Marvel & DC Lose Superhero Trademark- Daily LITG, 29th September 2024

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Marvel & DC Lose Superhero Trademark- Daily LITG, 29th September 2024

Marvel and DC Comics losing their rights to the super hero trademark after fifty years was the most-read article on Bleeding Cool yesterday.

Published Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:32:09 -0500
by Rich Johnston
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Article Summary

  • Marvel and DC lose their "super hero" trademark after fifty years, stirring massive industry buzz.
  • Absolute Batman #1 and Jonathan Hickman's latest titles dominate comic book sales charts.
  • Top ten stories include Hasbro's Venompool figure and a preview of DC's new crisis event.
  • Bleeding Cool highlights notable pop culture moments and comic book auctions from past years.

Marvel and DC Comics losing their rights to the super hero trademark after fifty years was the most-read article on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Welcome to Lying In The Gutters, the daily runaround for the biggest stories the day before – as well as over the past six years. Founded fifteen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip a further fifteen years before that, Bleeding Cool has become one of the longest-standing and most well-known pop culture websites around. The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and possibly the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. And maybe you just have.

Marvel and DC losing the Super Hero Trademark was the most-read story yesterday

  1. US Court States Marvel And DC Have Lost Their Super Hero Trademark 
  2. Hasbro Unleashed Venompool with New Target Exclusive Marvel Legends
  3. Absolute Batman #1 Sells 250,000, Here's The Second Printing Cover
  4. Jonathan Hickman Tops Bleeding Cool Bestseller List With Two
  5. Always Sunny S17 Finale Info Revealed (If You Can Read "Charlie Day") 
  6. DC's I Know What You Did Last Crisis #1 Preview: The Return of Didio  
  7. Another Look Inside Absolute Wonder Woman #1 (Spoilers) 
  8. Absolute Power #4 Preview: Batman vs. Superman Again  
  9. Build the Red Rocket Diner from Fallout with Mattel's New MEGA Set
  10. Hasbro Reveals Three Special Edition Board Games For 2024 Holidays

And a few other comic book stories you might enjoy.

LITG one year ago, The Scalping of Disney Lorcana Chapter Two

Disney Lorcana Credit: Ravensburger 
  1. Local Card Shops Are Already Ruining Disney Lorcana Chapter Two
  2. Hasbro Debuts a New Series of Transformers with the Armorizers
  3. Cast Lightning with the New NERF x Magic: The Gathering Blaster
  4. Jonathan Hickman Writes A New Ultimate Origin For Kang (Spoilers)
  5. Today's Best Laid Plans Of Mice And X-Men (XSpoilers)
  6. Pokemon GO Announces October 2023 Spotlight Hours
  7. Mattel Reveals Masters of the Universe Skeletor x VeeFriends 2-Pack
  8. The Wedding Of Emma Frost And Tony Stark Is Not How It Was Pictured
  9. Agatha Harkness Gets A Brand New Darkhold (Spoilers)
  10. Rick and Morty/Justin Roiland: Adult Swim Doing Right by New Voices

