The Pull List: Clayface Wins the Weekend, Doomsday Spot, DC January Solicits - October 26, 2026
Stories dated Sunday, October 25 and the weekend before. Clayface opens at number one, Avengers: Doomsday gets a new spot, and DC's January solicits land.
This Day in Comic Book History: October 26
2011: Wolverine and the X-Men #1 (Marvel)
On sale October 26, 2011 (marvel.com; comicbooks.com). Jason Aaron writes, Chris Bachalo draws. The post-Schism series where Wolverine runs the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. Cover date December 2011, $3.99.
2011: Spaceman #1 (Vertigo)
Released October 26, 2011 (Wikipedia; Biff Bam Pop's Wednesday Run, October 26, 2011). Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso. A nine-issue limited series about Orson, a man NASA engineered for long-term spaceflight, set after the collapse of civilization. Dave Johnson drew the cover.
2016: Wonder Woman 75th Anniversary Special #1 (DC)
On sale Wednesday, October 26, 2016 (dc.com; VerseDB). A one-shot anthology celebrating seventy-five years of Wonder Woman, with a Jim Lee cover and a long list of writers and artists including Gail Simone, Greg Rucka, Cliff Chiang and Adam Hughes.
Sources: marvel.com, comicbooks.com, Wikipedia, Biff Bam Pop, dc.com, VerseDB.
Update: Clayface Wins the Weekend With $24.5M
Update: Last week we reported $3.5 million in Thursday previews and a $20 to $25 million weekend forecast. The result: Clayface won the weekend with $24.5 million, the low end of the forecast and still number one. Worldwide it opened to $43 million, which roughly covers its reported budget. Audiences gave it an A- CinemaScore, the grade moviegoers hand out as they leave the theater.
The competition: Nathan Fielder's You Can See Everything (A24) took $19.5 million in weekend two, up 25% from the weekend before (about a quarter more money) as it added theaters, for $45 million domestic. Bleeding Cool expects it to take the top spot this coming weekend. Street Fighter fell 72% to $8.6 million, meaning it earned about 72% less than the weekend before.
A number one opening and a solid audience grade is what gets people looking at the Clayface books. Clayface: Celebrity Dirt is the series to watch.
Source: Bleeding Cool, Oct 25, 2026 (Jeremy Konrad)
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James Gunn: The DCU Is About Telling "That Story"
On Threads Sunday, James Gunn agreed with a fan who said the DCU is built around telling stories first. He said that approach lets DC offer different styles and points of view, including stories that put villains up front like The Penguin and Clayface. His words: "I dislike the idea that individual stories aren't meaningful unless they lead to something else."
He pointed to Star Wars as the model, a universe that has told stories across decades and media without each one setting up the next. He named Superman and Man of Tomorrow as part of "The Superman Saga," but said those links don't mean other stories only exist to set up later events. He hopes people watch Clayface as a fun horror movie in its own right. Bleeding Cool's Ray Flook sets it against the MCU, where he says following along can take homework, and cites Lanterns as a series that worked on its own.
Smart messaging the week Clayface opens. A movie that doesn't come with a reading list is an easier sell to the casual crowd, and the casual crowd fills the seats.
Source: Bleeding Cool, Oct 25, 2026 (Ray Flook)
Update: New Avengers: Doomsday TV Spot
Update: Last week it was the World Series preview. Now Marvel has released a new 31-second TV spot, reported by Bleeding Cool Saturday night. It mixes footage from the CinemaCon debut with new material, including Scott Lang and a debate among three Captain Americas, and shows three teams standing together. Bleeding Cool says those teams are only assumed to be the Avengers, X-Men and Fantastic Four.
Anthony and Joe Russo direct. Kevin Feige, Louis D'Esposito and Jonathan Schwartz produce. The cast includes Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth and Pedro Pascal. The film opens exclusively in theaters December 18, a little under eight weeks out. Every new look sends people back to the Avengers books and the older team-up issues.
Source: Bleeding Cool, Oct 24, 2026 (Kaitlyn Booth)
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Daredevil: Born Again Season 3: Who's Back, Who's Out
Carrie-Anne Moss told Entertainment Weekly (via Bleeding Cool, Friday) that Jeri Hogarth will not return for Daredevil: Born Again season three. Finn Jones is confirmed to return as Danny Rand, Iron Fist, revealed at New York Comic-Con. Elodie Yung's return as Elektra is a report: Bleeding Cool points to on-set photos of her with Charlie Cox. Season three is the show's final season.
