Comic Connect sold a mint condition Action Comics #1 for $3.25m.
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Clueless Hero: The travesty of levelling up
Clueless Hero is set around a fictional video game and follows not only the hero but the lives of the game’s developers and the people who work for the game.
Goodman Games including free Conan novels with purchases
Goodman Games have come up with another way to tempt you with Robert E. Howard’s adventure stories.
Free comics in the Medibang Manga comic bundle
Fanatical, the Fandom owned retailer, has a Manga comic bundle. You can get over 9,700 pages of comics for just £12.95. The usual price would be £239.72.
Competition: Win Adler volume one
Madame Curie has invented a new secret weapon that attracts Ayesha and her assassin Carmilla. Adler and her team of determined women once again have to mobilise to stop her.
Andi Ewington shares a hilarious preview of the “RPGs for Pets” book Campaigns & Companions
British comic book writer Andi Ewington has shared a preview of the forthcoming D&D-inspired Campaigns & Companions.
Villains with sympathetic backstories
Did Tolkien do this first? The dark lord has a Dark Lord!
The Gollancz Festival goes virtual with Gollancz@Home
The free event will be a chance to hear from Ben Aaronovitch, Joanne Harris, Joe Abercrombie, Brandon Sanderson, Garth Nix, Nalini Singh, M. John Harrison, and Gollancz’s 2021 debut authors.
Best comics of the year: Boom! on Humble Bundle
There’s $540 worth of some of the most talked-about comic books available in the deal. The first tier is yours for about a buck.
ExtraOrdinary: Preview V.E. Schwab’s new series
New York Times bestseller V.E. Schwab has a new comic book series called ExtraOrdinary, due to launch in May and is set in the same universe as the Villain’s series.
