4, $7.99)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #68 ($4.99)
BLACK PANTHER: BY COATES INTERGALACTIC EMPIRE OF WAKANDA TP ($50.00)
BLACK PANTHER: A NATION UNDER OUR FEET TP (MARVEL

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Xenozoic Tales

My first issue of Xenozoic Tales, #14, was the last issue of Xenozoic Tales. That was in 1996. The previous issue came out in 1994, and the one before that 1992. So I knew going in that Xenozoic Tales (a.k.a. "Cadillacs & Dinosaurs") was not exactly

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Comics shipping week of Feb. 10, 2025

TOP 10 PUBLISHERS

MARVEL COMICS
ALL NEW VENOM #3 ($4.99)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #129 FACSIMILE EDITION ($4.99)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #67 ($4.99)
CABLE: LOVE AND CHROME #2 ($3.99)
DAREDEVIL BY SALADIN AHMED VOL 3: LIVING HELL TP ($15.99)
DAREDEVIL MODERN ERA

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Comics shipping week of Feb. 3, 2025

TOP 10 PUBLISHERS

MARVEL COMICS
AVENGERS #23
BLACK PANTHER BY COATES: INTERGALACTIC EMPIRE OF WAKANDA TP ($50.00)
BLACK PANTHER: A NATION UNDER OUR FEET TP ($14.99)
CAPTAIN AMERICA/BLACK PANTHER: FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS TP ($17.99)
CAPTAIN AMERICA EPIC

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Marvel Comics for April 2025

GODZILLA VS. HULK #1

GERRY DUGGAN (W) • GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI (A/C) • VERSUS VARIANT BY LEE GARBETT

VARIANT COVER BY PEACH MOMOKO • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY PEACH MOMOKO

GODZILLA KING OF THE MONSTERS HOMAGE VARIANT COVER BY LEONARDO ROMERO

VARIANT COVER

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DC Comics for April 2025

SUMMER OF SUPERMAN SPECIAL #1

Written by Dan Slott, Joshua Williamson, and Mark Waid

Art and cover by Jorge Jiménez

Variant covers by Alexander Lozano, John Giang, Mahmud Asrar, and Chrissie Zullo-Uminga

1:25 ratio variant cover by Dan Jurgens

Foil v

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Titan Comics April solicitations

TITAN COMICS APRIL 2025 SOLICITS

(FEBRUARY 2025 PREVIEWS)

 

COMICS

THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #8

Format: Comic book/magazine

(W): Dennis Culver, Liam Sharp, Fred Kennedy, Zack Davisson, Patch Zircher

(A): Chris Burnham, Liam Sharp, Marco Rudy, Max Von

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Archie Comics April soiicitations

Archie Comics April Solicits/February Previews

ARCHIE & FRIENDS: LEVEL UP (ONE-SHOT)

Now packed with 30 PAGES of story content, including a BRAND-NEW STORY! It’s a video game celebration issue featuring a fun retro variant cover! Archie and the Gang

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Comics shipping week of Jan. 27, 2025

NOTE: For comics shops that rely on Diamond Comics Distributors (including all of the UK), many titles will be delayed until Feb. 5. But for non-Diamond shops, the books will ship on time. Diamond books are marked with an asterisk. See Bleeding Cool

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Comics for week of Jan. 20, 2025

TOP 10 PUBLISHERS

MARVEL COMICS
ALIEN: BLACK, WHITE AND BLOOD TREASURY EDITION TP ($29.99)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #66 ($4.99)
BLADE RED BAND #4 (OF 5, POLYBAG, $4.99)
DAREDEVIL BY BENDIS MALEEV OMNIBUS VOL 2 HC (NEW PTG, $100.00)
DOCTOR DOOM & ROCKET RAC

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DC Finest - Supergirl, The Girl of Steel

Supergirl Archives, Volumes One and Two covers Action Comics #252-285 (1959-1961)

The Silver Age Supergirl covers Action Comics #286-376 (1962-1969)

Both the archives and the omnibuses focus on Supergirl's solo feature in Action Comics, but Supergir

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Diamond Distributors Files for Bankruptcy

Diamond Comics Distributors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today. They also announced that they were selling off pieces of their large company - Alliance Games and Diamond UK were two mentioned today with others likely to happen soon.

What

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Comics list for week of Jan. 13, 2025

MAJOR PUBLISHERS

MARVEL COMICS
ALIEN PARADISO #2 (OF 5, $3.99)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 65.DEATHS ($3.99)
AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #5 (OF 5, $3.99)
BLADE EPIC COLLECT VOL 2: NIGHTSTALKERS TP ($44.99)
EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN #5 ($3.99)
IMMORTAL THOR #19 ($4.99)
INCREDI

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Cruel Kingdom

I started threads for Oni Press's other "EC" titles, so I might as well start one for Cruel Kingdom as well. For some reason, I assumed Cruel Kingdom would be an ongoing narrative, but it's not; it's an anthology (sword & sorcery in this case), just

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DC Finest - Aquaman, King of Atlantis

As has already been noted elsewhere on this board, today's "Aquaman" DC Finest edition completely comprises the contents of 2003's Aquaman Archives Vol. 1 (and only). I have read that volume twice in the the last 20 years and have no desire to read t

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Comics shipping week of Jan. 6, 2025

MAJOR PUBLISHERS

MARVEL COMICS
ALL NEW VENOM #2 ($4.99)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #65 ($4.99)
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE SAGA OF SAM WILSON TP ($24.99)
DAREDEVIL: UNLEASH HELL RED BAND #1 (OF 5, POLYBAG, $4.99)
FANTASTIC FOUR #1 FACSIMILE EDITION ($4.99)
GOTG MO

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Earliest Versions of Popeye and Tintin Enter Public Domain

Story


OK, assuming we had the money, who would we hire to illustrate our "Popeye Meets Tintin" comic?

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List of comics shipping week of Dec. 30, 2024

MAJOR PUBLISHERS

MARVEL COMICS
ALIENS VS AVENGERS #2 (OF 4, 2ND PTG ESAD RIBIC VA, $7.99)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #61 (2ND PTG ED MCGUINNESS VAR, $4.99)
AVENGERS #22 ($3.99)
CABLE LOVE AND CHROME #1 (OF 5, $4.99)
DAREDEVIL #17 ($4.99)
DAREDEVIL BY CHIP ZD

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List of comics shipping week of Dec. 23, 2024

MAJOR PUBLISHERS

MARVEL COMICS
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #64 ($4.99)
BLADE RED BAND #3 (OF 5, POLYBAG, $4.99)
EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN #4 ($3.99)
HELLHUNTERS #1 (OF 5, $4.99)
IRON MAN #3 ($3.99)
IRON MAN MODERN ERA EPIC COLLECTION VOL 4: STARK DISASSEMBLED TP ($44

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