Moss played Jeri, the lawyer who hires Jessica Jones, in Jessica Jones, and bridged Daredevil season two and The Defenders. She also said she and Krysten Ritter are developing a film called Claire: "Krysten Ritter and I are like besties."
Iron Fist and Elektra are the names to watch, and the Frank Miller Daredevil run is the shelf that moves when this show is in the news.
Source: Bleeding Cool, Oct 23, 2026 (Tom Chang)
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Voice Actor Eric Bauza Dies at 46
His family announced on Instagram that Eric Bauza passed away suddenly. Bleeding Cool reported it Sunday night. Born in Toronto on December 7, 1979, Bauza broke through in 2003 taking over Stimpy from Billy West on Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon."
He voiced Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and won three Emmys for Looney Tunes Cartoons, Bugs Bunny Builders and Teen Titans Go! Comic fans know him from Prime Video's Invincible (D.A. Sinclair and Magnattack) and the film Batman Ninja. Other credits include DuckTales, Muppet Babies, Bob's Burgers, Avatar: Seven Havens and the 2026 film Coyote vs. Acme. Our condolences to his family and everyone who worked with him.
Source: Bleeding Cool, Oct 25, 2026 (Ray Flook)
Collectibles: DC's January 2027 Solicits
Absolute Black Canary #1 (Pornsak Pichetshote, Belén Ortega): January 20, $4.99, variant $5.99. That is $1 more, or 20% over cover price. Green Lantern: Doomed Cosmos #1 (Elseworlds, Dan Watters and Kyle Hotz): January 20, $4.99, foil $7.99. Superboy-Prime Special #1 (Joshua Williamson, Dan Mora): January 27, $5.99, foil $8.99, which is $3 more, about 50% over cover price. DC Power: Black Lightning 50th Anniversary Special #1: January 27, $4.99, with a glow-in-the-dark variant.
Facsimiles: Tales of the Green Lantern Corps #1 and Gotham City Sirens #1 on January 6, and Watchmen #4 on January 27, each $3.99 with foil and sketch variants.
Absolute Black Canary #1 is the book to get ordered. Every first issue in that line gets noticed, and the facsimiles put a key book on the shelf for under four dollars.
Source: Bleeding Cool, Oct 23, 2026 (Rich Johnston)
Rebellion Marks 50 Years of 2000 AD
2000 AD 50th Anniversary Special: $10.99, Brian Bolland cover, stories from John Wagner, Robbie Morrison, Ian Edginton and Pat Mills, art from Dan Cornwell, Simon Fraser, Mike Perkins and Ian Culbard. Judge Dredd Megazine #500: 100 pages, $14.99 (about 15 cents a page: $14.99 divided by 100 pages), Stewart K. Moore cover, with a double-length Dark Judges story featuring Anthrax's Scott Ian and Charlie Benante, who created the new character Judge Anthrax.
Also: 2000 AD: A Visual History 1977-2027 HC by Scott Montgomery, $79.99, January 27, with art from Brian Bolland, Dave Gibbons, Kevin O'Neill and Carlos Ezquerra, and Judge Dredd: Compact Crimes Vol. 1 TP, $12.99, January 27. An anniversary year is when readers go looking for Dredd's deep back catalog.
Source: Bleeding Cool, Oct 24, 2026 (Rich Johnston)
The Sales Chart: Midnight Still Leads
How to read it: these numbers are an index, not a count of copies. The top seller that week is set to 100, and every other book is scored against it: that book's sales divided by the top seller's sales, times 100. If the number two book shows 93.67, it sold about 93.7% as many copies as number one, so the two were nearly tied. The data is store sales, not publisher orders, from 600+ comic shops through Prana Direct Market Solutions (Manage Comics and Comic Shop Assistant systems), for October 13 to 19.
1. Midnight Spider-Man #1 (Marvel) 100. 2. Midnight X-Men #1 (Marvel) 93.67. 3. Amazing Spider-Man #1001 (Marvel) 89.15, about 89% of the top seller. 4. Venom #1 (Marvel) 84.91. 5. Doom All-On-One #1 (Marvel) 73.24, about 73% of the top seller. Midnight Fantastic Four #1 is at number nine, and DC lands Teen Titans #2, Doom Patrol #2 and Legion of Super-Heroes #2 in the top ten.
Marvel's Midnight launch is still setting the pace.
Source: Bleeding Cool, Oct 25, 2026 (Rich Johnston), Top 400 for Oct 13-19