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COVID-19 - From
CDC: The Centers for Disease Control has "COVID Data Tracker."
DIAMOND - From
Newsarama: This link reveals a list of comic books titles that publishers (including DC Comics) are going to release through Diamond Comic Distributors for
May 20, 2020.
DIAMOND - From
Newsarama: (May 8th) - Diamond has made it official that May 20th is the first on-sale date of its resumed distribution of comic books
MARVEL - From
Newsarama: Marvel Comics has announced the shipping schedule for the following weeks:
May 27th; June 3rd, 10th, 17, and 24th;
July 1st and
8th.
MARVEL - From
Newsarama: Marvel Comics has announced its shipping schedule for late July 2020 in the following weeks:
July 15th,
22nd, and
29th.
GEORGE FLOYD - From
BleedingCool: Comic book people respond to the protests related to the murder of
George Floyd, an African-American man in Minneapolis.
DC COMICS - From
Newsarama: DC Comics has cancelled 22 planned reprint comic books.
DC COMICS - From
Newsarama: DC Comics has cancelled the prints editions of "RWBY #7" and "gen:LOCK #7," the final issues of two digital-first series.
DC COMICS - From
Newsarama: "Lucifer #18" will be the final issue of the series as a monthly periodical. Lucifer issues #19 to #24 will be released as a collected edition.
MARVEL - From
BleedingCool: Marvel Comics will give comic book shops all the giveaways it planned to hand out at San Diego Comic-Con 2020, which has been cancelled.
DC COMICS - From
Newsarama: Writer
Ram V and artist
Fernando Blanco will be the new creative team on DC Comics' "Catwoman" series, beginning with September's issue #25
DC TV - From
Deadline: Actor
Tom Ellis will return to play Lucifer in the Netflix series, "Lucifer," after some difficult negotiations, which could pave the way for a sixth season. Filming on the fifth season had been halted due to the coronavirus pandemic.
NEWS - From
Newsarama: "Newsarama" has announced that it is moving to "GamesRadar," Mon., June 1st, which will likely mean a change of web addresses.
MARVEL TV - From
Newsarama: Apparently, the seventh and final season of "Marvel's Agents of SHIELD" will have some kind of contact with the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
DC CINEMA - From
Newsarama: Director Zack Snyder reveals "Darkseid" for his upcoming "Director's cut" of "Justice League."
BRIT COMICS - From
2000AD: The lastest "2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes" podcast features
Suyi Davies Okungbowa,
Charlie Higson,
Charlie Adlard.
Z2 COMICS - From
BleedingCool: Z2 Comics will publish "Gorillaz Almanac" in October 2020. the hardback comic, done in the tradition of the British hardback annual, will feature the members of the Grammy-winning virtual (fictitious) musical act, "Gorillaz."
DC COMICS - From
DCBlog: The DC Comics blog has updated the list of DC publications scheduled to arrive in stores
May 19th amd
May 26th, 2020.
POLITICAL CARTOONS - From
Newsarama: CBLDF Protests TRUMP Campaign-Ordered Takedown of Satirical Political Cartoon
DC CINEMA - From
Newsarama: Director David Ayers would like their to also be a director's cut of his super-awful film, "Suicide Squad."
MANGA - From
ANN: Yen Press announces four new titles for October 2020 - three manga and an art book tie-in to a video game.
COMIC BOOK SHOP - From
DuncanBanner: Kenny's Comics of Odessa Texas has a "Traveling Comic Books Store" that travels throughout Texas and Oklahoma.
FOX MARVEL U - From
CinemaBlend: There is a reason for New Mutants fans to be excited opening the movie, "The New Mutants," and it is Bill Sienkiewicz
DC COMICS - From
BleedingCool: Does Walmart's "Batman Giant #5" offer a new origin for the Joker?
DC COMICS - From
Newsarama: DC Comics has launched a new monthly solicitation catalog, "
DC Connect." It will be a digital-only publication, as a downloadable PDF.
SONY MARVEL U - From
Deadline:
Marc Guggenheim is writing a script for
Sony Pictures based on the Marvel Comics character, "
Jackpot," a female character out of the Spider-Man line of comics. Guggenheim has written comics featuring Jackpot for Marvel Comics. Guggenheim is also working on another comic book project, "Prophet," based on the work by Rob Liefeld.
SONY MARVEL U - From
Variety: The word is out that Sony Pictures is developing some kind of female superhero or female superhero team movie based on characters from the world of Spider-Man.
DC TV - From
Variety: According to the article, actress
Ruby Rose exited her lead role of "
Kate Kane/Batwoman" in The CW's "
Batwoman" because of the long hours her lead role required.
BRIT COMICS - From
2000AD: Three legendary "2000AD" artists: Brian Bolland, Dave Gibbons, and Mick McMahon, are together in one podcast interview.
