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NEWS:
SDCC/MARVEL - From BleedingCool: John Byrne's 32-issue fan-fiction "X-Men" comic book, "X-Men: Elsewhen," will be collected in three volumes by Abrams via its "Marvel Arts." The comic book will be inked and colored for the first time and it will be re-lettered. The first volume is due April 2026.
MARVEL - From BleedingCool: Writer Jimmy Palmiotti and artist Dan Panosian are producing a four issue miniseries, "Marvel Knights: The Punisher," as part of Marvel's celebration of the late "Marvel Knights" imprint.
SUPERMAN - From TheNewYorker: "The New Yorker" has revived a 2013 article, "Kryptonomics," by writer Deborah Friedell about how Superman's creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, got a raw deal on the sale of their creation to National Periodicals.
From Deadline: The opening weekend box office estimates for James Gunn's "Superman" range from 122 million dollars to 125 million dollars.
From Forbes: Actor Edi Gathegi talks about trusting James Gunn's vision for "Superman." Gathegi plays "Mister Terrific" in the film.
From
THR: Writer
James Hibberd of "
The Hollywood Reporter" says "Stop, Already, With Superhero Movies Ending With Big, Dumb CG Smash Battles."
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COMICS TO FILM - From
THR: There is a hot film package getting the attention of Hollywood studios heads. It features director Taika Waititi and writer Drew Pearce bring British comic book icon, Judge Dredd, back to film.
DC STUDIOS - From
ComicsBulletin: HBO Max's "The Penguin" earned 24 nominations at the 2025 / 77th Primetime Emmy Awards. That is the second most for a television series based on a comic book. HBO's "Watchmen" earned 26 nominations and won 11. The winners will be announced in a series of ceremonies that culminated in the
77th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony on
September 14th.
DC COMICS - From DCBlog: Mark Waid talks about his latest comics project for DC Comics, the four-issue limited series, "New History of the DC Universe."
SD COMIC-CON - From TheWrap: At San Diego Comic Con 2500, the 6500-seat venue, "Hall H," is where Hollywood studios come to launch major franchises. However, the major studios, including Lucasfilm ("Star Wars"), Warner Bros./DC, and Marvel Studios, are skipping the film panels.
MARVEL - From BleedingCool: The Fantastic Four return to newsstands in the "bookazine" (a book-like magazine) entitled, "Marvel Comics: The Fantastic Four." It will be comprised of reprinted stories, but none of the stories will be from Stan Lee & Jack Kirby or John Byrne. The issue is out July 4, 2025, and each issues comes with $30 in free digital comics. According to Amazon, the book costs $14.99 for 96 pages.
SDCC:
IMAGE COMICS - From ComicsBulletin: Image Comics has announced its full lineup of panels, signings, and variants-for-sale at the 2025 San Diego Comic-Con. The convention takes place from Wed., July 23rd to Sun., July 27th, 2025.
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EN MEMORIAM - From
Forbes: Comic book industry writer, editor, publisher, and executive,
Jim Shooter, has died at the age of 73, Monday, June 30, 2025 (of
esophageal). A pivotal and important figure in the development and modernization of the American comic book industry, it would eat up too much space to list all his accomplishments. However, Shooter is best remembered as the Marvel Comics' Editor-in-Chief (EiC) from January 1978 to April 1987. Shooter was Marvel ninth EiC and some believe that he issued in a second "Golden Age" at Marvel during his tenure. After Marvel, Shooter would go on to co-found the comic book publishers,
Valiant Comics, Defiant Comics, and Broadway Comics. As a writer, Shooter wrote the 1984-85 landmark comic book miniseries, "Marvel Super Heroes Secrets Wars," which is commonly known as "Secret Wars." Shooter started writing comic books at the age of 14 for DC Comics and made numerous important contributions to the "Legion of Super-Heroes" franchise.
From
BleedingCool: This obituary by "Bleeding Cool" summarizes and editorialized
Jim Shooter's career in comic books.
From
BleedingCool: People from throughout the American comic book industry remember former Marvel Editor-in-Chief,
Jim Shooter, who died on Monday, June 30th. The remembrances comes from such people as C.B. Cebulski, Erik Larsen, Jim Lee, Paul Levitz, Rob Liefeld, Chuck Rozanski, Walter Simonson, and Mark Waid, to name a few.