A few other comics stories you might prefer

LITG two years ago, Ghost Rider Crashes in top ten stories

Credit: Hasbro
  1. Marvel Legends Ghost Rider HasLabs Stalls Out, No Early Bird Special
  2. Avatar: The Last Airbender Reveals Live-Action Series Full Cast
  3. Yveltal Raid Guide for Pokemon GO Players: September 2022
  4. Mystery Science Theater 3000 Set to Celebrate First Halloween Special
  5. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #100 Preview: 100th Issue Celebration
  6. Time Travel To Be Banned At DC Comics Going Forward? (Spoilers)
  7. Harley Quinn Animated Series: Legion Of Bats Opening Will Be Legendary
  8. Star Trek Spaceship Named After Computer Programmer, Not Adult Actress
  9. The Sandman S02: Neil Gaiman Explains Why No News at Netflix's Tudum
  10. The Fallout Of Warworld Across The DC Universe, Today (Spoilers)
  11. The Debut of Fiction House's Ranger Comics, Up for Auction
  12. Something Is Killing The Children's David Mack Pack Is Back, For NYCC
  13. The Expanse Meets Paper Girls in Lucky 555, a Queer YA Graphic Novel
  14. Julio Anta & Gabi Mendez's Bull Hill Graphic Novels for Six Figures
  15. Yet Another Week In The Life Of Graphic Novel, Gender Queer
  16. Time Travel To Be Banned At DC Comics Going Forward? (Spoilers)
  17. The Fallout Of Warworld Across The DC Universe, Today (Spoilers)
  18. Big Sneak Preview Of Marc Silvestri Batman/Joker: The Deadly Duo
  19. Robin Gets A Robin Of His Own – Introducing Sparrow To The DCU
  20. Two Black Adam Collections With Pretty Much The Same Cover, Out Today
  21. Harley Quinn's Opening in The Daily LITG, 27th September 2022
  22. Kevin O'Neill Brings Back Bonjo For 2000AD With Garth Ennis
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LITG three years ago, The Last Of Mephisto

  1. The Last of Us: HBO Releases Image of Pascal's Joel & Ramsey's Ellie
  2. Mephisto's Spider-Man One More Day Plan Finally Revealed (Spoilers)
  3. Family Guy: Mike Henry Wishes "Cleveland Brown" Arif Zahir Best Wishes
  4. Marvel Cancels Non-Stop Spider-Man, Replaces With Savage Spider-Man
  5. This Flash / Batwoman Crossover Will Be Tough for Armageddon to Beat
  6. Major Printing and Distribution Problems Hitting Comics Industry
  7. Superman Canceled From The Justice League Over Politics (Spoilers)
  8. What If…? Episode 8 Earns Ultron Very Concerning Key Art Poster
  9. McFarlane Toys Pre-orders Land with Red Hood, Batgirl, and Batman
  10. The Sandman Key Art Posters Introduce Us to Dream, Death & Desire
  11. The '70s Cold War Mod Vibe of Gold Key Scooby Doo Comics, at Auction
  12. Vault Comics Reverses Diamond's Variant Cover/Returnable Policy
  13. Euripides to Release First New OGN in 2400 Years at Image Comics
  14. Cates, Simone, Walker & Hamner Praise Project Wildfire on FOC Day
  15. Z2 Comics and Blue Note Records to Make Beautiful Music Together
  16. Early Green Arrow and Aquaman More Fun Comics, Up for Auction
  17. Lesbian Viking Comic Heathen Gets An Omnibus, and More, In 2022
  18. How High Will These Spawn CGC 9.8 Comics Go At Auction Today?
  19. Star Wars Droids #1 From Dark Horse Taking Bids At Heritage Auctions
  20. Lois Lane Gains A New Member Of The Family In Checkmate #5 (Spoilers)
  21. Moon Knight Meets Spider-Man, Shang-Chi and More, Up for Auction
  22. Legion Of Forgettable Super-Villains Society is Marvel Meets Dog-Man
  23. Now Superman's Son Arrested By Police, Over Politics (Spoilers)
  24. Dynamite Launches Pantha #1 and Hell Sonja #1 In January 2022
  25. We Live Gets A Sequel Series From AfterShock Comics In 2022
  26. Jeff In The Jurassic, New Graphic Novel Trilogy by Rust's Royden Lepp
  27. A First Look at The Last of Us in Daily LITG, 27th of September 2021