DC CINEMA - From
Newsarama: Director
Zack Snyder has announced that
HBO Max, Warner Media's new streaming service, will stream his "cut" of the 2017 film, "
Justice League" in 2021. Snyder was the original director of the film, but, for personal reasons, left before the film was finished. Director
Joss Whedon finished the film, which has been panned by fans since its release back in late 2017.
COVID-19 - From
THR: The adult Halloween masks that resemble the one worn by "
Bane" in "
The Dark Knight Rises" (2012) are a hot seller due to COVID-19.
DC TV - From
Variety: Actress
Ruby Rose has announced that she is departing from The CW television series, "
Batwoman," ahead of the second season. Rose played the lead role of "
Kate Kane/Batwoman."
DC COMICS DIGITAL - From
Newsarama: DC Comics has announced a digital-first "DCeased" series, "
DCeased: Hope at World's End." The twice-monthly, 14-chapter limited serial is written by
Tom Taylor and the first chapter is available to read across all platforms.
DC COMICS - From
BleedingCool: According to the site, artist
Marc Silvestri will only continue work on his long-delayed, long-promised comic book, "
Batman/The Joker: Deadly Duo," when he gets paid the big money that
Greg Capullo is allegedly being paid for upcoming DC mega-project, "
Death Metal."
MARVEL - From
Newsarama: The classic "Incredible Hulk" creative team of
Peter David and
Dale Keown, will unite with artist
German Peralta for a story featuring the Hulk character,
Maestro." The untitled comic book debuts in August.
DC TV - From
TVWeb: There is a poster and official synopsis for The CW's 2021 series, "
Superman & Lois."
COMICS TO TV - From
Newsarama: Netflix has set July 31, 2020 as the debut of "The Umbrella Academy" Season 2.
DC CINEMA - From
Newsarama: The release date for the upcoming, "
Wonder Woman 1984," could change again.
SUBMISSIONS - From
BleedingCool: Comics publisher, Second Sight, is now accepting submissions for new comic book series.
DC COMICS - From
Newsarama: DC Comics' series, "The Terrifics," will see its final print issue with #27. However, the series will conclude with three digital issues, concluding with "The Terrifics #30 released on Sept. 1st.
MARVEL - From
Newsarama: Writer
Mark Waid and legendary comic book artist
Neal Adams are producing a new "Fantastic Four" comic book. "
Fantastic Four: Antithesis" arrives in August, but the duration of the project is currently unknown.
MARVEL TV - From
Variety: "
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." has added actor
Darren Barnet as a guest star to the
Season 7 premiere. It is currently unclear how many episodes in which Barnet will appear.
COMICS EDUCATION - From
Newsarama: Cartoonist Emma Kubert, the third generation in the Kubert comic book creating clan, will be teaching an online sketch class, via the Kubert schook, for kids beginning in June.
DC TV - From
Newsarama: The second season of "
Doom Patrol" (from Warner Bros. Television) will debut on HBO Max and DC Universe on June 25th.
FOX MARVEL U - From
Newsarama: Disney has reportedly scheduled the long-delayed film, "The New Mutants," for an August 28th, 2020 release.
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DC TV - From
Newsarama:
Robert Downey, Jr.'s TV adaptation of
Jeff Lemire's comic book series, "Sweet Tooth," is moving from Hulu to Netflix.
From
Newsarama:
Jeff Brolin and
Will Forte are among the cast members of Netflix's "
Sweet Tooth" TV adaptation.
DC COMICS - From
Newsarama: Jeff Lemire has announced that he will revive his former Vertigo comic book series, "Sweet Tooth," which originally ran from 2009 to 2013. No debut date for "
Sweet Tooth: The Return."
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DC COMICS - From
BleedingCool:
Geoff Johns and
Jason Fabok's long-awaited three-issue miniseries, "
The Three Jokers," is currently scheduled to debut August 25th.
COMICS TO FILM - From
Newsarama:
Tim Story is negotiating to direct
Kevin Hart's film, "
Night Wolf," a superhero film. Story directed Hart in several films, including the "Ride Along" and "Think Like a Man" film. Story directed Fox's "Fantastic Four" films from 2005 and 2007.
DC TV - From
DigitalSpy: (May 12th) - The CW broadcast network will air the one existing season of DC Universe's cancelled series, "
Swamp Thing." [I have not been able to learn the air date as of this writing. - Leroy]
DC COMICS - From
Newsarama: DC Comics has informed retailers that is approving Tuesday as the on-sale date of of all its comic book titles. That includes products distributed by Diamond Comic Distributors, which has traditionally mandated a Wednesday release.
DC COMICS - From
Newsarama: DC Comics is also getting rid of the six-day exclusivity window that comic book retailers has over the book trade market when it comes to trade paperback and hardback collections and graphic novels.
