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Marvel's svp of sales David Gabriel has  confirmed that STAR WARS #1 will sell 1 million copies.  And already my inbox is jammed with missives...

Among the information revealed by the disastrous Sony documents leak, of most interest to comics types is a series of emails in which Sony and Marvel discussed a Spidey crossover. . This was widely rumored earlier this year, and yep it was true. Studio head Amy Pascal and Sony Pictures president Doug Belgrad discussed an offer from Marvel to produce a new trilogy of Spider-man movies, and a possible appearances for the webslinger in Captain America: Civil War. But alas:

  By Kyle Pinion Today, Marvel resumed their semi-regular "Next Big Thing" conference calls with comics press, focusing this iteration on the upcoming Ant-Man launch in...

The Inhumans are the IT team for Marvel in 2015! You'll recall that an Inhumans movie was announced for 2018, and until then, Marvel...

By Kyle Pinion I love Matt Fraction, David Aja and Annie Wu's Hawkeye. It's by far my favorite monthly (which I realize is a stretch...

Al Ewing and Alan Davis are uniting for three Ultron Forever one-shots this April. The tales will go all "five years later" with the...

Exhibit A: A Howard the Duck cameo at the end of the years #1 movie Exhibit B: Marvel brings out a Howard the Duck Omnibus, reprinting the masterful comics by Steve Gerber, Gene Colan, Val Mayerik and more. It doesn't take much detective work to figure out that a new Howard the Duck ONGOING COMIC was on the way. And it's by Chip Zdarsky and Joe Quinones , EW reveals. Did I ever think I would be writing a story about Chip Zdarsky writing for Marvel? Writing Howard the Duck? No, I did not.

The post-Guardians partnership between Marvel and Jim Starlin continues with the second original graphic novel in a proposed trilogy about Thanos the purple skinned Mad Titan created by Starlin. THANOS: THE INFINITY RELATIVITY OGN comes out in June. While standalone graphic novels were once rare at Marvel they've gotten into the pool with the Starlin books, and some introductory books aimed at beginning (as in not experts in Marvel continuity) readers. The first book in the trilogy, Thanos: The Infinity Revelation, made the NY Times bestseller list, so it probably did all right.

BY JASON ENRIGHT — Hello Sales Chart Analyzers! In October, there were a lot of books. So to start, let’s break down the numbers a bit. An interesting trend to look at this month is how variant numbers affect the sales. Several titles benefitted from being included in one or more of Marvel’s themed variant programs this month. In October, Marvel had 3 variant themes, the Anti-Bullying variants, Deadpool 75th anniversary variants and Hasbro toy variants. Many of these issues were in the middle of an arc and normally would have suffered standard attrition of -1 to -3%, but due to these variant programs they got a nice +3 to +5% sales boost. Variants are one of many incentive programs that companies use to boost sales. Recently Marvel and DC have been doing these themed variants across multiple books and they definitely seem to be working. Whether or not, they are actually good for comic sales in the long term is another question entirely. What do you think of variants? Let’s discuss it in the comments below. For now let’s dive into the numbers.

It's the final issue of Elektra, the first issue of Darth Vader, more Guardians of the Galaxy—teaming up this time—and an Avengers original graphic...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xliy6ZZd1Ik&feature=youtu.be In case you had forgotten that Groot and Rocket Raccoon were Disney's huge breakout stars in 2014, they released a trailer of the gentle...