Archive Page 2251
September 2025
The history of DC's Compact Series – Comicsbeat
...over the past twenty years there has been an explosion of kid’s comics in book form from trade book publishers. In 2005 children’s book publisher Scholastic launched Graphix, a graphic novel imprint for kids. For their debut release Graphix colored and released the previously black and white comics Bone by Jeff Smith. Five years later they released Smile by Raina Telgemeier. Telgemeier has since sold millions of graphic novels worldwide. Jeff Kinney (Diary of A Wimpy Kid) and Dav Pilkey (Dog Man) are also in the multimillion copies sold club..."
Jim Lee doing art for a Spider-Man and Superman crossover? – IMDB News
Marvel now in GlobalComix platform, too – Comicsbeat
The online platform also already offering DC, Image Comics, Dark Horse, Boom! Studios, Oni Press, Kodansha "and many more"
I've been using Global Comix for about two weeks, and, so far, it seems to have the same sort of deficiencies as, for example, DC's DC Universe Infinite, meaning the same stories and individual issues that aren't available at one place (DC) are not available at the other place (Global) either.
There's a Cliffhanger reboot coming – Boundingintocomics
Remembering the 1997 Scarecrow by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo – 13th Dimension
"Batman toys worth a ton of money" – MSN Money Digest
Change Batman to fit the "James Gunn style"? – MSN Screenrant
Uh, oh, Hollywood: Trump puts 100% tariff on foreign-made films – UK The Times
Trump has previously vowed to restore Hollywood to its “golden age”, lamenting the fall in film production in Los Angeles and blaming generous tax incentives offered by other countries..."
Spider-Man Brand New Day-O is currently filming in the UK is directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and supposed to come out in July 2026. The film is being shot in Glasgow, Scotland and at Pinewood Studios, England (near London).
Superman is a hit in 2025 but other things are bigger hits – Superherohype
Superman’s loss against Demon Slayer shows the state of Superhero movies... James Gunn’s latest directorial feature has already lost the box office battle to six movies this year."
Only Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps crossed the $500 million mark in 2025 and the high expectations for Captain America: Brave New World ($415.1 million) and Thunderbolts* ($382.4 million) were not realized. July is the only month where superhero films had a shot at hitting the kind of numbers that made them such a phenomenon in other years, but in reality, what is 2025? It's a fizzle.
Spider-Man/Spider-Man 2/Spider-Man 3 Triple-bill rerelease for Fathom makes $2,250,977 – Boxofficemojo
- Jurassic World Rebirth at $867,114,682 worldwide - released July 2
- F1 at $626,181,934 worldwide - released Jun 27
- Superman at $615,636,363 worldwide - released July 11
- Demon Slayer at $605,400,000 worldwide - released July 11
- Fantastic Four at $521,040,188 worldwide - released July 25
- Weapons at $264,855,554 worldwide - released August 8
The Debris from Summer Box Office 2025
These numbers mean Superman and Fantastic Four are at #47 and #52 for all time superhero comic book movie earnings on the Top Super Hero Movie List
The worldwide box office numbers for all titles, top five:
- Ne Zha 2 (The Demon Child Conquers the Sea)* – $2.15 billion+
- Lilo & Stitch – $1.04 billion+
- A Minecraft Movie – $957.8 million
- Jurassic World Rebirth – $867.1 million
- How to Train Your Dragon – $634.9 million
* Chinese animated fantasy that used some 130 Chinese animation companies for visual effects and rendering. The film was in production for five years and involved more than 4,000 animators, making it China's most expensive animated film yet at a budget of around 600 million yuan (about US$80 million).
At the 1:21:00 mark "Marvel Zombie's encapsulates everything Marvel is right now. It is Phase 4 & 5 characters fighting the zombie versions of Phase 1 through 3 characters... Marvel doesn't know what they are anymore, they're in a full blown identity crisis..."
13 million views for Superman as it hits streaming – Gamesradar
Analyzing what happened to sales on comics with Marvel's Fear Itself event series. (Only 17,681 copies for Hulk vs Dracula!)
Shane Black says Downey's Doctor Doom is "going to single-handedly reinvigorate the entire comic book movie industry" – Gamesradar
"Big actors" wanna play Batman for The Brave and the Bold movie, claims James Gunn – MSN Deadline
How much did The Marvels cost to make? Turns out more than originally thought – Forbes "It's astonishing" says the article (behind a paywall).
Ten years of comic book store lessons – Bleedingcool
Absolute Wonder Woman tops best selling list for Bleeding Cool – Bleeding Cool
Jews and comic books: a tightly intertwined story
Story at MSN The Conversation
Celebrating Comic Book Day in Whitehall, Pennsylvania – WFMZ
"Spend National Comic Book Day With Smithsonian Graphic Novels" – Smithsonian
El Dorado celebrates National Comic Book Day – Eldorado News
National Comic Book Day in New Bedford – Standard Times
National Comic Book Day – National Day Calendar
Batman and Deadpool crossover variant covers – Yardbarker
Deadpool/Batman #1 (published by Marvel): September 17, 2025.
Batman/Deadpool #1 (published by DC): November 19, 2025
Batman for sale – Forbes Magazine
With WBD up for sale, Paramount Skydance is attempting an early bid while Warner leadership hopes for a bidding war, with rumors Netflix is about to jump into things with their own bid. This means any merger may result in changes to whatever plans WBD’s DC Studios has for its superhero franchises, including Batman...."
The animated Batman: Caped Crusader apparently getting a Season 2 – Geek Tyrant
New release date announced for the third animated Spider-Verse movie – MSN Variety
What's a Pannapictagraphist? – South Florida Reporter
A: a comic book collector.
Global Manga market is expected to keep growing from the current $14.97 billion to $63.08 billion by 2033 – Yahoo Finance
Image Comics setting up a 27-day "exclusivity window" for comic book shops – Comicsbeat
Brian Bendis back at Marvel – Bleedingcool
Looking over the Barris #4 Batmobile used in drag strip racing in 1967-1968 – 13th Dimension
Green Arrow and Birds of Prey cancelled – MSN Screenrant
Tom Holland gets concussion: Spiderman filming paused – Deadline Hollywood
The film is due out July 31, 2026
The Tom Holland Spider-Man appearances:
- Captain America: Civil War (2016)
- Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
- Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
- Avengers: Endgame (2019)
- Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
- Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) Currently filming
"A rare signed Todd McFarlane lithograph will be raffled off" to benefit the Phoeniz Arizona Zoo – AZ Central
This is part of an exihibit called "Art on the Wild Side: Comic Conservation" running through Jan. 25, 2026.
"Comic Conservation" at the Phoeniz Zoo
Half-million in sales for the new Batman #1 – Hollywood Reporter
That number puts the title as the top-selling comic of the year so far, a number that is unlikely to be topped, despite one more big publishing event on the calendar — the two-part company crossover comics involving Deadpool and, you guessed it, Batman..."
New owners of Diamond ordered by court to stop selling off the consignment stock – Bleedingcool
So what is this "Batman Day" that happens in September? – Marca
Chris Nolan now head of the Director's Guild – Hollywood Reporter
The Oscar-winning helmer behind ’The Dark Knight’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ ran unopposed to lead the more than 19,000-member union.
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Original page October 15, 2025