DC COMICS - From
Newsarama: Scott Snyder talks "
Dark Nights: Death Metal" and the changes to DC Comics' plans in the wake of for DC co-publisher Dan DiDio's "exit" from the company.
BOOM! - From
BleedingCool: BOOM! Studios will produce a 12-issue comic book based on the "Dune" prequel novel, "
Dune: House Atreides," and will be written by the novel's authors, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. The first issue is due Fall 2020.
MEMORIAM - From
Newsarama: DC Comics writer-editor
Martin Pasko has died at the age of 65, Monday, May 11, 2020. Pasko is best known for his long tenure writing Superman and Superman-related comic books. He was also a longtime writer and story editor for live-action and animated television series and won a Daytime Emmy for his work on "Batman: The Animated Series."
COVID-19 - From
CBB: The ComicBookBin's Herve St. Louis offers some reflections on what COVID-19 is doing to comics.
AWARDS - From
PulitzerPrizes: The 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners have been announced.
NETFLIX - From
Newsarama: Here is a first look at
Charlize Theron as the immortal warrior, "Andromache," in Netflix adaptation of the comic book series, "
The Old Guard."
COMICS TO FILM - From
Newsarama: Television and comic book writer,
Marc Guggenheim, will reportedly write a film based on Rob Liefeld's "
Prophet" comic book.
MARVEL COMICS - From
Newsarama: Marvel is making eight titles digital-only comics. There are seven existing titles that are going digital only: "Ghost-Spider," the limited series "Ant-Man," "Avengers of the Wastelands," "Ravencroft," "Star," "Marvel’s Spider-Man: The Black Cat Strikes," and "Hawkeye: Freefall," and and the new title, "2020: Ironheart."
COMICS TO FILM - From
Deadline:
Dwayne Johnson and
Emily Blunt are re-teaming to co-star and co-produce, "
Ball and Chain," based on the
Scott Lobdell Homage/Wildstorm four-issue limited series from 1999.
NETFLIX - From
Newsarama: Netflix has released images from its upcoming first season of "Cursed," which is adapted from the young adult novel of the same name by writer Thomas Wheeler and artist
Frank Miller.
DC COMICS - From
BleedingCool: DC Comics shipping on
Tuesday, May 5th and
Tuesday May 12th.
COMICS - From
Newsarama: The site has confirmed that other comic book publishers have inquired with new comic book publisher, Lunar (owned by Discount Comic Book Service), about publishing their titles.
DC COMICS - From
Newsarama: DC Comics shipping for May 19 and May 26, 2020.
DC COMICS - From
BleedingCool: DC Comics explains why
Tuesday is the new on-sale date for their comics publications.
IN MEMORIAM - From
CBR: Longtime comic book inker,
Juan Vlasco, died at the age of 51, Friday, April 24, 2020. He had worked for both Marvel and DC Comics since the early 1990s, but he was best known for work for Marvel, especially on "Cable" and "Uncanny X-Men."
HISTORY - From
CBR: While cleaning out a closet,
Todd McFarlane found a page of his original art that depicts the first appearance of the character, Venom. From The Amazing Spider-Man #300, the page features the first full appearance of that character co-created by McFarlane and writer David Michelinie.
MARVEL - From
Newsarama: (5/1) X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four, Wolverine, Spider-Woman, Gwen Stacy, Conan the Barbarian, and Star Wars that Marvel Comics will not be publishing over the next two months... and possible longer.
MARVEL - From
Newsarama: (5/1) Marvel Comics explains the reasons for its "measured" release schedule over the next two months.
DC DIGITAL - From
Newsarama: DC Comics announces its "Week 3" list of digital comics releases.
DIAMOND - From
Newsarama: Diamond Comic Distributors plans to release a "Previews" catalog with a revised comics shipping lists for May and June 2020.
MANGA - From
ComicBook: The "
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba" manga is set to end in Japan, with the last chapter scheduled to appear May 22nd in "Weekly Shonen Jump." Koyoharu Gotouge is apparently keeping to his plan to create a tight four-year series.
DC COMICS - From
Newsarama: Classic "Green Lantern" comic book creative team,
Ron Marz and
Darryl Banks, reunited for new "Green Lantern" project.
DC CINEMA - From
Newsarama:
Darren Criss,
Zachary Quinto, and
Alexandra Daddario will voice the lead characters in an all-new Superman film from Warner Bros. Animation,
Superman: Man of Tomorrow.
DC COMIC-DIAMOND - From
Newsarama: DC Comics' exclusive distribution agreement with Diamond Comic Distributors seems to have ended almost 25 years to the day it began.
COMICS TO FILM - From
Collider:
Rawson Thurber Marshall, the director of "Dodgeball: An Underdog Story," is in talks to direct a film adaptation of the "Mad Magazine" comic strip feature, "
Spy vs. Spy."