From
TCJ: "
The Comics Journal" is apparently working on a proper obituary of
Jim Shooter, the former Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief who died Monday, June 30th. In the meantime, they have links to interviews they conducted with him.
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DC COMICS - From BleedingCool: There are future "Batman" projects coming from Jim Cheung, Olivier Coipel, and from the team of Tom King and Steve McNiven.
IMAGE COMICS - From GamesRadar: Robert Kirkman, famed writer of "The Walking Dead" comic book series, will take over as writer of the "Transformers" comic book series produced by his company, Skybound. DC Comics star artist, Dan Mora, will draw the series. There first issue is "Transformers #25," due in October.
BRITISH COMICS - From Empire: Empire magazine has a first-look image from the animated feature film adaptation of "Rogue Trooper," the long-running comic book series from the venerable British comics magazine, "2000 AD."
MARVEL - From BleedingCool: September's "Deadpool/Batman" crossover comic book from Marvel Comics will feature the lead Deadpool & Batman story by writer Zeb Wells and artist Greg Capullo. It will also include these other following crossover back-up stories:
-- Captain America/Wonder Woman by Chip Zdarsky and Terry Dodson
-- Daredevil/Green Arrow by Kevin Smith and Adam Kubert
-- Jeff the Land Shark/Krypto by Kelly Thompson and Gurihiru
DC COMICS - From BleedingCool: According to "Bleeding Cool," DC Comics will move to Universal Distribution, which is essentially the Canadian version of Diamond Comic Distributors, as the distribution of its comic books in the United States. DC Comics is currently with Lunar Distribution.
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From
BleedingCool: Image Comics "Energon Universe" titles for June 2025
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BleedingCool: Image Comics "Spawn" titles for June 2025
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BleedingCool: Marvel Comics "One World Under Doom" crossover titles for June 2025
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BleedingCool: Marvel Comics "Ultimate Universe" for June 2025
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BleedingCool: Marvel Comics "Ultimate Comics" with "Scarlet Witch" for June 2025
From
BleedingCool: Marvel Comics' "Ultimate Spider-Man: Incursion #1" for June 2025
JULY 2025 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:
From
BleedingCool: DC Comics "Superman" titles for July 2025
From
BleedingCool: Image Comics Skybound "Energon" titles for July 2025
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BleedingCool: Image Comics "Ghost Machine" titles for July 2025
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BleedingCool: Image Comics "Spawn" titles for July 2025
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BleedingCool: Marvel Comics "Bring on the Bad Guys" titles for July 2025
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BleedingCool: Marvel Comics "One World Under Doom" tie-in titles for July 2025
AUGUST 2025 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:
From
BleedingCool: DC Comics "Absolute Comics" titles for August 2025
From
BleedingCool: Image Comics "Energon" titles for August 2025
From
BleedingCool: Image Comics "Ghost Machine" for August 2025
From
BleedingCool: Image Comics "Spawn" titles for August 2025
From
BleedingCool: Marvel Comics' "Bring on the Bad Guys" titles for August 2025
From
BleedingCool: Marvel Comics' "One World Under Doom" titles for August 2025
From
BleedingCool: Marvel Comics "Ultimate" titles for August 2025
From
BleedingCool: Titan Comics "Conan" and "Solomon Kane" titles for August 2025
SEPTEMBER 2025 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:
From
BleedingCool: Dynamite Entertainment for September 2025
From
BleedingCool: Image Comics "Energon Universtiy" titles for September 2025
From
BleedingCool: Image Comics' Todd McFarlane "Spawn" titles for September 2025
From
BleedingCool: Keenspot Entertainment for September 2025
From
BleedingCool: Marvel Comics "Godzilla Destroys the Marvel Universe" for September 2025
From
BleedingCool: Marvel's "One World Under Doom" titles for September 2025
From
BleedingCool: Marvel's "One World Under Doom #7" for September 2025
From
BleedingCool: Marvel "Ultimate Comics" titles for September 2025
From
BleedingCool: Zenescope Entertainment for September 2025
OCTOBER 2025 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:
From
BleedingCool: DC Comics collections, "Absolutes," and omnibuses for October 2025
From
BleedingCool: DC Comics "Absolute Comics" titles for October 2025
From
BleedingCool: Image Comics "Void Rivals/Energon" titles for October 2025
From
BleedingCool: Marvel Comics "One World Under Doom" titles for October 2025
From
BleedingCool: Marvel Comics five "X-Men: Age of Revelation" titles for October 2025
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