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A comic book holy grail discovered by three brothers who were sorting through their late mother’s belongings in their family’s Northern California home. Last holiday season, the family unearthed a treasure trove. Her mother had kept her vintage comic books for decades “hidden in the attic under layers of flimsy, faded newspaper and cobwebs.” ​ “They were in their 50s and 60s, and their mother always told them she had an expensive comic book collection, but she never showed them,” said Ron Allen, vice president of Heritage Auctions. He added with a smile, “This is a twist on the old…

Skybound and Image Comic, in partnership with Scott Dunbier’s Act 4 Publishing, today released a preview of the art for Mike Mignola’s Hellboy in Hell Book 2 Artist’s Edition. This oversized hardcover book, displaying Mignola’s unforgettable works in their original 11″ x 17″ artboard size, will be available in stores this spring. Mignola is the acclaimed creator of Hellboy and one of the most famous comic book creators of our time. Before Mignola’s explosion of creator-owned work, his career was already established with great work on DC and Marvel characters, including the acclaimed DC event series “Cosmic Odyssey.” Hellboy immediately…

The digital comic world is once again heating up with the announcement that InkyPen, an all-you-can-read service centered on distribution via game platforms, will debut on Steam on November 18th. This move has been teased in the past, but no release date was announced. Subscriptions for all platforms are $7.99 or local equivalent. InkyPen, a small technology company based in Norway, sells comics on its website and on the Nintendo Switch platform, partnering with publishers such as Dark Horse, IDW, Kodansha, and Dynamite. Steam’s Inky Pen app offers cross-platform support, so existing users can carry over their reading progress and…

A month after acquiring the license for Hasbro’s Jem and the Holograms, BOOM! Studios has revealed that it has also acquired the comic rights to My Little Pony. Publisher Michael Kelly broke the news to Publishers Weekly, saying that he plans to release new comics based on the Friendship is Magic series, which ran from 2010 to 2019, as well as deluxe editions of older works. Created by Bonnie Zacherle in 1982, the My Little Pony series revolves around talking horses in the magical world of Equestria. In addition to its target audience of young girls, Friendship is Magic, created…

During New York Comic-Con, Warner Bros. Animation hosted “Art Night: Batman in Animation,” a panel where top artists and creators discussed past and current Batman animated projects. The Beat had the opportunity to speak with panelists including James Tucker (Executive Producer and Showrunner, Batman: Caped Crusader), Juan Meza-Leon (Director, Aztec Batman: Clash of the Empires), Mike Ross (Executive Producer and Showrunner, Batfam), and Simon J. Smith (Executive Producer, Batwheels). Read the full interview below, and stay tuned for more coverage from Ross and the voice cast of the Batfam animated series. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.…

In case you didn’t know, today is Godzilla Day, celebrating the Japanese premiere of the first Godzilla movie in 1954. To celebrate this special, IDW has announced details for the first-ever Godzilla tabletop role-playing game, exclusively courtesy of GamesRadar. More details in the official press release below: Join G-Force and battle the greatest monsters of all time when IDW Games releases the first-ever Godzilla tabletop role-playing game! Launching next March on a Kickstarter campaign, Godzilla: Role-Playing Game reunites Warhammer gaming legends Jarvis Johnson, Mark A. Latham, and Gab Thorpe for their first co-produced tabletop game. Godzilla places a team of…

For me, horror comics are something I work on all year round. Still, this year’s Halloween was special as The Beat had the chance to speak with independent creator Jonathan Chance about his spooky anthology Never by Night. Two volumes have been released, and a third volume is currently in print. Each volume contains unforgettable stories that will leave you wanting to read the next one. Chance was able to give Beat an insight into his very personal journey into comics, what makes scary stories good, and what it’s like to be an independent creator. This interview has been edited…

Image credit: IDW The spies attempt to escape with data that Starfleet is desperately trying to protect, but Miller and his colleagues are determined to stop them at all costs. Of course, the price of being a redshirt member of Starfleet is usually very high… This is a really great series. While the number of cast members initially introduced was overwhelming, the cast is now on a much more manageable scale thanks to the disposable nature of the Redshirts. Most of this problem is occurring in a single location, where there is a fast-paced battle, and no one seems able…

When it comes to books that have been read over the years, Violator by Alan Moore, Bert Sears, Greg Capullo, Mark Pennington, Steve Oliff & Orioptix, and Tom Orzechowski probably isn’t at the top of anyone’s list. It’s unlikely to be on anyone’s radar. But maybe that’s the way it should be. An over-the-top action thriller that firmly presses your tongue. Early image books are often ignored for style rather than content. Artists, mostly branching out with their own companies for the first time, created visually appealing material that may not have been the best written material. Some ideas are…

Saint Seiya DARK WING Vol. 1 Author: Masami Kurumada Writer: Kenji Saito Artist: Shinshu UedaPublisher: Titan Manga (print version)Translation: Motoko Tamamuro, Jonathan Clements Author: Yousef MohammedPublication date: September 16, 2025Rating: 15+Genre: Fantasy Saint Seiya Darkwing is the latest spin-off of the fantasy constellation manga series created by Kenji Saito and Shinshu Ueda. Darkwing is a unique take on the series, spotlighting high school students who discover that they are the reincarnations of the Gold Saints and Judges of the Underworld. I didn’t like how the main character changed in the middle of the story. We switch from Shoichiro to his…