APRIL 2020 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:
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BleedingCool: Ablaze Media for April 2020
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BleedingCool: Ahoy Comics for April 2020
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BleedingCool: Amigo Comics for April 2020
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Newsarama: Antarctic Press for April 2020
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Newsarama: Archie Comics for April 2020
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Newsarama: Dark Horse Comics for April 2020
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Newsarama: DC Comics for April 2020
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BleedingCool: Devil's Due for April 2020
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BleedingCool: IDW Publishing for April 2020
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Newsarama: Image Comics for April 2020
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BleedingCool: Keenspot for April 2020
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Newsarama: Marvel Comics for April 2020
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Newsarama: Scout Comics for April 2020
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Newsarama: Valiant Entertainment for April 2020
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ComicsPit: VIZ Media for April 2020
MAY 2020 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:
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Newsarama: A full-list of titles available for "Free Comic Book Day 2020" on May 2, 2020.
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BleedingCool: AfterShock Comics for May 2020
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BleedingCool: Ahoy Comics for May 2020
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Newsarama: Antarctic Press for May 2020
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Newsarama: Archie Comics for May 2020
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BleedingCool: Artists, Writers & Artisans for May 2020
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BleedingCool: Aspen for May 2020
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Newsarama: Behemoth Comics for May 2020
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BleedingCool: Black Mask Studios for May 2020
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Newsarama: BOOM! Studios for May 2020
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Newsarama: BOOM! Studios for May 2020 [
REVISED]
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Newsarama: Dark Horse Comics for May 2020
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Newsarama: DC Comics for May 2020
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BleedingCool: Hero Complex for May 2020
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Newsarama: Hero Tomorrow for May 2020
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BleedingCool: IDW Publihsing for May 2020
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Newsarama: IDW Publishing for May 2020 [
REVISED]
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BleedingCool: Image Comics for May 2020
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Newsarama: Mad Cave Studios for May 2020
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Newsarama: Marvel Comics for May 2020
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BleedingCool: Oni Press for May 2020
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BleedingCool: Red 5 Comics for May 2020
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Newsarama: Scout Comics for May 2020
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BleedingCool: Source Point Press for May 2020
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BleedingCool: Storm King Productions for May 2020
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Newsarama: Titan Comics for May 2020
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Newsarama: Valiant Entertainment for May 2020
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Newsarama: Vault Comics for May 2020
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BleedingCool: VIZ Media for May 2020
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BleedingCool: Yen Press for May 2020
JUNE 2020 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:
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BleedingCool: AfterShock Comics for June 2020
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Newsarama: Antarctic Press for June 2020
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Newsarama: Archie Comics for June 2020
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Newsarama: BOOM! Studios for June 2020
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Newsarama: BOOM! Studios for June 2020 [
REVISED]
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BleedingCool: Dark Horse Comics for June 2020
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Newsarama: DC Comics for June 2020
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Newsarama: DC Comics for June 2020
[REVISED]
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Newsarama: Dynamite Entertainment for June 2020
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BleedingCool: Hero Collector for June 2020
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Newsarama: IDW Publishing for June 2020
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Newsarama: IDW Publishing for June 2020 [
REVISED]
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BleedingCool: Image Comics for June 2020
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Newsarama: Image Comics for June 2020
[REVISED]
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BleedingCool: Mad Cave for June 2020
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Newsarama: Marvel Comics for June 2020
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Newsarama: Marvel Comics for June 2020
[REVISED]
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Newsarama: Oni Press for June 2020
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Newsarama: Scout Comics for June 2020
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Newsarama: Source Point Press for June 2020
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BleedingCool: Titan Comics for June 2020
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Newsarama: Vault Comics for June 2020
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Newsarama: Valiant Entertainment for June 2020
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BleedingCool: VIZ Media for June 2020
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BleedingCool: Yen Press for June 2020
[REVISED]
JULY 2020 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:
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Newsarama: Antarctic Press for July and August 2020
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Newsarama: Behemoth Comics for July 2020
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Newsarama: DC Comics for July 2020
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BleedingCool: Hero Collector for July 2020
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Newsarama: IDW Publishing for July 2020
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Newsarama: Scout Comics for July 2020
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Newsarama: VIZ Media for July 2020
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BleedingCool: Yen Press for July 2020
AUGUST 2020 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:
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Newsarama: Antarctic Press for July and August 2020
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BleedingCool: Archie Comics for August 2020
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BleedingCool: AWA for August 2020
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Newsarama: DC Comics for August 2020
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Newsarama: IDW Publishing for August 2020
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Seibertron: IDW Publishing's "Transformers" solicitations for August 2020
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BleedingCool: Image Comics for August 2020
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Newsarama: Marvel Comics for August 2020
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BleedingCool: PS Artbooks for August 2020
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BleedingCool: Valiant Comics for August 2020
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BleedingCool: Vault Comics for August 2020
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