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Mondo celebrates 10 years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with new posters

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Mondo has joined in with the tenth anniversary celebrations of the Marvel Cinematic Universe by unveiling Marvel Studios: The First Ten Years, a selection of poster artwork currently on display at the Mondo Gallery in Austin, Texas and feature new artwork for Iron Man, Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: […]

Fantastic Four Villains take centre stage this December with Marvel variant covers

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In celebration of the upcoming wedding between Ben Grimm and Alicia Masters, Marvel has announced that it will celebrate over five decades of the First Family will a series of variant covers featuring the team’s most memorable villains. Check out the first eight Fantastic Four Villain variant covers here… Look for Marvel’s Fantastic Four Villain […]

Marvel celebrates landmark Avengers #700 with David Finch variant cover

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Earth’s Mightiest Heroes reaches its landmark 700th issue this November, and Marvel is marking the occasion with an all-new variant cover for Avengers #700 from legendary artist David Finch. Check it out here… There’s no rest for the heroes who protect Earth…not even when it comes to the Avengers! Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will find themselves […]

Evangeline Lilly would like to see Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel leading a team of female Avengers

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Late last year it was reported that a number of Marvel’s female stars had been chatting to Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige about the possibility of an all-female team-up movie. Although it has since been claimed by Thor: Ragnarok star Tessa Thompson that the conversation was “an offhand thing” and blown out of proportion, talk of […]

Marvel Battle Lines comic book variant covers revealed

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This October, Marvel Comics is celebrating the much-anticipated launch of Marvel Battle Lines – the collectible card battling mobile game created by Nexon – with a series of variant covers showcasing over two dozen in-game cards featuring striking images of some of the most popular Marvel Super Heroes. Check them out here and click on […]

Marvel to explore the origin of the 1,000,000 BC Ghost Rider in Avengers #7

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Last year, Marvel Legacy introduced Odin and his Prehistoric Avengers to critical acclaim, and now Marvel has announced that it is returning to 1,000,000 BC in Avengers #7 to tell the origin of the flaming woolly mammoth-riding original Ghost Rider! Check out the cover and some first-look artwork here… “Fans have been intrigued by the […]

Disney and Marvel planning “a new franchise beyond Avengers”

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Bob Iger has revealed that Disney and Marvel have plans for a successor franchise to the Avengers. With Avengers: Infinity War currently dominating the box office, well on its way to being one of highest grossing movies in history, it’s hard to imagine Disney ever wanting to retire the franchise. While Disney isn’t ruling out […]

Marvel’s Murder Problem

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Ben Robins on Marvel’s murder problem… With the most celebrated of all the cinematic universes very much knocking on the door of its 10th anniversary, there’s all sorts of retrospective business going round. And something that becomes more and more glaringly obvious within the Marvel world, especially moving forward, is its attitude towards death. Well, […]

How Deadpool Could Bridge the Gap Between the MCU and Fox’s X-Men Universe

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Ben Robins on how Deadpool could bridge the gap between the MCU and Fox’s X-Men Universe… Forgive me if we’ve all already had this thought (and I’m fairly sure we all, at some stage, have) but, this whole ‘different universes’ world-building business is a bit of a ball-ache isn’t it? Most casual superhero fans seem […]