[SPEAKER_00]: Marvel's Spider-Man Superman crossover announces creative teams, DC Beats Marvel, Eisner Awards named 2026 Judges.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is comic book club news for January 16, 2026.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hot on the heels of DC Superman Spider-Man Marvel has announced their half of the crossover with the April Day Buying Spider-Man Superman.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the creative teams of the book include Jeff Johns delivering his first Marvel work in over two decades and Brad Meltzer writing for Marvel for the first time ever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Meltzer will actually write the lead story alongside Artist Pepe Loraz featuring the title characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: In addition, Dan Slot and Marcus Martín will tackle Spider-Man Noir meeting Golden Age Superman.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jeff Johnson, Gary Franks, and the Super and Spider-Man families against each other.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jason Aaron and Russell Dauderman bring on the mighty Thor and Wonder Woman.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who is Simonson and Todd Knock?
[SPEAKER_00]: Pit steal against Hobgoblin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Joe Kelly and Humberto Raymo's crossover Gwen Stacy and Lottalang.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Brian Michael Bendis and Sarah Pachele are back at Miles Morales.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who meets Superman?
[SPEAKER_00]: to be clear.
[SPEAKER_00]: Spider-Man, Superman No.
[SPEAKER_00]: 1, hit stores on April 15, just at time to report it on your taxes.
[SPEAKER_00]: For the first time since we've been reporting on this, DC Comics is beaten Marvel, but it comes to share of the comic book market.
[SPEAKER_00]: Her ICV2, DC Snag 32.6% of the market share in the fourth quarter of 2025, coming in at number one versus Marvel's 29.6% market share.
[SPEAKER_00]: While it's still a relatively tight margin, it does mark a big change not just for the previous quarter, but from pretty much every quarter before that as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is in line with what we saw on single issue sales.
[SPEAKER_00]: With D.C.'s absolute universe and Batman title selling blockbuster numbers, while civil marbles eventized comics, including the X-Men Age of Revelation event, do not quite connected in the same way.
[SPEAKER_00]: As for other publishers, pretty much everything stayed the same, though Kodansha hopped into the top 10 in place of Titan Comics.
[SPEAKER_00]: The judges for this year's Eisner Wars, the most prestigious awarded comics have been announced.
[SPEAKER_00]: Per the beat with the awards under a due administrator, a new line of judges, who will select the nominees placed on the ballot, has been chosen as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: They include journalist, Tiffany Bab, librarian, Jerry Deere, teacher and editor, Dr. Randy Duncan, bookstore owner, Katie Pride, no relation to the ex-man, and comic book writer, editor and essayist Regina Elsoyer, congrats to all the judges.
[SPEAKER_00]: and just kidding.
[SPEAKER_00]: For comic book club news, I'm Alex Alvin, and a brief programming note.
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