23 h. ago Superman No 1 sells for $9.12m, becoming most expensive comic ever sold

The pristine copy of Superman No 1, the character’s first solo title from 1939, was discovered in an attic in California last year A copy of Superman No 1 that was discovered in an attic in California last year has become the world’s most expensive comic book after selling for US$9.12m (£6.96m, A$14.14m).Superman No 1 was published in 1939 and was the Man of Steel’s first solo title. It marked the first time a character that debuted in a comic book had their own title devoted entirely to them. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago From a celebrity engagement to a trip to space: The Beano review of 2025

Beanofy Unwrapped is a special eight-page pull-out in this week’s Beano

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3 d. ago Alan Carr, Katy Perry and Taylor Swift to feature in Beano review of the year

Special edition Beano comic marks the biggest moments of 2025.

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3 d. ago The Traitors winner Alan Carr becomes cover star for Beano 'Unwrapped' 2025

The iconic comic has released a special edition round-up of 2025's biggest stories, with some huge names featuring.

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8 d. ago I'm A Celeb's Ruby Wax blasts 'trash' hotel she’s been put up in by ITV bosses

I'm A Celeb 2025 star and comic Ruby Wax had only landed in Australia a few hours earlier when she hit out at her accommodation ITV put her in for being "trash"

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8 d. ago Adulthood review – Alex Winter’s nastily comic crime noir as family intrigue over division of assets

Skeletons rattle and good people turn bad in ruthless tale that is very well played but not quite lethal enoughA bit of a throwback to the kind of noir-tinged black-comedy-dramas of yore where good people break very bad, this quietly ruthless film sticks to the template but throws in some new-fangled touches. It also draws on the talents of a cracking roster of supporting players, who add a substantial amount of texture and colour to the proceedings, not least among them the film’s own director Alex Winter, best known for playing Bill opposite Keanu Reeves’ Ted. In a peripheral but significant role, Winter plays a sad-sack stoner, the kind of tragic loser Bill might have grown up to be if he and Ted had never encountered George Carlin and his most excellent time machine.That said, something feels a bit undercooked here, perhaps due to Winter’s direction or Michael MB Galvin’s script, which seems to lack a little torque in the last turns of the screw. The set-up is simple enough, a q...

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2 w. ago Other People’s Fun by Harriet Lane review – darkly comic tale of envy and revenge in the Insta age

The worlds of the haves and the have-nots clash, in a toxic friendship between two women brought together by a school reunionOf all the seven deadly sins, envy is the last to be commodified. You can understand why – unlike lust, anger or even sloth, it’s not something to admit to. In his Allegory with Venus and Cupid, Bronzino depicted envy as an ugly green hag, clutching her head and howling impotently; now Instagram has allowed anyone online to gain access to images of the lifestyles of those richer, prettier and luckier than ourselves.Ruth, the narrator of Harriet Lane’s third novel, Other People’s Fun, is corroded by it. Alone, her marriage over, her daughter grown and her freelance work as dull as it is low paid, she is that most dangerous of characters: an overlooked middle-aged woman with nothing to lose. When she bumps into beautiful, stupid and entitled Sookie at a school reunion, she reconnects with her teenage self “and all her violent desires”. Having flown und...

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2 w. ago Sainsbury's Christmas advert 2025: BFG returns to save online food deliveries from thieving rotters

When there’s something hungry in your neighbourhood, who ya gonna call?

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3 w. ago 10 of the coolest things we saw at MCM London Comic Con 2025

10 of the coolest things we saw at MCM London Comic Con 2025  Shortlist

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