Last Update: October 2, 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" target="_blank">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.
DC Comics' December book list – Comicsbeat
Review of the book BOOM! SPLAT! Comics and Violence. University Press of Mississippi – The Journal of the Comics Studies Society
The DC Comics' 1975’s Christmas with the Superhger-Heroes getting reprint – 13th Dimension
About Peter David, writer for long run on Incredible Hulk, Star Trek and more – The Comics Journal
Marvel's books for October – Comic Releases
Above: not even remotely by Frazetta
Frazetta's "Man Ape" goes for $13.5 million, setting record – Art Net
This is a new high water mark for the famed artist, the previous largest sale was on June 27, 2023 with the Frank Frazetta cover to Dark Crusade by Karl Edward Wagner selling for $6 million.
The Heritage Auction sale page on Frazetta's Man Ape
The tangled distribution mess for Avatar Press – Bleedingcool
DC’s new releases and back catalog of more than 30,000 individual issues, volumes, and collected editions across 90 years are coming online for purchase on the GlobalComix platform – Biz News
The Global Comix web site
Batch of reviews of self-published mini-comics – The Comics Journal
CGC 7 of Batman #1 from 1940 auctions at $700K+ – Goldin
All the Variant covers for the DC-Marvel Batman and Deadpool crossover – Boundingintocomics
The 2025 The Small Press Expo Ignatz Awards for small press comics – Daily Cartoonist
Big sales numbers for the arcade Marvel vs. Capcom – Gematsu
Interview with Phillip Russertt of indy comics distributor Philbo
Story at Boundingintocomics
"Free Comic Book Day" rights to be sold
Story at Bleedingcool
End of the line for the Diamond Previews catalog – Bleedingcool
"The best Comic Book Store in the World" – The World
Garcia said she only shops at Akira Comics, even though in Madrid there are several other comics stores. "It’s a fantasy-land. You become immersed in another world." Akira is like no other comic store on Earth — which is partly why it won Best on Earth at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, the biggest yearly comics industry gathering hosted in major cities around the globe. If you walk around the 9,000 square foot Akira store — the largest in the world — you soon will find a life-size facade of a Hobbit house. It’s a replica of Bilbo Baggins’ place, from "The Lord of the Rings" fantasy series..."
The shuffling of the corporate megaliths: Paramount to buy Warner Bros Discovery? – Reuters MSN
Paramount Skydance is preparing a bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery... potentially bringing together two storied Hollywood studios and reshaping the entertainment industry....The audacious bid, coming just weeks after Skydance bought Paramount Global... bringing together DC Comics superheroes like Superman and Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants, science-fiction franchises like The Matrix and Star Trek and two major news networks, CBS News and CNN."
Warner Bros Discovery is estimated to have a $30 billion debt load, and Paramount-Skydance has an estimated $12 billion debt load, so the merger, while bringing together a huge platform of entertainment properties, also combines a gigantic pile of debt that is larger than the GPD of many countries.
The best PS3 superhero games? – Hardcore Gamer MSN
- Jurassic World Rebirth at $861,944,197 worldwide - released July 2
- F1 at $621,102,895 worldwide - released Jun 27
- Superman at $614,444,108 worldwide - released July 11
- Fantastic Four at $515,664,437 worldwide - released July 25
- Weapons at $254,415,584 worldwide - released August 8
What's left of 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
Independent Publishers Group contacting comics shops as new distribution player – Comicsbeat
DC's Red Hood series gets canned – Bounding into Comics
Reading for pleasure continues decline – LA School Report
Even as children’s publishing explodes with new talent and excitement from fans online, new distractions and diversions are precipitously driving down the share of young people who read for fun....Over the course of two generations, from 1984 to 2023, the proportion of 13-year-olds who said they "never or hardly ever" read for fun on their own time has nearly quadrupled, from just 8% to 31%...."
Where's Gotham for next Batman movie? Not in USA – Manchester UK News MSN
Legal battle between the new Diamond Distributors owners and comic book publishers intensifies in court – Bleedingcool
Apparently, to properly follow the bankruptcy laws in order to claim the comic book inventory sitting in Diamond's warehouses, the publishers (135 altogether) were supposed to file certain forms in Maryland (where Diamond is/was) but having failed to do so, Diamond's new owners can claim the stock and sell it off. How this works out in court is a different matter, but according to the Bleeding Cool article (which contains a good deal of detail) the new Diamond owners are systematically making legal actions against the 135 publishers.
Rare Marvel Comics Collection coming to auction – Newspoint (auction at Richard Winterton Auctioneers)
"Long lost" vampire comic book by Anne Rice is brought back to publishing – MSN Nerdist
So why did the final issue of Queen of the Damned never come out? Innovation Comics went into bankruptcy because of the big “comics crunch” of the mid-’90s. This rapid decline in comic book sales, largely due to the ’90s speculator boom, led to the demise of many publishers. This happened just before the final issue of Queen of the Damned went to print in 1994...."
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