LITG four years ago, SNL, Vixen and Pokémon GO

  1. Saturday Night Live Season 46: Punkie Johnson Makes SNL History
  2. Absol, Mawile, & Unown Coming To Pokémon GO… In Only One Country
  3. DC Comics – A New Look For Vixen In 2021?
  4. The Boys Season 2: Jeffrey Dean Morgan Loves Him Some Love Sausage
  5. Transformers War for Cybertron Kingdom Full Reveal from Hasbro
  6. Shiny Lapras Raid Guide For Solo Pokémon GO Trainers
  7. Riverdale Season 5 Update: Leather Masks, Wigs & Knives Sound Normal
  8. What Are the Shiny Rates For Mega Raids In Pokémon GO?
  9. That New Look – And New Name – for Poison Ivy, Revealed (Spoilers)
  10. Obscure Comics: The Dark Knight & The Dark Knight Rises Prologues
  11. Taboo of Black Eyed Peas Talks New Werewolf by Night Marvel Comic
  12. This Week, Marvel Comics #1000 Page Ties Into X Of Swords (Previews)
  13. Piranha Comics Wants To Employ Former Comic Shop Employees In London
  14. Image Comics Tell Retailers That The Scumbag is The New Deadpool
  15. Scout Comics Inks Distribution Deal with Simon & Schuster

LITG five years ago, Marvel censored Mark Waid's Captain America

And DC Comics were beginning the big returnability binge.

  1. Joker: Killer Smile and Death Of Superman to be Made Returnable by DC Comics
  2. Marvel Stopped the Presses to Remove Mark Waid's Captain America Essay From Marvel Comics #1000
  3. Asterix on the New Two-Euro Coin
  4. "Spider-Man": Sony, Disney/Marvel Set for New Tom Holland Film [Report]
  5. "Crisis": Brandon Routh "Kingdom Come" Superman Image Released
  6. When Disney Ordered Ike Perlmutter to Stop Blocking Black Panther and Captain Marvel Movies
  7. Speculator Corner: Absolute Carnage: Immortal Hulk #1, the Hot Comic Next Wednesday?
  8. Spawn #300 Second Biggest Seller in 2019 – Beating Absolute Carnage, DCeased and House Of X
  9. Dark Horse Continues Bioware's Dragon Age in New Comic Blue Wraith
  10. Marvel Shows Off Their 2099 Variants for November
  11. Marvel Zombies Renames From Respawn To Resurrection – Did Todd McFarlane Have a Word?
  12. Scott Lobdell Really Wants Red Hood's Outlaws to Be the X-Men
  13. DC First: Flash and Superman #1 Added to New Printing of Geoff Johns' Flash Omnibus Vol 1
  14. DC Comics Delays Stjepan Sejic's Harleen #2 to Give Retailers a Chance to Up Their Orders
  15. Atari & Arcade1Up Enter Into Exclusive Arcade Partnership
  16. "Rick and Morty" Season 4 Brings Shrimp Rick & Shrimp Morty? [Spoilers] (REDACTED)
  17. New Art Team for Marvel's Spider-Marriage in Black Cat Annual #1
  18. "WWE 2K20" Reveals More Info Content & Online Features
  19. Tom King's Final Word on Batman in Next Month's Batman Annual
  20. Young Avengers Relaunch in 2020 – To Replace Champions?

LITG six years ago, we lost Norm Breyfogle

Damn. He would have only been sixty.

  1. Batman Artist Norm Breyfogle Died on Monday, Aged 58
  2. Batpenis Strikes Again – DC Comics Won't Reprint Batman: Damned #1 – and #2 is Late
  3. That New Sean Gordon Murphy Series is Actually Batman: Curse of the White Knight
  4. So About That Millennium Falcon Ride Coming to Disneyland
  5. The First Official Trailer For FOX's Dark Phoenix is Here

Comic Book birthdays today.

There might be partially slightly more of a party atmosphere right now. It all depends on which state you are living in. But comics folk are still getting older and still celebrating that special date with twelve years for us as well.

  • Greg Weisman, comics writer, creator of Gargoyles TV show.
  • GWAR comics colourist Mark Dale.
  • Creator and publisher of Merrick The Sensational Elephantman, Tom Ward.
  • Michael Eury, comics journalist.
  • Ken Penders, Sonic The Hedgehog comics creator.

If you are in comics and have a birthday coming up – or you know someone who has – get in touch at richjohnston@gmail.com.

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