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One year after the big relaunch, DC wanted to give its superhero line another jolt by borrowing a gimmick from the glory days of 1994 and releasing "zero" issues of all of the "New 52" titles. In terms of average sales, this means an increase of more than 1,000 units compared to August. Of course, these are sales to retailers, and increases based on this type of gimmick never stick around for subsequent issues, but the fact that retailers have enough faith in DC to support the initiative to this degree is good news, certainly.

The AVENGERS VS X-MEN crossover built towards its finale in September (though the actual final issue slipped to the next month). And - well, yes, that's about it in terms of notable releases in September. Schedules don't get much quieter than this, and with many of the titles also on their way to an imminent relaunch, the main points of interest on this month's chart really involve seeing how recent launches are getting on.

Almost certainly due to the news that The Daily Planet was long-ago outstripped by The Beat in terms of superhero coverage (suck it, Perry...

Something which totally skipped me at NYCC, presumably due to being a thousand miles away from it, was the reveal of some Cliff Chiang's...

Yesterday's victory in the Joe Shuster case has definitely left WB looking to jump on a lot of movie-related stuff, including, a Justice League...

By Jeff Trexler In the book of Genesis, Esau sells his birthright to his younger brother Jacob for some lentil soup. Yesterday, a judge ruled that...

It's being reported that Warner Bros have won a court case which will determine who owns the copyright to Superman, meaning they will retain...

Aside from the next round of cancellations (which wasn't a total surprise), there was only one piece of new business in DC's January solicitations:...

In the January solicits, DC has announced the final issues of Blue Beetle, Legion Lost, Grifter and Frankenstein.  On at least one occasion, there was a question...

by Marc-Oliver Frisch August was another strong month for DC -- that's always worth pointing out, given the rather dire numbers of the publisher's comic-book...

The last day of New York Comic-Con was a day of relative peace and tranquillity, unless you were Dan Slott in which case it was...

There was absolutely no new news in the planned part of the Dan DiDio / Jim Lee panel at NYCC.  When the Q&A starts,...